Word: muslim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...traditional festivities. Most of the country's Christian leaders see no end to the intifadeh. They fear that their flocks, already reduced by a century of emigration to the West, could gradually decline into virtual extinction, as has already happened to the once grand Greek Orthodox community in Muslim Turkey...
More than a million people have already died in the conflict between the predominantly Muslim north and the Christian and animist south. Now some 250,000 are wasting away in Juba, the besieged southern capital, which has been virtually shut off from outside relief since September. Aweil, 600 miles southwest of Khartoum, got its last food train eight months ago; 8,000 exhausted people perished there during the summer. How many more have gone, no one knows...
Ishaq Khan hinted he would not automatically bypass Bhutto: "I think a woman Prime Minister might be a good change." In the male-dominated Muslim society of Pakistan, it would be an astonishing one. That did not daunt Bhutto. She immediately set out to solicit coalition partners. By Thursday night she claimed, "We already have a simple majority in the parliament." But Nawaz Sharif is also scrambling to assemble a majority, and likewise predicts he will succeed...
...repetition of the violence and ballot-box fraud that rapidly destroyed nearly all the country's previous attempts at democratic rule. The quiet this week at the 33,328 polling stations was hailed as a triumph of restraint. "Peace has not broken down," wrote Maleeha Lodhi, editor of the Muslim, an Islamabad-based daily. "Violence has remained well within the limits of subcontinental acceptability...
...keener obstruction to Bhutto's authority may be the traditional attitudes of Pakistan's Islamic people. Not all are eager to live under the first Muslim government headed by a woman. In the days prior to the election, 40 mullahs issued a fatwa, or religious verdict, warning that a nation headed by a woman cannot prosper and risks falling "into the pit of Western cultural degeneration...