Word: muslim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agony has ended," said a relieved Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, the Home Minister in India's newly elected government, as he was reunited last week with his daughter Rubia. The 22-year-old medical intern had been kidnaped five days earlier by Muslim extremists agitating for the secession of Jammu and Kashmir state...
Sayeed, India's first Muslim Home Minister, has vowed to bring peace to his country's only predominantly Muslim state. Late last week the government did so by force, slapping a curfew on all major towns in the Kashmir valley...
Moawad's election was a crucial step in a peace attempt brokered last month by the Arab League. The goal was to restore stability by giving Lebanon's Muslim majority greater powers in parliament and the Cabinet while reducing those of the Christian President. Under a new constitution, the President shares power with parliament, including the selection of a Cabinet that carefully balances Lebanon's religious sects. The U.N. Security Council, the U.S. and the European Community endorsed Moawad's efforts to form a government of national unity under this revised framework, and he had been making some progress despite...
...King pronounced himself "quite satisfied" with the election outcome. But the potential exists for Muslim Brotherhood legislators to form a coalition with radical leftists to embarrass him. To be sure, the Hashemite King retains the power to disband Parliament and rule without it. But after calling the elections under popular pressure, he would presumably be reluctant to exercise such authority...
...16th century mosque in the North Indian town of Ayodhya. Militant Hindu groups claim that India's Mogul conquerors built the mosque after destroying a temple marking the birthplace of the Hindu god Rama. The militants demand that a temple to Rama be built on the spot. India's Muslim minority fiercely objects to the plan. As tension has mounted in recent weeks, at least 400 people, most of them Muslims, have been killed in communal rioting...