Word: orthodox
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...Some people are adopting more puritanical versions of Islamic practice, the surveys show. But most are finding solace in characteristically tolerant forms that blend the Koran with local traditions like Javanese mysticism. Until the bombings, Makruf didn't know that a small Islamist group was combining an ultra-orthodox reading of the holy book with avowedly anti-Western militancy and was waging terrorist attacks in the name of those beliefs. "I was surprised by the existence of Jemaah Islamiah," he says. "In everyday life, they were not part of Islamic society here...
RISE OF WAHHABIS Early 1800s The Wahhabis, an orthodox Islamic sect that eventually allied with the prominent al Saud family, launch outward from central Arabia, invading Hejaz and Syria, taking Mecca...
After he died in 1303, the monastery fell into a period of ruin, but was revived by Ivan the Terrible in the 17th century after several visions of Prince Daniel were heralded as miracles and the Russian Orthodox Church canonized...
Okhotin’s brother said once again that he believes Andrew’s Baptist faith in a country dominated by the Russian Orthodox Church motivated the judge to issue a guilty verdict...
...Palestinians really believed the cease-fire declared by Islamic militants two months ago would hold. But that hardly mitigated the shock at the brutality that ripped it apart last week. On Tuesday night a suicide bomber blew himself up aboard Bus No. 2 as it carried many ultra-Orthodox Jewish families home from prayers at Jerusalem's sacred Western Wall. A bomb laced with ball bearings killed 20, wounded 100 and left searing images of tiny corpses on stretchers, screaming toddlers with scorched faces and hysterical parents. Six of the dead were children under 16. MARTYRS! REVENGE! shouted newspaper headlines...