Religious turbulence hits Indonesia by Marianne Kearney in Jakarta, Indonesia Sunday 09 October 2005 9:25 AM GMT The attacks have been a blot on Indonesia's religious tolerance A spate of recent church closures and attacks on the compound of a sect has highlighted a debate raging within the Indonesian Muslim community over religious freedom and tolerance. On 21 September, hundreds of young men attacked the compound of a small sect, the A...
Angered by Iraq war, bombers driven to suicide attacks, say friends 12:20 PM EDT Jul 15 SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI LEEDS, England (AP) - Shahzad Tanweer, the 22-year-old son of an affluent Pakistani-born businessman, turned to Islam, the religion of his birth, a few years ago. The transformation was gradual, but then his relentless reading of the Qur'an and daily prayers became almost an obsession, his friends told The Associated Press. He became withdrawn...
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/050603/w060360.html War crimes court asked to investigate 7 suspects in Srebrenica execution video 02:40 PM EDT Jun 03 BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro (AP) - Prosecutors asked a war crimes court Friday to investigate seven men suspected of being the killers seen this week in video footage of the Srebrenica massacre of 1995. Ten suspects were arrested after the video was aired Wednesday on Serbian TV. Four remain in custod...
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/050603/w060340.html Bosnian mother turns on TV to see son executed in Srebrenica massacre video 02:36 PM EDT Jun 03 SAMIR KRILIC SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) - Shaken and in tears, Nura Alispahic said Friday she turned on the TV to watch the news - then saw a gruesome video of the shooting deaths of her teenage son Azmir and five other Muslims from Srebrenica by Serb forces in July 1995. "I saw with my own...
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