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According to Farmer, the BCC has churches throughout the world. Disciples from his congregation recently set up parishes in Vienna and Prague. The Berlin church, which has 240 members, is the largest congregation meeting in the "godless, secular, humanistic" city, Farmer said...
...Israel and the creation of an Islamic state in the whole of Palestine as it was defined under the British mandate. Israel's peace partner, Yasser Arafat, has instead settled for limited self-rule in the West Bank and Gaza Strip as a prelude, he hopes, to a secular Palestinian state alongside Israel. The fear among Hamas followers is that if Arafat succeeds, their vision will die, so their group and a smaller offshoot, Islamic Jihad, have engaged in a terror spree that has claimed at least 123 lives since the peace accord was signed. If Hamas causes enough damage...
...time. Both, by their early 20s, had been clearly marked for membership in the Establishment by virtue of their accumulation of golden educational credentials. They filled their Administration with other Mandarins and, at least in the early going, tried to govern from the Mandarin mind-set, which is secular, rational and optimistic and seeks to solve problems by devising perfect systems run by experts...
...more direct than the ethereal style of his qawwali work. On Crest, he reels off spiraling vocals over a beat that is almost funky. Says Khan: "I am trying to give my voice greater range." Purists may not like the fact that he's recorded such brazenly entertaining secular songs. No matter. Get out your popcorn. The subtitles have melted away...
...grown concerned about the increasing influence of hard-line Muslims in a Bosnian government that has long pledged itself to a multiethnic state. President Alija Izetbegovic, a devout Muslim who was twice jailed under the communists for his religious activism, has always nurtured an ideal of Bosnia as a secular society that embraces Serb, Croat and Muslim alike. But now his vision is being challenged by a narrowed nationalistic focus...