11. Pakistan asserts that Kashmir, with a large Muslim majority, should have the right to vote on whether to join India or Pakistan. 12. Serbian election officials at polling stations poured copious amounts of plum brandy for visitors, warning that the Muslim majority would soon ban alcohol. 13. Serbs, historically allied with the Russians, ended up better equipped than the Muslim majority in Bosnia. 14. Some Christians worry that Palestinian self-rule may empower the Muslim majority and leave its Christian minority to languish. 15. Some local Christians acknowledged Thursday night that they were concerned about possible discrimination by the Muslim majority under Palestinian rule. 16. That means that if I show any vulnerability, the Muslim majority here will skin me alive and leave me as roadkill. 17. The Bosnian Croats refused, for example, to permit polls to open in the center of Zepce and Tesanj, which once had Muslim majorities. 18. The Kashmir Valley is largely Muslim, giving the state of Jammu and Kashmir a Muslim majority, the only state in India with that distinction. 19. The Muslim majority in Pakistan split from the Hindu majority in India soon after Britain withdrew. 20. The NATO peacekeeping force entered Kosovo two years ago to help end vicious ethnic fighting directed against the mostly Muslim ethnic Albanian majority in the region by Serbian forces. |
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