Word: muslims
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ahmad had gone to Bombay to present a paper on Muslim separatism in India at the conference. "Ironically, Muslim separatists were involved in the hijacking," Business School spokesman William Hokinson said yesterday...
Iran's conflicts at home and abroad have only inflamed popular zeal for Khomeini's Islamic revolution and its militant embrace of Muslim fundamentalism. When Parliamentary Speaker Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani delivered his latest call to arms last week in the northeastern city of Mashad, thousands of cheering young men seemed ready to lay down their lives for the cause of their homeland. "Every day," reports a Western visitor to Tehran, "there are parades for people going to the front. People are still chanting, 'Death to America! Death to Saddam!' Death to just about everything...
Both the drawn-out tragedy on the ground and the attack in the air reflected an increasing sense of anarchy in southern Sudan, which the rebels have virtually severed from the rest of the country. Since 1983 the insurgents have violently resisted efforts of the Muslim-dominated government in Khartoum to impose its customs on the Christian and pagan south. Led by John Garang, a Christian from the Dinka tribe, the rebels have especially chafed against the "September laws" of former President Gaafar Nimeiri. Imposed in September 1983, the Islamic laws have been applied with unusual severity to all Sudanese...
When Nimeiri was ousted in a bloodless coup last year by his Defense Minister, Abdul Rahman Suwar al Dahab, it seemed peace might be restored. But before long, the fighting resumed. In May the first national election since 1968 brought to power Sadiq el Mahdi, leader of the moderate Muslim Umma Party. Making peace his top priority, the Oxford-educated Sadiq lost no time in arranging a meeting in Ethiopia with Garang, who holds a doctorate in agricultural economics from Iowa State. Yet the two leaders could not concur on terms for a cease-fire. Last week Sadiq agreed...
...confrontation between the Prime Minister and Bhutto began early last week when Junejo saw that Independence Day celebrations planned for Lahore might lead to violence and an embarrassingly poor turnout for the Muslim League. In a nationally televised speech, he canceled the league's rally in Lahore and asked the opposition to cooperate. Said he: "There are certain opportunist politicians who want to use Independence Day for their own political objectives...