Word: muslim
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...accept the alms from them that earn the donor merit in a future life, or to participate in weddings and funerals. The boycott stirred anxiety among the troops. "Most of the young soldiers come from villages where monks are held in high respect," says Omar Farouk, a Burmese Muslim living in Bangkok...
Black youths have often been attracted to Islam, with its strong image of male assertiveness, black pride and rigid discipline. In particular, Muslim organizations have far outdone Christians in evangelizing prison inmates and ex-convicts. The Lincoln-Mamiya study estimates, however, that the two major North American black Islamic groups have only 120,000 members, and some inner- city pastors claim that fascination with the religion is waning...
Singh's government fell after only 11 months when issues of caste and religion erupted into violence over rival Hindu-Muslim claims to the site of a mosque at Ayodhya. Winning the support of less than half of the 140 Janata Dal members, Chandrashekhar will be dependent upon the opposition Congress (I) Party and its allies...
...Rama is worshiped by many of India's 696 million Hindus as the embodiment of chivalry and virtue. But it was Shiva, the god of destruction, who showed his face last week as thousands of Rama devotees marched toward a 462-year-old Muslim mosque in Ayodhya, a site holy to both Hindus and Muslims in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. Shouting "Break the mosque! Break the mosque!" about 100 stone-throwing crusaders pulled plaster from the walls and planted saffron-colored flags atop the shrine before they were driven off by police and paramilitary troops armed with tear...
Equally disturbing are signs that Hindu activism is reverberating beyond India's borders. In Bangladesh gangs of Muslims armed with knives or clubs attacked at least 11 Hindu temples in the southern port of Chittagong in retaliation for the Ayodhya assault; hundreds of Hindu homes and shops were burned. Major demonstrations also broke out in several cities in Muslim- dominated Pakistan...