Word: muslim
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...must have been the hope of every resident who defied an army-enforced curfew in the Kashmiri town of Sopore last Thursday to protest a massacre that left 55 people dead and scores injured. It was India's latest blow in a three-year campaign to crush the predominantly Muslim state's bid for independence. In retaliation for the killing of one soldier, paramilitary forces rampaged through Sopore's market setting buildings ablaze and shooting bystanders. The Indian government pronounced the event "unfortunate" and claimed that an ammunition dump had been hit by gunfire, setting off fires that killed most...
Each attempt to find a solution to the exiles' predicament -- or at least to provide them temporary relief -- was going nowhere. France offered to dispatch doctors to check the health of the men, who were deported for allegedly inciting Muslim fundamentalist violence. Both Israel and Lebanon, which refuses to absorb the exiles, said no. Israel said it would let the Red Cross ferry relief supplies to the group through Israeli-controlled southern Lebanon if the Lebanese would permit a simultaneous shipment through their territory. Beirut said no. Visiting U.N. Under Secretary-General James Jonah wasn't even allowed...
This should be a somber time for Muslim fundamentalists in the Israeli- occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Over the past three weeks, Israel has deported 415 alleged Islamic activists to Lebanon and jailed 1,000 others; dozens more have been shot in clashes with the army. But far from despairing, adherents of the fundamentalist movement are jubilant. "The Israelis," says a member of Hamas, the main fundamentalist organization, "have done us a big favor. We are the winners in all of this...
...pervasive is Hamas' influence that nearly all the women in the Gaza Strip have taken to covering their head in the Muslim fashion. Hamas enforces Islamic prohibitions against prostitution and drug use by killing people accused of such transgressions and leaving their bodies in public places. In the beginning the executions were justified as "collaborator" killings -- the elimination of Palestinians supposedly cooperating with Israel; these days the fundamentalists have dropped that pretense and enforce Islamic law as they...
...past year, Hamas has expanded its links to fundamentalists outside the territories who are willing to bankroll it. According to intelligence reports, Iran has contributed $30 million this year. P.L.O. activists complain that Saudi Arabia and Qatar are also providing funds, and Israeli officials have even tracked funds from Muslim groups in the U.S. and Britain. Hamas can finance social institutions such as schools, medical clinics, charities and mosques that bolster its strength among the less religious. The P.L.O. still outspends Hamas in the territories, but the trend is in the fundamentalists' favor...