Word: muslim
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Instead of screaming at the U.S. for meddling, China should openly approach the Tibetan issue and begin negotiations with the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled political and spiritual leader. China's current policy of flooding Tibet with Han Chinese and Hui muslim immigrants heightens tensions and the potential for violence there. For the past 25 years the Tibetan independence movement has been exclusively non-violent, and for Asia's sake, it should stay...
WOULD THE WEST ALLOW THIS CARNAGE to go on if Algeria were not a Muslim country? Algerians wonder why there was not a word of protest at the rape of democratic process in that country. In fact the West seems scared by the rise of Islamic nationalism, and could not accept the victory of the Islamic Salvation Front in the Algerian elections. If the international community wants cordial relations with the inhabitants of the region stretching from the Atlantic to the Indian oceans, then it has to respect the aspirations of the Muslim masses...
This Carter achievement seemed particularly startling. For a dozen years, the Muslim Sudanese government in the north and the south's black Christian and animist rebels have tried to kill as many people on the other side as possible by deliberate starvation and by bombs and bullets. Between them they have snuffed out more than 1.3 million lives. But Carter, in this case as in others, was undaunted, and once more has got results that looked most unlikely: a cease-fire during what is prime season for heavy fighting...
Merchant expressed the irony of his 33-yearpartnership with Ivory and screenwriter RuthPrawer Jhabvala. Merchant is an Indian Muslim,Ivory is an American of Irish origin and Jhabwalais a Jew of Polish descent. The three havecombined to produce "the quintessential Britishfilms," he said...
...while Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin assured him that Russia will make sure Iran does not use plutonium from the reactors to manufacture weapons, the U.S. is not confident that Russia can do so. TIME senior editor George Russell says Russia sees Iran as a "major ideological threat," a key Muslim power with links to Muslims in the southern tier of the former Soviet Union who are disenchanted with Moscow. Russia "may be trying to buy Iran off," or else form a stronger diplomatic bond in order to keep a closer eye onTehran...