Word: muslim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...months. In balloting for chambers of commerce and student and labor unions, Islamic fundamentalists have prevailed each time except the last, the chamber of commerce elections for the city of Nablus in May. There the P.L.O. slate won nine of 12 seats, but only after cynically inserting the word Muslim into its title and emphasizing the religious credentials of its candidates...
...Muslim extremists are widening their following in Saudi Arabia. Despite the kingdom's jailing of the 20 leading Saudi fundamentalists, tape recordings of their sermons seem to be everywhere. The fundamentalists maintain that American troops were sent to the gulf not to fight Saddam Hussein but to prepare for war between Christianity and Islam. The Saudi preachers also contend that Protestants from the West have been exploiting tensions between Israel and its Arab neighbors to this end. They cite actions by American Presidents Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter as well as televangelists Jimmy Swaggart, Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson...
...Yugoslavia, the makeshift arrangements of the dispossessed sometimes forge new bonds. Jelena Pekez, 27, a Croat from the Bosnian town of Jajce, is married to a Serb. Vesna Gacic, 29, a Serb from the Bosnian town of Mostar, is married to a man of Croatian and Muslim descent. Both women fled to Kosmaj, south of Belgrade: Pekez left just ahead of a total blockade of her hometown, Gacic after a frightening 20-day stay in an underground shelter. When the two women's paths crossed at a center set up by the Red Cross, they kept their distance...
...pummel Serbs and attempt to impose total control over any who stayed in Croatian territory. Now Tudjman is taking advantage of Bosnia's war to occupy areas settled by Croats. His government has reportedly negotiated with Belgrade to carve up Bosnia between the Serbs and Croats, leaving the Muslim population with next to nothing. It is an open question whether citizens will be able to set aside their anger and return to their neighborly habits when the guns are silenced...
...when children first arrive at temporary shelters, they speak of coming from Croatia or Bosnia; within a few weeks, however, they identify themselves as refugees. Adults are also relinquishing former ties. "I grew up with Serbs. We chased women together when we were young," says David Becirovic, 35, a Muslim businessman from Sarajevo who now camps with his wife, two children and 100 other people in a sports hall in downtown Zagreb. He says the drumbeat of Serbian leaders, who declare that any Serb who doesn't join the battle is a traitor, has made Sarajevo an alien place...