Word: muslim
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Saddam is particularly interested in exploiting Arab perceptions that the West applies an anti-Muslim double standard. He massages Arab resentment that the same allied forces that retaliate so quickly against Iraq remain indifferent to the Serbian slaughter of Bosnia's Muslims and turn a blind eye to Israel's expulsion of more than 400 Palestinians. Said the Turkish daily Cumhuriyet: "How could the U.S. start this operation against the background of public opinion horrified by events in Bosnia? With 10,000 women raped and people jammed into internment camps in Bosnia, this bombing is inexplicable...
India's most glamorous city, home to the glitzy "Bollywood" film industry, has become the capital for the country's primal violence between Hindus and Muslims. Behind Bombay's white seafront facade, the communities have been at war since more than 200 people, mostly Muslims, died in outbreaks following the destruction of a disputed mosque last month. Deadly retaliation and counterretaliation continue, leading to scenes like this: weeping Hindu women surrounded by their Muslim counterparts, all seeking refuge from the hurricane of hate...
...road from the capital is frequently under fire, Bosnian Deputy Prime Minister Hakija Turajlic chose to travel by U.N. convoy. The precaution was of no avail. En route back to town, the convoy was halted by 40 Serb irregular troops. After 90 minutes, his captors shot Turajlic, a Muslim, seven times in the chest and head through the open door of the U.N. armored car, in the presence of five French peacekeepers. He died at U.N. headquarters, the first high-level political figure to be assassinated in the former Yugoslavia's civil...
Turajlic's cold-blooded murder outraged fellow Muslims and seemed to scuttle a new Bosnian peace initiative, which opened earlier in the week in Geneva. Meeting under U.N. auspices, the republic's factional leaders listened to a plan presented by negotiators Cyrus Vance of the U.S. and Lord Owen of Britain that would divide the multiethnic state into 10 largely autonomous provinces. Of these, Serbs would clearly predominate in one and Muslims in three, with power-sharing agreements between Muslims and either Serbs or Croats required in five others. The last province would be long-besieged Sarajevo, slated to become...
...upgrade his factory equipment. He winced when he paid $38,000 for a small Datsun, but says the steep price was worthwhile because it helped the government prevent traffic jams by limiting car ownership. "Overall," he says, "life in Singapore is pretty good." Sultan Ahamed, an ethnic Indian Muslim spice trader with strong family links to his strife-torn homeland, speaks for many Singaporeans when he declares, "What shall I say? This is a paradise...