Word: abdalla
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...given at the ceremony, according to the statement. In addition, the Center for Public Integrity, which fosters public-minded investigative journalism, will be awarded a special citation for “its superb investigative work in the public interest.” —Staff writer Khalid Abdalla can be reached at kabdalla@fas.harvard.edu...
...past year. ‘IN THEIR HOUSEHOLD’De Waal’s first contact with Darfur’s warring parties dates back to 1984, when he was doing Ph.D. research in Sudan.For part of his stay, the British-born activist lived with Sheikh Hilal Mohamed Abdalla “in this very remote outpost, the middle of nowhere really, in a tent.”Abdalla’s son was the head of the Janjaweed, funded by the government in the recent conflict, de Waal says.“I was living in their household...
...Majelis Mujahidin Indonesia - set up by accused terrorist leader Abu Bakar Ba'asyir to lobby for Islamic sharia law - whose members sell Osama bin Laden T shirts outside a shabby office in Yogyakarta? Or will it be the intellectual questing of the Liberal Islam Network, whose leader Ulil Abshar-Abdalla has sparked wide debate and death threats with his calls for reforms to Islam...
...important," says one caller to a Xiamen city radio show. "We must all remember that." In Indonesia, where the Muslim majority isn't forced to hide its religiosity, spirituality is still only reluctantly covered by the print media and television. "Most TV stations are too conservative," says Ulil Abshar-Abdalla, one of the country's best-known young Muslim intellectuals. "They're afraid they might lose ads or face demonstrations...
...bravura performance is at the core of the man's mystery. Is he just "the Britney Spears of Islam," as he is characterized by Ulil Abshar-Abdalla, head of Indonesia's Liberal Islam Network? Is he merely a feel-good merchant who uses religion for his commercial ends? Or is Solahuddin Wahid, vice chairman of the 40 million-member Nahdlatul Ulama, right when he says that Aa Gym's "sincerity is his strength. He's creating a society based on his words and deeds...