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Fearing that radical Islamist leaders would use their Friday prayers to whip up anti-government fervor, the usually lethargic regime moved up Gibbons' trial, originally scheduled for Saturday, to Thursday. For the most part, the strategy worked: the Muslim day of prayer witnessed only one demonstration, itself relatively small and easily dispersed...
...gets a seat at the table when it comes to governing the country," he told TIME. "Everyone participates, and everyone's voice is heard." Many non-Malays don't agree - and their sense of alienation starts early. Government primary schools that used to be essentially secular now feature Islamic prayer halls. Today, only 6% of Chinese parents send their children to such schools, while in the 1970s more than half did. Chinese students have a much harder time securing places in Malaysia's public universities because of quotas, so those with sufficient funds head overseas. Many do not return. Those...
...difficulties in following exacting religious requirements while living at Harvard. In keeping the Sabbath on Friday evenings, Wertheimer said, he sometimes finds himself “racing the sunset” to complete a paper. Siddiqi said that exam schedules can prevent Muslims from completing a religiously mandated midday prayer. Siddiqi added that as a neurobiology concentrator, he regularly confronts questions about his faith and often engages in discussions with faculty members about reconciling religion and science. Panelist Allison A. Frost ’08, a member of both the Harvard-Radcliffe Catholic Student Organization and Harvard Christian Impact, said...
...cross westward for Pilates classes or to go shopping, and Israelis venture into the Old City for tasty hummus and a puff on a narghile. One recent Friday, a procession of black-coated ultra-Orthodox Jews hurrying through Damascus Gate toward the Western Wall ran into a crowd of prayer-going Arabs. They all stopped to gape at a large, dead shark hanging from a hook outside a butcher's shop. It was one of those fleeting moments when Arabs and Jews forgot their differences and stared in awe at one of God's truly scary creatures. But it doesn...
With his hands raised prayer-like in front of his face in a somphea, the most deferential Cambodian greeting, Kaing Guek Eav didn't look like a man who once governed a prison where some 16,000 men, women and children were imprisoned and later executed. Wearing a white polo shirt and with his graying hair neatly combed, the rail-thin 65-year-old appeared relaxed as he rose, pressed his palms together and addressed the United Nations-backed Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal on Tuesday at the first public hearing of a former member of Pol Pot's brutal regime...