61.   Islamic tradition holds that the Prophet Mohammed said that the umrah during Ramadan is equal to a complete pilgrimage.

62.   Legislators also objected to a Bharatiya Janata proposal to scrap the special rights that permit Muslims to marry, divorce and write wills according to Islamic traditions.

63.   Linked to Saudi Arabia by the King Fahd Causeway, Bahrain has become a close-to-home escape in the region dominated by strict Islamic traditions.

64.   Local folkloric traditions, firmly rooted in Islamic traditions, are being revived throughout the country.

65.   Later, the protests began to register opposition to the government of Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan, who supports strengthening ties with other Muslim nations and encouraging Islamic traditions.

66.   Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, who founded modern Turkey along strictly secular lines and banned Islamic traditions, was a World War I hero.

67.   Most people bury their dead immediately in keeping with strict Islamic tradition.

68.   Most women wear headscarves in line with Islamic tradition and there is little entertainment beyond a few fast food restaurants.

69.   Newspapers quoted local officials as saying the number of deaths was difficult to establish because Islamic tradition required that the dead are promptly buried.

70.   Religious leaders, however, bitterly oppose the law, saying that marrying without parental consent violates Islamic tradition.