| Not only have you joined the ranks of the morally obtuse, but you have done so with an arrogance that would astound a mullah issuing a fatwa. |
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| The family gathers near sunset in the presence of a mullah, who reads from the Qu'ran and recites prayers for the dead over the food. |
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| The samaj deals with issues such as the maintenance of the local mosque, support of a mullah, and settling village disputes. |
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| This reflects, in part, the prevailingly local character of the interdiction, pronounced by a mullah or self-imposed by a body of listeners. |
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| It was first created in Lebanon in 1975 by Imam Mussa Sadr, an Iranian mullah who had become leader of the Shi'ite community there. |
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| Muslims in those hard corners don't need a mullah Martin Luther, they need freedom from fear. |
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| No women can become a priest in the Orthodox church or a mullah among Muslims. |
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| The defense minister of this short-lived republic was mullah Mustafa Barzani, the Iraqi-born father of Masoud Barzani. |
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| A Shiite mullah or imam of such huge importance can't be underestimated. |
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| Most town mosques are cared for and staffed by a mullah, who conducts religious services at the mosque as well as funerals, weddings, and blessings. |
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| Among Muslims, the mullah or priest will visit a house within three days of the birth of a boy to recite holy words, including the Call to Prayer, in the baby's ear. |
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| After weeping for Underhill, a man he can see only as an infidel, the mullah becomes his fast friend and, eventually, helps him escape. |
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| At the school, the children have to endure a bizarre lecture from an old mullah about how to wash their genitals after a nocturnal emission. |
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| When the village mullah hesitated at performing the nikah for such a young girl, the bridegroom put a gun to his head and the marriage was performed. |
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| Nonetheless, every decade or two, the British faced a major tribal revolt, typically led by a charismatic mullah. |
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| What will we do as regards the Iranians and their fight against the mullah regime? |
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| This is the utmost act of barbarism by a mullah regime that is taking the cultured and civilised people of Iran back to the stone ages. |
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| In the summer of 2006, an obscure mullah in Calcutta seemed desperate for some media attention. |
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| But their mullah, who at one stage was flown to Kabul on a NATO plane, was an impostor who pocketed the cash he was given. |
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| The mullah invited them in, as proper Afghan hospitality requires, and shared cups of green tea with his guests. |
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| As a revolutionary mullah, Rowhani fled Iran with the Ayatullah Khomeini in 1977 and lived with him in exile until the revolution was over. |
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| The elders included several camp representatives — there are 12 here — the fathers of children who had died and the camp mullah, Mualavi Musafer, also a refugee from Helmand. |
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| Absent is the fact that this mullah is inconsequential from both religious and spiritual points of views and that most Arabs and Muslims in Canada pay little or any attention to clerics from overseas. |
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| But what creed can he set against the mullah, the Beltway chickenhawk, the cyberpornographer, and the therapeutic statist? |
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| But the most evocative response came with a resounding laugh from the mullah and a kind of thigh-slapping comicality from his interpreter, a huge man with an eyepatch. |
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| Honorific titles given to scholars include shiekh, mullah and maulvi. |
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| Second is Mullah Abdur Razzaq, a founding member of the Taliban, who rose to head of the customs department and then interior minister. |
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| Men say that a certain religious Mullah has prophesied the immediate second coming of the Mahdi. |
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| But the shut-off proved to be short lived and by 2002 Pakistan was already providing sanctuary for Mullah Omar. |
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| Then, it was the arrest of a popular leader named Mullah Kareem without just cause that provided the spark. |
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| And the third was Mullah Adahdad, 45, an unarmed cleric who was attacked with a grenade and gunned down by several soldiers. |
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| A former senior commander who was close to Mullah Omar, Ibrahim had been languishing in Pakistani jails for the past five years. |
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| It became known as Mullah fm and Fazlullah as the Radio Mullah. |
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| I presumed Mullah Omar had filled such an important post with yet another madrasah-educated Koran-basher, but I couldn't have been more wrong. |
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| He's a very complex character and it would be an error to just mythologise, demonise or parody him as a Mad Mullah. |
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