Word: mahmud
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Your report on accused world Trade Center plotter Mahmud Abouhalima and Muslim radicals ((Cover Story, Oct. 4)) demonstrates that you unfortunately believe Islam has a dark side. But Islam is a very peaceful religion. It is too bad that when someone does an evil deed and claims to be a Muslim, all Muslims and Islam itself are considered to be evil. Murder is not tolerated in Islam, and the murder of civilians is especially un-Islamic. The very word Islam comes from the Arabic word al-salaam, meaning peace. People fear Islam without understanding its true nature. Omar Reda Maple...
...told the Zionist enemy we will meet it with many surprises ... and this is one of the surprises." ABU OBEIDEH, Hamas spokesman, on Palestinian grandmother Fatima Omar Mahmud al-Naja; the 64-year-old woman strapped on a suicide belt that detonated as she approached Israeli soldiers in Gaza. Three soldiers were slightly injured; only al-Naja died "Apart from a small portion of traffic victims, most of the organs from cadavers are from executed prisoners." HUANG JIEFU, Chinese Vice Minister of Health, acknowledging that China harvests organs from executed prisoners for transplants, a practice it has long denied...
...into a false sense of security. Even as the airport route has got somewhat safer, huge portions of the Iraqi capital have become far more dangerous. I pass one of those on the drive into the city: Amariyah, the mainly Sunni suburb adjacent to Camp Victory and home to Mahmud, one of my Iraqi colleagues. (The names of most of TIME's Iraqi employees have been changed in this article for their protection; working for a foreign company makes them targets for insurgents, and many lie, even to their closest neighbors, about what they do for a living.) A couple...
...Mahmud, my Iraqi colleague who fled Amariyah, has sent his wife and four kids to Amman. Whether they will return when schools reopen will depend on the security situation. Mahmud is not optimistic. "I should have made them pack winter clothes," he says...
Sunnis like Mahmud now feel vulnerable in Baghdad, which for centuries was the citadel from which they lorded it over Iraq's Shi'ite majority. For the first three years after Saddam's fall, much of the violence in and around the capital was committed against Shi'ites by Sunni insurgents and jihadis. But since the beginning of this year, Shi'ite death squads--widely believed to emanate from militias like the Mahdi Army and the Iran-trained Badr Organization--have become the main practitioners of terrorist violence. Each side has its signature style of murder. When Iraqis hear news...