Word: mullah
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There is, of course, no reason to trust the Taliban, which has a long history of harboring terrorist organizations. Its reclusive leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, threatened yesterday that unless the U.S. withdraws its military from the Persian Gulf, stays out of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and leaves the Muslim world alone, there will be “an endless war that will burn America and America only.” These are not the words of international cooperation in the face of mass murder. Given the high probability of U.S. military action to disrupt bin Laden’s network...
...Death to Americans" shouted the mullah, his right arm punching the air. "Death to Americans" responded the crowd of several thousand men, gathered in the narrow streets of the Qissa Khawani bazaar in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar after Friday prayers. They had congregated outside the mosque to listen to speakers denounce the U.S. and its war against terrorism. At the back of the crowd a man raised a straw effigy of President Bush, set it alight, and then others flailed at the burning straw with sticks...
...crowd shifted, one man lurched back and inadvertently stepped on my toes. He turned around and apologized profusely at his clumsiness and his lack of manners with a foreign guest. Then he turned back to listen to the mullah say "Death to Americans." Just don't step on their toes...
...India's interests. Many are delighted to see America humiliated. The weekly magazine "Wu Jood," with a picture of Osama bin Laden on its cover, is selling briskly. The caption on the cover reads, "Not Russia, not America - only Allah is a superpower." "America has great power," says Mullah Yousef, "but God sent just four planes like mosquitoes, and Bush was forced to run away from his house." Should the Americans attack, says the Mullah, "Afghanistan will be a cemetery for American corpses...
...political reputation of graduates from Deobandi schools that has led some governments in the region to keep the Deobandi movement at arm's length. India refuses to grant visas to students from abroad to study at Dar-ul-uloom, fearful that another leader like the Taliban's Mullah Omar might emerge in one of its neighbors. But the government has no problems opening immigration doors to foreign students who wish to study at the country's other great center of Islamic scholarship and revival - Aligarh Muslim University...