Word: mahmud
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...getting insulting, sniggering comments ("Nice car. Where did you steal it?") to being handcuffed, blindfolded and hauled off to prison or, worse, a torture chamber. The most vulnerable are those who have obviously Sunni names, such as Omar. I have interviewed more than a dozen Omars, including two of Mahmud's nephews, who have endured varying degrees of persecution from police or militias. As a precaution, many Sunnis are buying fake ID cards with safe Shi'ite names...
Such bizarre logic quickly becomes received wisdom in a society in which even the highest officials in the land propagate outlandish conspiracy theories. The speaker of Iraq's parliament, Mahmud al-Mashhadani, a Sunni, announced at a press conference in Bahrain that "an entire Israeli brigade has entered Iraq ... trying to infiltrate various parties." That phantom force, he continued, is "camped at Babylon, whose destruction signifies the survival of the state of Israel in their holy books...
...with Pakistan that had been scheduled for this week. Singh said he warned Pakistan's leaders "that if the acts of terrorism are not controlled, it is exceedingly difficult for any government to carry forward what may be called a normalization and peace process." Pakistan's Foreign Minister, Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri, countered such criticisms by saying, "There should not be a knee-jerk reaction that everything happening in India starts in Pakistan." But in New Delhi on Friday, protesters burned effigies of Musharraf in the streets. Bhatt, who has spent the past three years cultivating Indo-Pakistan friendship through...
...Mahmud said. “These militias run the city by instilling terror in Nabulsis themselves. They smuggle arms, kidnap people, and threaten their lives. They have nothing to do with the Israelis...well, not directly, if you know what I mean...
...know, Shira,” said Mahmud to me, our eyes fixated on each other with unusual sincerity, “Hamas is nothing like Fatah. When you go to a Fatah gathering in the city, the chairs are disorganized and people shoot with their guns at the air to demonstrate power and control. At a Hamas rally, which usually takes place in elementary schoolyards, the chairs for the guests are in perfect lines—as orderly as disciplined soldiers—and there is not a single shot heard in the air. It is weird...