Word: islamicization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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It's become a habit in Pakistan that whenever a ruler's popularity disintegrates, he or she begins waving the scimitar of Islam. Never mind that not once since Pakistan became a nation 51 years ago has this noisy brandishing of faith ever worked to bolster the leader's popularity...
"I feel relieved that the application is over," said Fulbright applicant Amir Zarrinpar '99, who applied for a grant to study Islamic art and architecture in Turkey.
Iran's Islamic fundamentalist rulers have a beef with their Afghani counterparts -- so much so that Tehran on Tuesday sent 70,000 troops to play war games on the border between the two countries. Tensions are running high since 11 Iranian diplomats disappeared after the ruling Taliban seized an opposition...
While that may sound like a recipe for a bruising intra-Islamic war, MacLeod explains that "there's no appetite in Iran for military adventures, not even among hard-liners -- the country still feels the bitter wounds of its eight-year war against Iraq." On the other hand, military maneuvers...
ARRESTED. TWO NEW SUSPECTS being questioned in the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania; for attempting to cross the Pakistani border into Afghanistan without proper papers. Pakistani officials say they are interrogating the two, a Saudi and a Sudanese, over possible links to Osama bin Laden, the...