Word: clericalism
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Even in the most cynical of times, "wicked" and "traitor" are rarely words that come to mind when describing a priest. But then, Father Nguyen Van Ly is no ordinary priest. The 53-year-old Catholic cleric has already spent nine years in prison, and last week he was in trouble again. Vietnamese authorities detained him in the central town of Hue and jailed two of his assistants. State-run newspapers obediently denounced him; one daily ran a photo of the priest holding a crucifix, under the headline: people's traitor unmasked...
Hawaneen arrived at the Herat camp a month ago after selling his plow and even the tin roof off his house to pay for the journey. Now, in the barren, sand-blown camp, Hawaneen crouches against the wind and watches in dumb agony as a Muslim cleric lays the bony, starved corpse of his eight-year-old son on a plastic sheet spread on the ground and washes him for burial...
...have long gazed upon an eruption of Mount Merapi as an omen of troubled times ahead. So when the central Java volcano began sputtering and oozing lava early last week, many Indonesians recognized a portent of ill tidings for President Abdurrahman Wahid, the nearly blind 60-year-old Muslim cleric who has fitfully governed the country for the past 15 months...
...deadly trade: a bombing spree he purportedly planned in Manila 13 months ago killed 22 people and injured 80. The school in the east Java town of Ngruki, near Solo, where Fathur got his brand of religion was founded by Abubakar Ba'asyir, a 64-year-old Islamic cleric. Police in Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines believe Abubakar is the leader of a network of terrorist cells called Jemaah Islamiah, a Southeast Asian version of al-Qaeda with possible links to Osama bin Laden's group. Abubakar was not at the school while Fathur was studying there; he had fled...
...Indonesia, unlike its neighbors, seems to be going easy on suspected terrorist organizations. Abubakar continues to live his normal life, teaching at the same school where Fathur studied in the 1980s. Last week, Indonesian police called the white-bearded cleric to Jakarta for questioning. After two days of what his lawyer described as "gentle" interrogation, Abubakar was allowed to return home. He denies he preaches terrorism and says he has no links with al-Qaeda, although he told reporters that he "praises the struggle of Osama bin Laden ... in fighting the arrogance of the terrorist United States." His lawyers...