Word: muslim
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...West is waging political war-fare on the Muslim world, author Imam Imran Hosein said last night in a Harvard Hall speech on the sacred aspects of marriage in Islam...
Another warning of danger outside the wire-rimmed islet of peace sounded in the north, where militiamen, presumably from the Muslim extremist group Hizballah, in Lebanon exchanged fire with Israeli troops. And in the Gaza Strip the Palestine Liberation Organization's leader Yasser Arafat, with whom Israel made peace last year, called a general strike. He was protesting a clause in the treaty that lends weight to Jordan's claim to protect Jerusalem's Muslim holy places...
...first international war crimes tribunal since Nuremberg and Tokyo indicted a Bosnian Serb camp commander on charges connected with ethnic cleansing of Muslims. The Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal, formed by the U.N. a year ago, issued a warrant today against Dragan Nikolic, who is accused of killing eight Muslim prisoners. He is also charged with torture, plunder and the illegal imprisonment of 500 Bosnian Muslims after Serbs overran the Bosnian city of Vlasenica in April1992. The trial isn't imminent -- Nikolic's precise whereabouts aren't known.Post your opinion on theInternationalbulletin board...
...Mahfouz understood his world well enough to foresee the rise of Muslim fundamentalism, which has threatened a great religion...and would put a knife into his own neck," she said...
...Bosnian hijacker today commandeered a Scandinavian plane with 129 passengers aboard before surrendering at day's end to Oslo police. He demanded that supply lines to Muslim areas in his troubled homeland be opened tohumanitarian aid. The hijacker took control of a Scandinavian Airlines System flight Thursday afternoon as it flew between the Norwegian towns of Bardufoss and Bodo. After 52 people were allowed off at Bodo, the plane flew 500 miles south to an Oslo airport. The hijacker claimed to have a grenade and threatened to blow up the plane if it was stormed by police. In a tape...