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During the century after Muhammad's death in 632, Muslim conquerors established sway from Spain to the borders of India. Islamic scholars of the era emphasized militaristic verses of the Koran over those that counsel peacemaking. Muslims spoke of the earth as being divided between the dar ul- Islam (realm of Islam) and the dar ul-harb (realm of war), implying a need for ongoing combat to extend the faith's domain. In succeeding centuries, as Muslims consolidated a multinational empire, the language of militant jihad faded...
...problem." There is a wide range of political beliefs within the anti-war movement, so no one agenda will be acceptable to all. In our opinion, the U.S. government is the most powerful force stifling democracy and upholding the dictators and autocrats of the region (i.e., the Shah, Zia Ul-Haq, King Fahd, Hafez Assad and before August, Saddam Hussein himself...
...late Indian Prime Minister the same aristocratic sense of destiny. No other politicians -- certainly no men -- were capable of leading their countries at the time of their ascendancy. Aquino and Chamorro united quarrelsome opposition groups. Only Bhutto had the charisma to overcome the puritanical appeal of Mohammed Zia ul-Haq's Islamic regime. But winning was the easy part. Ruling has proved problematic...
...moment, the alliance is savoring its defeat of Bhutto, who had seemed unstoppable since she returned from exile in 1986 to restore elected government and avenge her father's death at the hands of the late President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq. Bhutto stormed the country as the savior of democracy and won enough seats in the 1988 race to form a government...
...action in the courts on the grounds that it was "illegal and unconstitutional" and based on "a pack of lies." She accused the army of forcing the decision on Ishaq, who has close ties to the military. Ishaq previously served as a Finance Minister under General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, Pakistan's military dictator for 11 years and the man who had Bhutto's father, former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, hanged in 1979. "It is the army that is running the show," she charged at a press conference in Karachi. Bhutto also announced that her party would participate...