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Some leaders sneak out of their country during an uprising; others become paralyzed by mass demonstrations. But when Uzbek oppositionists rose up in the eastern city of Andijan last week, Uzbekistan's President Islam Karimov sent in the armor. Communications with Andijan were cut; foreign TV news broadcasts to Uzbekistan, including from Russia, were replaced with light entertainment. The insurrection started when a group of armed men raided a local military base for weapons, then hit the local jail. There they freed inmates, including 23 well-known local businessmen accused of belonging to Akromiya, an offshoot of the banned Islamist...
...film, says Antell, means to “highlight some of the newer minority religions in the U.S.,” and therefore does not feature members of the Jewish or Christian faiths. Rather, the film explores the Eastern traditions of Hinduism, Islam, and Zen Buddhism, and the ways in which the three featured women use religious activism to help women grow as spiritual beings, family members and community members, noting that these roles should not be mutually exclusive...
...says she “started the Pluralism Project in order to extend [her] work and research on contemporary forms of religion into the United States, rather than just in India for Hinduism and Islam.” Recently, her studies have included understanding the lives and cultures of “the second generation of the post-1965 immigration, who came to college at Harvard [in the early 1990s...
...Jaafari's alliance is significantly divided on a number of questions, ranging from the place of Islam in a future constitution to the issue of whether to seek a timetable for U.S. withdrawal. And the halting process by which it has taken three months from election day to seat a partial cabinet is not an encouraging indicator of the prospects for the National Assembly to complete its primary function, drafting a permanent constitution for Iraq, by the August 15 deadline - or even, for that matter, by the fallback date next February...
...says she “started the Pluralism Project in order to extend [her] work and research on contemporary forms of religion into the United States, rather than just in India for Hinduism and Islam.” Recently, her studies have included understanding the lives and cultures of “the second generation of the post-1965 immigration, who came to college at Harvard [in the early 1990s...