Word: plights
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...Laskar jihad was founded in 2000 by an unassuming Islamic teacher named Ja'far Umar Thalib. A 40-year-old from the east Java heartland of Indonesian Islam, Ja'far's mild demeanor disguises a fierce devotion to what he sees as the plight of Muslims in Indonesia. Like many of Southeast Asia's radical Muslims, he spent several years in Pakistan and Afghanistan in the mid-1980s, both studying and fighting against the Soviet invasion. (Ja'far says he met Osama bin Laden then, but was unimpressed: "He couldn't even read the Koran without stumbling...
...kind in the Muslim world, took only seven weeks. The fabric woven with only one strand, religious fervor, could not withstand the pressure of modern technology." For its part, al-Jazeera had repeatedly promoted the Taliban's military prowess. While the network still relentlessly airs stories about the plight of Afghan refugees, it recently showed a program that denounced the Taliban's extremism and gender oppression...
...damn America for the collective suffering of all humanity. Theirs is a unidirectional accountability. They blame our sanctions for starving Iraqi children, but they excuse the tyrant who squanders his nation’s income building weapons of mass destruction. They blame our war of self-defense for the plight of Afghan refugees, but they fail to condemn those whose hatred made war necessary...
...steady job and negotiates the pitfalls of a long-term relationship. We will not dissolve into tears when well-meaning neighbors ask us when are we getting married, already. We will not stomp up the stairs and kick our bedroom door closed if someone questions our take on the plight of Afghan refugees. We will, in short, behave like a real person...
...Miss Saigon is well known. That familiarity should function as an asset, but instead the creators use it as a crutch, never bothering to flesh out details or develop characters that seem human, let alone worthy of care. Adapted from the opera Madame Butterfly, Miss Saigon follows the plight of a young Vietnamese woman, who takes up residence with an American G.I., only to be separated two weeks later when Saigon falls. The aftermath of their brief time together, including the future of the child she bears him, form what the show calls its plot...