Word: muslim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...example, the small Canaday mosque is the seventh location Muslim undergraduates have been forced into in the past six months, according to two students' count. Students have had to use locations from the Straus Hall common room to Memorial Hall to distant Vanserg Hall, which is 20 minutes' walk from the Yard...
...find a lot of students who are very interested in what it means to be a Muslim," Ahmad says...
Carter made his journey contingent on Karadzic's fulfilling six self-imposed "concessions" to peace. In fact they were nothing of the kind. The Bosnian Serb leader promised to honor the Sarajevo cease-fire -- an area where there is not much fighting -- and release Muslim prisoners under the age of 19 -- of whom there are almost none. He also promised to release U.N. hostages, permit free movement of U.N. convoys and reopen Sarajevo airport (two U.N. planes landed on Saturday); in other words, undoing actions already deemed illegal by U.N. resolutions. Finally, he pledged to "guarantee human rights," a declaration...
...Russian army is also meeting tenacious resistance. To reach Grozny, it had to fight its way through Ingushetiya, an ethnic republic whose people are Muslim and, like the Chechens, are anti-Russian. Two days after the advance began, the burned-out hulks of at least seven Russian trucks could be seen on the main highway through Ingushetiya into Chechnya; many more, with their tires cut, were being towed away...
...John Paul, Lustiger replies, "Me? Totally excluded. Out of the question." Lustiger fidgets silently with his breviary in its brown leather case, then suddenly announces, "I had a dream. I dreamed that the President of the United States was black, the President of the ex-U.S.S.R. was a Muslim -- and the Pope was Chinese. And in my dream I asked God to let me die before that day would come. Because if ever we had a Chinese Pope" -- he clenches his fist and makes a screw-turning gesture -- "they know what administration...