Word: sunni
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Nawaz Sharif may hold moderate views, but human rights activists fear the imposition of Shari'a may unleash an army of zealots. Minorities are worried too. Nearly 15% of Pakistan's Muslims are Shi'ite, and in several cities their mosques and schools have been attacked by Sunni extremists. Last week, after the murder in Islamabad of a Sunni extremist leader and three companions, his followers retaliated by burning down a mosque and several homes belonging to Shi'ites...
Iran and Afghanistan, two of the most profoundly fundamentalist Muslim countries, sit side by side, but common faith doesn't make them friendly. In fact, each despises the other's brand of Islam. Now Iran's Shi'ite leaders and the Sunni Taliban militia that has nearly succeeded in imposing its rule over most of Afghanistan are threatening to turn an ancient theological schism into a fighting...
...ruling Taliban seized an opposition stronghold. Tehran also has a longstanding loyalty to the beleaguered anti-Taliban opposition. "Iran and the Taliban are deeply suspicious of each other," says TIME Middle East bureau chief Scott MacLeod. Iran's Shiite Muslim tradition is at odds with the Taliban's extreme Sunni interpretation. "The Iranians view the Taliban as medieval, as giving Islam a bad name," says MacLeod. The Taliban, for its part, is reported to have massacred Shiites after recently seizing opposition strongholds...
...every secret cell around the globe. Though he has denied responsibility for some of the attacks, bin Laden is still widely considered the world's prime villain after the legendary terrorist Carlos the Jackal; the State Department last year labeled bin Laden "one of the most significant sponsors of Sunni Islamic terrorist groups." He seeks to overthrow the Saudi royal family and drive U.S. forces out of Saudi Arabia, away from its holy cities, Mecca and Medina. Bin Laden is nearly everyone's favorite suspect this time too--largely because he is the obvious one. Newsday reported on Sunday that...
...February, Sunni Khalid, 38, the network's only black foreign reporter, filed a lawsuit charging that while based in Cairo, he was paid less than other foreign correspondents and denied a promotion despite a favorable review and several high-profile assignments. Khalid, who is a Muslim, also charged that foreign editor Loren Jenkins referred to Arabs as "rag heads" in a meeting--a claim NPR has acknowledged by disciplining Jenkins. But NPR managing editor Bill Buzenberg insists that Khalid "got to Cairo and never applied himself...