Word: muslim
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Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasrin briefly emerged from hiding for the second time in as many weeks in order to flee from her homeland to Sweden, where she immediately went back into hiding. Muslim fundamentalists put a $5,000 bounty on her head after a newspaper quoted Nasrin as calling for a revision of the Koran; she says she was misquoted...
Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasrin briefly emerged from two months in hiding that began when the government issued a warrant for her arrest following protests by Muslim fundamentalists who had placed a $5,000 bounty on her head. Nasrin, they claim, recommended that the Koran be "revised thoroughly," a statement she denies making. The heavily guarded feminist appeared in a court in Dhaka, the capital, to face charges that she outraged Muslims by defaming their faith. After she was freed on $250 bail and quickly returned to seclusion, thousands of demonstrators marched through Dhaka's streets shouting "Death to Taslima Nasrin...
Stung by the Israel-Jordan peace agreement, which acknowledges Jordan's "special role" as custodian of Jerusalem's Muslim holy sites, P.L.O. < Chairman Yasser Arafat said talks on the city's future should begin immediately. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin refused and reaffirmed his position that Jerusalem must remain united under Israeli sovereignty...
...evening raid by Israeli fighter-bombers on a Muslim village in southern Lebanon killed 10 civilians and wounded 15 more. The Israeli army later apologized for what it said was an error...
...chairman Yasser Arafat's Palestinian National Authority arrested at least 35 suspected Muslim extremists after Israel threatened to halt talks over expanding Palestinian self-rule to the entire Gaza strip. Arafat's move came a day after gunmen from the Islamic Resistance Movement, or Hamas, killed an Israeli and wounded six others in drive-by shootings in Gaza. The extremists said Arafat's police were already confiscating weapons from Hamas members, a policy shift that TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer says is unprecedented and risky. While it may show the Israelis that Arafat is serious about peace, Beyer says...