Word: masjid
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...with Hindu terrorism," an unsigned editorial in the Shiv Sena's official newspaper said. Hindu right-wing organizations have been blamed for virulent anti-Christian violence in two states in recent months, and many critics would label the 2002 Gujarat riots and the tearing down of the Babri Masjid in 1992 - which first propelled the BJP to national prominence - as acts of Hindu extremist violence as well. Hindu right-wing parties have used Islamist terrorism to play upon the majority community's resentment at a sense of persecution by the minority Muslim community. "One hopes the arrests will cause some...
...security and investigation agencies have had a trite, almost comically knee-jerk explanation for terror attacks - they have been blamed on Islamist fundamentalists aided by "foreign elements," meaning mostly Pakistan and China. Even where the majority of victims have been Muslims - such as the May 2007 blast at Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad, the attack on an Indo-Pak train in February 2007 and the April 2006 twin blasts at New Delhi's Jama Masjid - the first murmurs of suspicion have named Islamist groups. Investigation trails in these cases have led nowhere, yet no one has dared ask if non-Muslims...
This militant masjid has been goading Musharraf into armed conflict on the streets of Islamabad...
...spite of the fact that many of the members of this movement were impoverished teenagers who relied on the school for food, shelter, and education, partisans of this approach did not tolerate attempts to understand their grievances. A particularly prominent Pakistani liberal raged that the “Lal Masjid battle is part of the wider civil war within the Islamic world waged by totalitarian forces that seek redemption through violence,” and decried their “cancerous radicalism.” This perspective is hardly absent from liberal discourse in the West: In the aftermath...
...according to the director of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, I.A. Rehman, who had traveled to the capital from Lahore for the meeting. But as the group sat down to begin the afternoon session they could hear the cries of rioters clashing with police outside the controversial Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, less than a mile away...