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  • The growing relevance of the Council of Ulemas is partly a result of its budget, which some analysts believe is growing.

    Group of Muslim scholars gains political clout in Indonesia 2008

  • “I don’t think the Council of Ulemas is going to turn Indonesia into the Sudan,” said Sidney Jones, director of the International Crisis Group in Jakarta, citing “many other balancing forces.”

    Group of Muslim scholars gains political clout in Indonesia 2008

  • Beyond that, broad anti-pornography legislation that had been championed by the Council of Ulemas and its allies in Parliament has been scaled back after a public backlash that included large street protests.

    Group of Muslim scholars gains political clout in Indonesia 2008

  • JAKARTA: In a sign of its growing prominence, the Council of Ulemas in Indonesia has moved its headquarters from the basement of a major mosque here into an expensive new office tower in the heart of the capital.

    Group of Muslim scholars gains political clout in Indonesia 2008

  • The delegation was formed after intense negotiations of Ulemas of federal government funded Wafaqul Madaris with the President, Prime Minister and Chaudhary Shujaat Hussain throughout the last two days.

    Musharraff indecision prolongs seiege of Lal Mosque 2007

  • Ulemas have been asking for providing them access to Lal Mosque to meet Ghazi Rashid and bring out any wounded or dead bodies out of the two besieged seminaries.

    Musharraff indecision prolongs seiege of Lal Mosque 2007

  • And all their targets are Pashtoon elders, Pashtoon politicians, Pashtoon singers, Pashtoon Ulemas, Pashtoon areas and Pashtoon assets.

    Music under Attack 2007

  • The semi-official Assembly of the Ulemas, or Islamic clerics, said Wednesday that Gibbon's action was "another ring in the circles of plotting against Islam."

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • Apparently a last ditch effort was made by the government by sending a delegation of federal ministers, Ulemas and social workers led by president Muslim league (Q), Chaudhary Shujaat Hussain to lure the besieged administrator of Lal Mosque Ghazi Rashid out of the mosque premises on the pretext of negotiations and taking away the injured and dead bodies from the twin seminaries.

    Musharraff indecision prolongs seiege of Lal Mosque 2007

  • The intervention of Supreme Court in the matter helped Ulemas cause as well.

    Musharraff indecision prolongs seiege of Lal Mosque 2007

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