Word: koranic
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...LOST. By KORAN TEMPO, a leading Indonesian daily newspaper; a libel lawsuit brought by tycoon Tomy Winata over a February 2003 story reporting rumors that Winata planned to open a casino in Central Sulawesi province despite laws against gambling; in Jakarta. The court ruling was seen by media groups as threatening press freedoms that emerged after the fall of the Suharto dictatorship in 1998. The newspaper, which was ordered to pay Winata $1 million, said it planned to appeal...
...ambitions, because they are fired not by loyalty to the old regime but by religious zeal. As his charges scan the night skies for U.S. aircraft, Khaled explains that he receives instructions to attack U.S. forces from fundamentalist imams in local mosques, who "take their orders from the Holy Koran." He says, "We are fighting for Iraq and for Islam...
...October, kept himself busy in his Bali jail by penning his marital guide and two other books: The Men Who Influenced Me and My Life and The Jihad Bali Bombing: a Defense, both of which justify his role in the Bali attack and offer up lengthy quotations from the Koran. Twenty Practical Ways is altogether more unexpected: along with advice on how to ensure your wife knows who's boss?if she really gets out of line, a beating is permissible?Mukhlas writes at length about sex, with graphic descriptions of when and how conjugal relations should take place. Even...
...rejoiced at Saddam's downfall, believing it would bring an Islamic government to power. But religion now motivates him to oppose the U.S. "Islam tells us that no one should occupy our land," says Abu Abdullah, who earns his living by building houses along the Euphrates River. "The Koran allows us to kill anyone to defend our country." He contends that some sheiks and mosques in the area support his group of about 15 fighters. But he won't allow his cell to target civilians. "We believe we have only the right to kill soldiers," he says...
...schools. A 1905 law banned religious symbols from state schools, but legal rulings since the late 1980s narrowed the interdiction to those constituting "intimidation, provocation, proselytizing or propaganda." The codified secularism proposed by the panel would ban from schools not only head scarves - which many Muslim women believe the Koran requires them to wear - but also Jewish yarmulkes and large jewelry crucifixes, while permitting "discreet" religious tokens. The panel also suggested that some Muslim and Jewish holidays be given off. Chirac will announce this week whether he'll back a secularity...