Word: tribalized
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...courage to come up and claim the infernal act in their name. Even the often-mentioned Osama bin Laden has apparently denied involvement. This is significant. It was obviously an act of blood revenge, a subject about which anthropologists have long written about in terms of the tribal codes of the Middle East. There is, regrettably, nothing very surprising in this. There had been too much murder going on in Israel and the West Bank for no extreme reprisals to take place. Many of us writing about this area had warned of the terrible dangers, the uncontrollable anger that...
...brand of Islam which rapidly spread across British India and central Asia. It was picked up 20 years ago as a God-given practice, the true path, by some village Afghans along Pakistan's border. As the Taliban they imposed their version, which draws heavily from their own austere tribal traditions, on a nation exhausted after years of civil war. While the intellectual underpinnings are similar, Ahmed Rashid, author of Taliban, Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia, a definitive history of the Taliban writes, "the Taliban were to take these beliefs to an extreme which the original Deobandis...
...Molotov cocktails, which in turn were fueled by a varied catalog of intolerance: disputes over who could hang their flags from which lampposts, access for Protestants to shops in the Catholic zone, even which side of the street Catholic parents were walking on when school ended last June. The tribal talk was a depressing illustration of why Northern Ireland's peace process now seems to be sinking back into mutual recrimination and tit-for-tat violence...
...were carved several centuries after the Queen's lifetime, they contain priceless information about her kingdom's political and social history, including a chronology of Sabaean kings (the first that researchers have found), as well as the names of other important visitors to Mahram Bilqis and their genealogies and tribal affiliations. Since some of the names are female, one of them could be that of the Queen of Sheba...
...beautiful and interesting excursions, the country outside Jinghong provides endless choices. Walkers can enjoy jungle jaunts along the Mekong and through Dai or Hani villages (see DETOUR). The main draw is the cultural diversity of tribal minorities. Predominantly populated by the Buddhist Dai, Banna is ethnically linked to the hill tribes of Laos, Burma and northern Thailand. Other smaller groups in the area are the Hani and Lahu peoples, mainly of Tibetan stock. Known for their hospitality and resistance to assimilation, the indigenous cultures provide a color and individualism very different from that found in other, more monolithic parts...