Word: abdullah
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...Islamic world, the tape's effect was muted. It may help those- such as President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and King Abdullah II of Jordan- who would like to argue that the war in Afghanistan is being waged against terrorists, not against Islam. But the tape was released on the eve of Eid ul-Fitr, a major holiday marking the end of Ramadan, when Arabs tend to family festivities rather than the news. Besides, the hot political issue in the past few weeks has been not the war in Afghanistan but the renewed violence between Israel and the Palestinians...
...John did not have a driver's license and was still in high school, so attending prayer services five times a day was out of the question. On Friday nights, though, he would change out of his Western clothes and attend services at the Islamic Center of Mill Valley. Abdullah Nana usually drove him there. Nana, now 23, recalls that when he first saw Walker, he stood out immediately, not simply because he was a white man in a mostly Indian congregation but also because he was "on his own," meaning already devoted to Islam and without a referral from...
...defeat of the Taliban, when and if that occurs, Afghan women will remain in a vexed position. The forces vying to take the Taliban's place are not always friendly to women. Within the Northern Alliance, there is a fundamental split between Western-minded technocrats and conservative religious figures. Abdullah Abdullah, the Alliance's media-savvy Foreign Minister, is a technocrat. In his speeches he makes sure to point out that in Alliance-held areas women go to school. He goes so far as to support women's joining the government...
...slept eight to a room on the concrete floors and ate little but bread and water, although they were allowed to roam the yard for five hours a day and occasionally punch volleyballs over a net that still hangs there. There were no beatings, says a former inmate named Abdullah. "For punishment, they'd make us chop wood," he says. Today, documents are scattered across the clerk's floor and somehow Abdullah the thief has won a job as a guard. He isn't busy. Jalalabad has neither prisoners nor courts to sentence them. Commander Zaman explains that he offered...
...Even before Sept. 11, Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al Saud, the Kingdom's de facto ruler, had undertaken a major effort to attract foreign investment and create new jobs. The Kingdom is now also revamping its school curriculum to churn out more scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs rather than religious scholars...