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These topics concern those in South Asia and those who have immigrated to and are living in the United States, said Muneer I. Ahmad '93, co-president...
...With the exception of Sri Lanka, literacy rates are 50 percent or less," said Ahmad, adding that family planning education "affects all of the Third World...
...liberated city, and there was no reason to doubt them. Almost everyone on the street last week spoke of losing a friend or family member. Resistance fighters who went to Adan Hospital, looking for five of their comrades who had been arrested, found their bodies. Said Tareq Ahmad, 23, a Kuwaiti air force sergeant serving in the resistance: "The Iraqis had drilled holes in their heads, and they had holes in their hands, feet and shoulders as if they had been crucified...
Some of the Shi'ite resistance members are believed to have been part of a secret organization set up by Iran during the Iran-Iraq war. They were there not to support the ruling family of the Emir, Sheik Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah, but to topple it. When the Emir fled the country, however, the same Shi'ites, including women in chadors, came out to demonstrate, brandishing photographs of the Emir. "You shouldn't be surprised at this," said a Western diplomat who lived in Kuwait. "In the Middle East, groups can change sides very quickly...
Believers revived the term in modern times as Muslim areas fell under Western control or influence. One of the first to do so was Muhammad Ahmad, the 19th century Mahdi who raised an Islamic insurgency against British colonialism in the Sudan in the 1880s. The Ottoman Turks declared jihad against Britain during World War I. Calls to holy war took on new urgency, and new meaning, with the creation of Israel in 1948. Since then the term has been used -- and abused -- to justify at least three regional wars plus terrorism and murder, not only against infidels but also toward...