Word: muslim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...must be willing to accept that tenets of Christianity contrary to the policies of Harvard University will be practiced and taught there. If this is unacceptable, then the church should not only allow same-sex blessing ceremonies but also stop discriminating against non-Christian religions and Jewish and Muslim services as well. In passing this resolution, it is doubtful that the council meant so much to urge enforcement of Harvard's nondiscrimination policy. It meant to urge acceptance of the homosexual lifestyle within Christendom...
ACQUITTED. BRIGITTE BARDOT, 62, 1950s sex kitten turned animal-rights crusader; of charges of inciting racism; in Paris. The accusation stemmed from a Bardot letter published last year in a French newspaper decrying Muslim sacrificial slaughter of sheep, likening it to pagan rituals...
...scheduled for February 3. The justices ruled 6-1 against Bhutto after hearing convincing evidence of the former prime minister's corruption, phone-tapping, and a series of extrajudicial killings. Bhutto had also been accused of backing police hit squads in attacks against the Mohajir Qami Movement, an Indian Muslim opposition group, in the southern port city of Karachi. Bhutto, whose political career was born out of violence when she inherited the leadership of her father's populist party after he was deposed and later executed by General Mohammed Zia-ul Haq in 1977, first won the prime minister...
...maybe not. Saudi Arabia's problems are increasingly like the many-headed hydra of myth: slice off a head, others grow in its place. Worse, the Saudi government may be facing two hydras. The four men executed in the first bombing were members of the Sunni Muslim majority of the country. The 40 in custody for the Dhahran attack belong to the kingdom's Shi'ite minority. And the Shi'ite suspects bring with them the specter of a greater menace--Iran, the center of Shi'ism that lies about 160 miles across the gulf. Indeed, the Saudis believe Tehran...
...signed up for Afghanistan and the holy war against the atheistic Soviets that was vigorously supported by the pious Saudi government. For Said, Afghanistan was akin to attending a university for terrorism and extremism. He learned to use a rifle and to prime explosives. He met militant Muslim activists from throughout the Middle East, listening to them preach revolution against corrupt rulers who collaborated with the decadent and immoral West. After returning to the kingdom, Said followed the diatribes of Saudi exiles, including Osama bin Laden, a millionaire stripped of citizenship for denouncing King Fahd and demanding the expulsion...