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Tuesday, March 7, 2000
Islamists’ Arrest Points To Education Problems Among Muslim Leaders
Last month an imprisonment case appeared in the top news of the media in Turkey. Known as "Cuppeli (Robe-wearing) Ahmet Hoca," Ahmet Unlu was arrested and the State Security Court (SSC) filed a lawsuit against him. He has been accused of provoking the people against the state and army, and of “creating hatred and discrimination among the people on a religious basis.”

Just months after announcing he did not mind extremist Hindus constructing a temple on the site of the Babri Masjid, the Indian chief minister of Uttar Pradesh has fired off another controversy. This time it is about introducing legislation banning the construction of religious places (especially mosques) without government approval.

According to Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky, a top Nigerian Islamic scholar and leader, the social ills of the country were the reason for the eruption of violence that claimed the lives of at least 300 and at most 1,000 in Kaduna riots flared by Christians protesting against the Muslim majority’s demands for Islamic Shari’a law.

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