Word: muslim
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Cyprus is a single island with two communities one Greek, Christian and fairly prosperous; the other Turkish, Muslim and relatively poor. The Greeks outnumber the Turks 4 to 1, and long before the island won its independence from Britain in 1960, many Greek Cypriots wanted enosis, or union with Greece. Given that alternative, Turkish Cypriots not unreasonably preferred partition and, in due course, the creation of their own state. After much provocation, Turkey invaded in 1974 and seized the northern third of Cyprus. The Greek community ended up with 160,000 refugees. Turkish Cypriots fared even worse. No country...
...they moved through the hinterlands of the former Yugoslavia last week, TIME correspondents found believable evidence everywhere. In the northern village of Trnopolje they visited the "Fraternity" elementary school that Serb militia forces have turned into a detention camp for 4,000 people, mostly Muslim men. Half the captives live outdoors in makeshift lean-tos; they all ^ get the same dirty water and use the same three toilets. One inmate, Hajudin Zubovic, a 28-year-old miner, told how a dozen or more prisoners at a ceramics factory in the area had been forced to stand...
...Radovan Karadzic, "but ethnic shifting. We are doing it to protect people." They have conjured up a phantom Islamic jihad from which they are saving Europe. ( "This is not a civil war," insists Prijedor police chief Drljaca. "It's a religious war." The operative lie is that Bosnia's Muslim leader, Alija Izetbegovic, is bent on creating a Muslim fundamentalist state. Never mind that Bosnia's Muslims are not fundamentalist, indeed are among the more secular followers of the Prophet Muhammad. Croatian President Franjo Tudjman, who shares the Serb ambition to carve up Bosnia, parrots the charge that "there...
...formal rite of passage toward manhood and adult heterosexuality. Dual sexuality has also been seen as a pragmatic response, a way to fill a sexual need when passion is thwarted by culture and circumstance, such as imprisonment. Mixing between men and women before marriage is strictly limited in some Muslim societies...
...efforts plays into the hands of Serbs who want to create as many refugees as possible -- and who perhaps mean to pursue the tactic to "cleanse" other Serb-minority territory closer to Hungary, Albania, Greece and Turkey. Faced with Western inaction, Turkey and Iran are watching the nearby anti-Muslim pogrom more and more anxiously...