Word: muslimism
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...position is difficult not just because I have colleagues and friends who disagree but because I have no Palestinian friends. For every five Jewish people I have loved, I hardly know one Arab. Indeed, I am troubled by the insouciance of the Arab and Muslim world in the face of unjust suffering by people who look like me. A region so publicly committed to its anti-racist religious tradition remains mute over the atrocities of the Arab and Islamic government of Sudan against Africans in Darfur and the south. Osama bin Laden and his cheerleaders treat as insignificant the deaths...
...Bhutto press conferences all started precisely at 5:30 p.m., exactly 40 minutes before sundown on the first day of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. The good Muslims in her audience hadn?t touched food, drink or cigarettes since dawn. And so, the post press-conference invitation to a traditional sundown feast was met with more cheers than the announcement of her return - proof that she knows what will please a crowd...
...though brief, has effectively changed the country's power equation. In the immediate aftermath of Sharif's deportation, public reaction was muted. But there is a growing sense of a nation spoiling for a fight. The day after Sharif's failed comeback from exile, his political party, the Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PMLN), filed a petition with the Supreme Court to order his immediate return and to bring contempt-of-court charges against the government - given that the Supreme Court had earlier ruled Sharif has "an inalienable right" to return. His party faithful, undaunted by their leader's absence...
...Musharraf's woes go beyond Sharif. Support in both the army he leads and the political party he founded, the Pakistan Muslim League (Q), is hemorrhaging over a proposed power-sharing deal with Bhutto. It would require Musharraf to shed his uniform, drop corruption charges against Bhutto, which have kept her in exile since 1999, and do away with the constitutional amendment that allows the President to dissolve Parliament. Musharraf would get the backing of Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party to stay as President, while she gets a shot at being Prime Minister. But the deal has stalled...
...second quarter from the previous year - which was above market forecasts - as private and government consumption boosted growth to its strongest level in two decades. And, though the troubles in fractious south have flared up in recent months, the government is planning to hold talks with some Muslim separatist groups...