Word: muslims
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...find it difficult to carry out the promised withdrawal under mounting pressure from Islamic fundamentalist parties and a military establishment that dominates Pakistan?s political life. For the military, maintaining a state of confrontation with India validates its central role in Pakistani society, while for the fundamentalists "liberating" predominantly Muslim Kashmir from Hindu Indian rule is a jihad. Amid rampant poverty and a rising tide of fundamentalism, the Kashmir crisis threatens to rattle Pakistan?s fragile stability ?- think Afghanistan with nuclear weapons...
Kosovo is no longer solely a European concern. It's a global issue. Muslims in Kosovo do not feel safe under the umbrella of nato because it is the agent of the U.S., which we openly term an enemy of the Muslim world. So let the U.N. assume responsibility for solving the crisis. We don't want to see any more pictures of war-torn Kosovo and the miserable plight of its people. We want the conflict properly settled soon. ALIYA SHAHNOOR AMEEN Chittagong, Bangladesh...
...government vote rigging. But that may not be necessary: The president will be appointed by a parliament composed of the 462 legislators elected Monday, together with 38 appointed by the military and 200 nominated by the present military-backed government. Add to that an opposition fractured between secular and Muslim parties, and it?s likely that despite the democratic breakthrough, the country?s next president will be decided in a series of backroom deals...
...FACULTY ADVISORY COMMITTEEMathew MaclnnisCrimsonSource: Foundation Web siteThe Harvard Foundation for Race andIntercultural Relations is governed by student andfaculty advisory committees. The vast majority ofthe Foundation's faculty are not scholars in raceor ethnicity.Ali S. A. AsaniProfessor of the Practice of Indo-Muslim Languagesand CulturesJorge I. DominguezDirector of the Weatherhead Center forInterational AffairsDavid L. EvansSenior Admissions Officer, Office of AdmissionsWilliam M. GelbartProfessor of Molecular and Cellular BiologyJ. Woodland HastingsMangelsdorf Professor of Natural SciencesLeo Ou-Fan LeeProfessor of Chinese LiteratureKarel F. LiemBigelow Professor of Ichthyology and Dunster HouseMasterJames J. McCarthyAgassiz Professor of Biological Oceanography,Pforzheimer House MasterMichael ShinagelDean of Continuing Education...
...While serving in the U.S. Army, Mohamed is alleged to have trained Muslim volunteers in New York to fight in Afghanistan. "Somebody had to know he was coming up here and training people," says Dowell. "This case is going to highlight the need for a hard look at the effect of interagency rivalry and of budget cuts on the state of U.S. intelligence." Convicting Mohamed may depend on being able to prove his involvement in a conspiracy -- after all, simply providing training to Muslim fundamentalists who later turned against the U.S. is a charge that could apply more widely...