Word: cleric
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...DIED. C.F. BEYERS NAUDE, 89, white South African cleric who reversed his support of apartheid in the early 1960s to become a leading opponent of racial segregation; in Johannesburg. Naude, a cleric in the Dutch Reformed Church, which provided religious justifications of apartheid, began to question the state's policy following a 1960 massacre of black demonstrators by police. Three years later he denounced apartheid in a sermon and was kicked out of the church; by the late '70s, the government had banned him from speaking in public and had restricted his movements. Former President Nelson Mandela eulogized Naude...
...have blinded us to the humanity of others and made us a nation of dimwits. What the Iraqis want is for us to get the hell out. Lela Knox Shanks Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S. School for Insurgency "The Lessons of Najaf" [Aug. 30] described the flip-flops of the rebellious cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi Army. Slowly but surely, Iraq is becoming a Shi'ite theocracy like that of Iran. There is absolutely nothing the U.S. can do about it. That change is due in part to the ever growing influence of Grand Ayatullah Ali Husaini Sistani, to whom...
...siege of the holy city of Najaf brought to a quiet close. Calling on thousands of faithful followers, Sistani made a momentous arrival from London, where he had been undergoing heart treatment, setting the stage for a face-to-face showdown with Muqtada al-Sadr, the rebellious junior cleric leading the uprising that had subjected the city to 21 days of relentless bombardment by U.S. and Iraqi forces...
Hours later, al-Sadr accepted a deal that would empty the shrine of his fighters, and in return U.S. forces would withdraw from the city, turning over responsibility for keeping the peace to Iraqi police. But uncertainty lingered over how long the truce would last. The upstart cleric, whose Mahdi Army was allowed to withdraw intact, has reneged on agreements before, and this latest tactical retreat, after hundreds of his men had been killed, left him and his surviving militiamen free to fight another day. The interim Iraqi government led by Prime Minister Iyad Allawi had repeatedly vowed to crush...
...brothers in the Mahdi Army ... you should leave Kufa and Najaf without your weapons, along with the peaceful masses." MUQTADA AL-SADR, Shi'ite cleric, in a recorded statement, after agreeing to a peace deal brokered by Iraq's top Shi'ite spiritual leader, Grand Ayatullah Ali Husaini Sistani, to end three weeks of fighting between U.S. and Iraqi troops, and al-Sadr's Mahdi militia...