Word: christiane
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...converted to Islam before his death, said Islamic authorities. According to Islamic law, he would be buried in a Muslim cemetery. No, insisted Kaliammal, he would undergo Hindu rites. Both sides headed to court. But Malaysia-a multiethnic nation composed largely of Muslim Malays, Hindu Indians and Buddhist and Christian Chinese-employs a dual legal system. Muslims are subject to Shari'a law for issues such as marriage, property and death, while non-Muslims use civil courts. First, the Shari'a court ruled that Kaliammal's husband was a Muslim. Then, the civil court refused to intervene. "This court cannot...
...nation's ruling clerics prohibited interfaith marriage and prayer. The Indonesia Ulema Council also renewed an edict deeming heretical the Islamic sect Ahmadiyah, which claims up to 500,000 members. In the past year, several Ahmadiyah mosques have been forcibly closed or destroyed by mobs, as have dozens of Christian house churches. Separately, a Muslim cleric in East Java was jailed for preaching in Indonesian, as opposed to the normal Arabic. In West Java, three women are serving three-year prison terms for running Christian kindergarten classes also attended by Muslim children. "Sometimes we have to defend the community...
...HOPE AND FRUSTRATION Linus Kwame Deh was born on the floor of a mud hut. His parents divorced before he reached school age, and it was his father - a bricklayer and farmer - who raised him. Kwame means Saturday, the day he was born; Linus is his Christian, or colonial name. At school, in the lush hills of the Volta region - an area that had originally been colonized by the Germans, but later came under British rule - the young Kwame sang God Save the King and saluted the British flag. "That's the training for discipline," remembers Kwame, now 72. Along...
...meters, finishing in 2:15.30. The men were paced by a trio of second-place finishers. Junior Brian Holmquist was second in the 3000 meters with a time of 8:36.77, classmate Alex Lewis tied for second in the high jump with a jump of 1.93 meters, and senior Christian Ayers was second in the weight throw after a heave of 16.57 meters. Sophomore Neville Irani was third in the same event with a 16.06 meter toss, while junior Andrew Lipkin finished fourth in the 3000 meters in 8:41.14. No team score was kept for the event, which included...
...Staff writer Christian B. Flow can be reached at cflow@fas.harvard.edu...