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...Various Muslim organizations receive funding from abroad to promote segregation, fundamentalism and terrorist activities. The Muslim hinterlands have been flash points for communal clashes. In Bangladesh and Pakistan, unpublicized atrocities are meted out by Muslims on minority Hindus. And there is always the example of Kashmir to heighten the ire of those who are predisposed to zealotry. Ever since the creation of an independent India and separate Pakistan, lives have been lost in the name of the two religions. Krishna Prasad Paudel Singapore...
...Qaeda, the U.S. occupation of Iraq presents a growth opportunity commensurate with that offered by the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan three decades ago. Then, as now, the presence of "infidel" troops in a Muslim land aroused the ire of young Muslim militants around the world, and many of those that volunteered to go to Afghanistan to join the anti-Soviet jihad later became the organizational and political core of al-Qaeda. Now, the movement is hoping to repeat the experience, albeit under more trying circumstances - this time, the volunteers won't have the support of the CIA and the Saudis...
...blackouts. Shortly afterward, Silicon Valley?s tech bubble burst, ending the state?s incredible economic growth. Now Davis and state legislators can?t seem to work together to pass a budget. It?s enough to make anyone call for heads to roll, and Davis certainly deserves some of the ire...
...reforms. Lewis was the driving force behind the randomization of upper class housing, a move which has won plaudits from many, but which Lewis himself has said he suspects would be instantly overturned in a student referendum. Many of Lewis’ more minor reforms have also aroused the ire of the student body, most recently the ban on kegs at Harvard’s home games...
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