Word: maulana
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...come to see where we make the bombs," Maulana (teacher) Adil Siddiqui, said to a teenager who asked who I was. Siddiqui was a broadcaster with All-India Radio, the state radio, until he retired to this seminary to escape the world. This seminary is Dar-ul-uloom, or the place of knowledge, home to 3,500 boys and young men, mostly from poor families, in the Indian farming town of Deoband. It is also the spiritual home of the particular brand of Islam practiced by the Taliban...
...While Pakistan's military ruler, General Parvez Musharraf, officially condemned the hijacking, his armed forces - still smarting from their political defeat in last year's attempted land grab in the Indian-controlled section of Kashmir - don't appear set to rein in anti-Indian terrorism originating within Pakistani borders. Maulana Masood Azhar, the Pakistani cleric whose release from an Indian prison was the key demand of the Indian Airlines hijackers, celebrated his release at a rally in Karachi, Pakistan, on Wednesday, where he urged all Muslims not to rest "until we have destroyed America and India." And that...
...Afghanistan. "The Taliban's ruling council has decreed that no foreign military personnel will be allowed onto Afghan soil, and that rules out a commando raid to take out the hijackers," says TIME New Delhi correspondent Maseeh Rahman. "That may build up domestic pressure in India to release the Maulana in order to save the hostages." The hijackers have reduced their demands to one: The release of 36 Kashmiri separatist militants from Indian prisons, most notably the Pakistani cleric Maulana Masood Azhar...
...This diversity does not delegitimize Hanukkah or Kwanzaa, nor does Kwanzaa's relative newness. No one, including "would-be wise man" Maulana Karenga, is insisting that all black Americans exist in the same social spaces. Kwanzaa is about certain core values and norms and very little about Africa. We hope anyone who comments on Kwanzaa has thoroughly researched the rituals involved therein. They will find that they have no basis in any actual African practices or religion...
This diversity does not delegitimize Hanukkah or Kwanzaa, nor does Kwanzaa's relative newness. No one, including "would-be wise man" Maulana Karenga, is insisting that all black Americans exist in the same social spaces. Kwanzaa is about certain core values and norms and very little about Africa. We hope anyone who comments on Kwanzaa has thoroughly researched the rituals involved therein. They will find that they have no basis in any actual African practices or religion...