Word: eid
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This all dovetails neatly with regional mantras about the need to empower women. "Middle Eastern society has come to terms with the fact that in order to develop, it has to walk the talk of liberalism," says Florence Eid, a Middle East partner at American hedge fund company Pantera Capital Management. Of course, the finance industry is driven by commercial imperatives, not social ones. "This is not about women's liberation," says Graham Bell, managing director of Bridge Partners, a wealth-management firm in Dubai. "It's about money...
...bombers. "It's someplace safe where they can do their business without having to worry about local informants, because there are some hefty rewards out," says Col. Bill Coultrup, head of the U.S. Joint Special Operations Task Force that is helping the Philippine military hunt terrorists. MILF spokesman Eid Kabulu says there are no formal links between his group and terrorists. However, he says, "there might be some individuals who these people are close to or have some relationship with and who they're in some way able to exploit...
...been allowed to stay in a camp at the junction of four M.I.L.F. command zones. A high-ranking police officer who asked not to be named says he believes the M.I.L.F. is helping Abu Sayyaf in hopes that the unrest it stirs will help their cause. M.I.L.F. spokesman Eid Kabulu denies any formal links between his group and Abu Sayyaf, but says terrorists could still call on ties of friendship and family: "There might be some individuals who these people are close to or have a relationship with, and who they're in some way able to exploit...
...French officials in 2004 in which she alluded to Muslims as "this population that leads us around by the nose, [and] which destroys our country." The former actress-turned-animal rights crusader had written that letter to protest the ritual slaughter of sheep during the Muslim festival of Eid-al-Kabir. Her missive, whose contents were later leaked to the media, had been sent to then-Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, whose rising popularity was based in part on his hard line on immigration and tough stand against troublesome youths from immigrant backgrounds...
...Bardot's defense Tuesday was that her passionate denunciation of the ritual slaughter of Eid-al-Kabir had been misinterpreted as an attack on Islam in France. A similar defense had failed to spare her from conviction in four earlier trials. In 1997, for example, Bardot was first convicted on the charge of "inciting racial hatred" for her open letter to French daily Le Figaro, complaining of "foreign over-population", mostly by Muslim families...