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...been following consistently is separatism. The AKP continually distinguishes the "religious" from the secularists, who its members imply cannot be good Muslims. Who are they to decide who is religious and who is not? Religion should stay in the private sphere to ensure religious freedoms for all. Esra Music, CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind Party Lines | 8/1/2007 | See Source »

...words he quoted from a 14th century Byzantine Emperor do not reflect his own views raises a most puzzling question: Why then did he quote them? If the Pope's intentions had been more pious than political, he would have sought a positive way to engage Muslims in dialogue. Esra Tasneem Aslam Chennai, India None of the Abrahamic faiths - Islam, Christianity and Judaism - are toothless religions. The Pope should recall the Crusades, when the church used the same sword to further its cause. The Bible says, "First take the log out of your own eye and then you shall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Chilling Preview of War | 10/10/2006 | See Source »

...People believed in wealth that the eye could see," says Princess Esra Jah, the Turkish-born former wife of the grandson of the last Nizam of Hyderabad, over tea at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Bombay. Her work for the family's ambitious restoration of Hyderabad's Chowmahalla Palace as a museum is much admired, and nobles hope the family will be allowed to display permanently the Nizam's fabled jewel collection, which was acquired by the Indian government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Passage to India | 3/8/2006 | See Source »

...Esra B. Burak contributed to the reporting of this article...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: MBTA To Wire For Cell Phones | 7/20/2001 | See Source »

...Mukarram Jah Bahadur, 25, grandson and direct heir of the 74-year-old Nizam of Hyderabad (often called "the richest man on earth"), son of Azam Jah, 52, Prince of Berar, whose "polo ponies and worthless wenches" were too much for the Nizam, who disowned him in 1956; and Esra Birgen, 21, a student at the University of London and daughter of a prominent Turkish family; in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 27, 1959 | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

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