Word: mullah
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...seen sat a man few non-Muslims have ever met mulling over the future of a wanted man, his own nation and much of the world beyond. Not often in history is anyone given such a moment to affect the world's course, but the Taliban's supreme leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, is that man. As American warplanes converged on the region surrounding Afghanistan, he had a stark choice to make. He could call by radio to the Taliban fighters in Osama bin Laden's personal security guard and order them to hand over their "guest" to justice...
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...
...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...