Word: urban
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...With millions of rural Indonesians pouring into the cities, this Salafi message has trickled into urban society, chipping away at Indonesia's multiethnic heritage. At many public schools in Jakarta, female students and teachers are strongly encouraged to wear the jilbab on Fridays-and face stigmatization if they don't. In 2005, the nation's top religious body, the Indonesia Ulema Council, issued a fatwa stating that "religious teachings influenced by pluralism, liberalism and secularism are against Islam." Equally worrisome, some of Indonesia's homegrown terrorists, whose bombing campaign has claimed hundreds of lives since 2002, profess their violence...
...hopes the spate of publicity generated overseas for Shanghai's Art Deco tradition might serve to boost his conservationist cause. But getting Shanghai itself to take notice is a slow process. A delegation of Shanghainese officials-representing government, urban planning, preservation and business development-attended the Miami event. "I invited them all to see the same exhibition in Shanghai, and they never came," says Erh. "It's a joke. I spent $3,750 of my own money to ship the pictures to Miami, when they could have seen them right here in Shanghai...
...late-night revelry in Adhamiya, where shops and restaurants stayed open later. "Nobody asked us if we were Shi'ite or Sunni," says al-Shammari. "And we never thought to ask each other. I have friends I didn't know were Shi'ite until quite recently." Among the urban educated classes, it was considered unsophisticated and politically incorrect to ask people their sect, though there are other ways to find out (see box). Some of the people mentioned in this article agreed to be interviewed only if their names were changed. Many of Iraq's tribes have always included clans...
...from HUPD,” he said. “We haven’t, in my tenure, had something like this happen; we’ve always been concerned that [it would]. Students across campus leave their doors unlocked and...tend to forget that they are in an urban environment here...
...band. In contrast to Jones herself, the rest of the band members were all male and all young. One guitarist was wearing a black and orange pin-striped suit with a bright teal tie, another was dressed like a 1950s gangster, and the third looked like an Urban Outfitters version of a Buddhist monk. Standing in the middle of this motley crew, surrounded by an exorbitant amount of various instruments, Jones looked like a little girl lost in a strange, musical land. She, however, was anything but a little girl to her group of boys, even joking at one point...