61.  The bishops, along with evangelical Christian denominations and Muslim groups, recently filed briefs with the Supreme Court opposing doctor-assisted suicide.

62.  The demonstrations have been condemned by mainstream Muslim groups.

63.  The demand from the Muslim group here, Abu Sayyaf, would appear to present the Bush administration with the first test of this new policy.

64.  The incident also suggested a growing role for militants with links to hardline Muslim groups that developed during the guerrilla war in Afghanistan.

65.  The government said the men arrested had ties to Muslim militant groups in Malaysia and Indonesia.

66.  The group opposes letting Burma into Asean until it restores democracy and stops repressing Muslim groups.

67.  The landlords are mostly Nubians, a predominantly Muslim group of Sudanese origin.

68.  The militant Muslim groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad are believed to provide financial support to families of suicide bombers, and reportedly promise to replace demolished homes.

69.  The military attack launched Saturday followed months of kid-glove treatment of the Abu Sayyaf, a self-proclaimed Muslim extremist group that turned kidnapping for ransom into a local industry.

70.  The municipality insisted that the land had been taken unlawfully by the Muslims and urged Israeli authorities to evict the Muslim group.