Some scholars have contended that the issue was a religious issue, between the Muslim lowland population desiring independence while the highland Christian population sought a union with Ethiopia.

Some Muslim scholars, have noted the similarity to the Greek " peryklytos " which can be translated as " admirable one "; or in Arabic, " Ahmad ".

Some Muslim scholars argue that the Gospel of Barnabas has been modified, thus inconsistency is observed.

Some Muslim scholars state that this references the Mahdi, an eschatological figure in Islam, who will help defeat al-Masih ad-Dajjal ( lit " the false messiah ", cf.

Some Muslim religious organizations cite this work in support of the Islamic view of Jesus ; in particular, the Islamic apologists Rashid Rida in Egypt and Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi in Pakistan gave it qualified acceptance.

Some of the reforms that were actually put in place, such as the abolition of the traditional Muslim veil for women and the opening of a number of co-educational schools, quickly alienated many tribal and religious leaders.

Some Muslim scholars, such as Ibn Kathir and Kisa ' i, reproduced Jewish traditions, transmitted through early Jewish converts to Islam, regarding Isaiah.

Some Muslim majority countries have held public gay events, as in Turkey or Azerbaijan.

Some Christians favor political and administrative decentralization of the government, with separate Muslim and Christian sectors operating within the framework of a confederation.

Some groups also sprang up including the National Union for Liberation led by John Osmena and Diosdado Macapagal, the Mindanao Alliance, the Muslim Federal Party, the Pusyon Bisaya, and the Young Philippines.

Some scholars emphasize that its higher rate is also a sign of submission and acceptance of Muslim rule, and some argue humiliation for failing to embrace Islam.

Some Serbian intellectuals sought to unite all of the Southern, Balkan Slavs, whether Catholic ( Croats, Slovenes ), Muslim ( Bosnian Muslims, Sandžak ), or Orthodox ( Montenegrins, Serbs, Macedonians ), under their rule ( under the so-called panserbic ideologue, accordingly as " Serbian nation of three faiths ").

Some ghulat Shi ' a Muslim sects also regard their founders as in some special sense divine incarnations ( hulul ).

Some Muslim parents, residing in Western countries mimick modern Christmas celebration traditions, as a means of trying to make Ramadan a more enjoyable time for their children who are too young to fast and understand the spiritual significance of the holy month.

Some call themselves Muslim, and some call themselves Hindu.

Some of the largest Muslim countries, including Indonesia and Bangladesh have largely secular constitutions and laws, but with Islamic law provisions in family law.

Some continuity theorists point to earlier intellectual revolutions occurring in the Middle Ages, usually referring to either a European " Renaissance of the 12th century " or a medieval " Muslim scientific revolution ", as a sign of continuity.

Some members of Scholars for 9 / 11 Truth believe that the man in this videotape is not Osama bin Laden at all, citing differences in weight and facial features, along with his wearing of a gold ring, which is forbidden by Muslim law, and writing with his right hand although bin Laden is left-handed.

Professor Dwight Reynolds describes the subsequent transformations of the Arabic version: " Some of the earlier Persian tales may have survived within the Arabic tradition altered such that Arabic Muslim names and new locations were substituted for pre-Islamic Persian ones, but it is also clear that whole cycles of Arabic tales were eventually added to the collection and apparently replaced most of the Persian materials.

Some Muslims often regard adherents of the Bahá ' í faith as apostates from Islam, and there have been cases in some Muslim countries where Baha ' is have been harassed and persecuted.

Some Islamic scholars point out it is important to understand the hadith in its proper historical context: it was written when the nascent Muslim community in Medina was fighting for its existence, and the enemies of Islam encouraged rebellion and discord within the community .< ref >

Some Muslim scholars assert that this prohibition actually addresses only the abuse of alcohol, but they do not have sufficient numbers or authority to override the familiar total prohibition.

** Jamal Badawi: Muslim and Non-Muslim Relations: Reflections on Some Qur ’ anic Texts 5 April 2005

Some 77 percent of the Indo-Fijians are Hindu, with a further 16 percent being Muslim and 6 percent Christian.

Some Muslim girls wear a veil and many Sikh boys a turban in addition to the school uniform.

Some minorities within congregations that joined the PKN decided to leave the church and associated themselves individually with one of the other Reformed churches.

Some proponents of school vouchers, including the Sutherland Institute and many supporters of the Utah voucher effort, see it as a remedy for the negative cultural impact caused by under-performing public schools, which falls disproportionately on demographic minorities.

Some younger activists, seeing " gay and lesbian " as increasingly normative and politically conservative, began using queer as a defiant statement of all sexual minorities and gender variant people — just as the earlier liberationists had done with gay.

Some Vietnamese and Chinese minorities remain, particularly in the towns, but many left in two waves-after independence in the late 1940s and again after 1975.

Some Poles remained in the previously Polish-ruled territories in the east which were annexed by the USSR, resulting in the present-day Polish-speaking minorities in Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine, although many Poles were expelled or emigrated from those areas to areas within Poland's new borders.

Some television networks are aimed at ethnic minorities, including Spanish language networks Univisión and Telemundo.

Some advocates for the rights of sexual minorities resist linking that cause with the concept that sexuality is biologically determined or fixed at birth.

Some analysts have noted a backlash of resentment from excluded groups, in particular the sizeable Chinese and Indian Malaysian minorities.

Some minorities living in England have stated that they still view the flag with suspicion: during a poll of readers of New Nation, " most black people interviewed said they felt alienated by the flag of St George and still associated it with the BNP ".

Some minorities resent the privileges granted the Catholic church as other religious groups were actively or passively discouraged His critics hold that Duplessis's inherently-corrupt patronage politics, his reactionary conservatism, his emphasis on traditional family and religious values, his anachronistic anti-union stance, rural focus and his preservation and promotion of Catholic Church institutions over the development of a secular social infrastructure akin to that underway in most of the postwar West, stunted Quebec's social and economic development by at least a decade.

Some, however, have considered the implementation of this law unrealistic and concerns have been made that it will drive people away from Abkhazia and hurt the independent press due to a significant share of non-Abkhaz speakers among ethnic minorities as well as Abkhaz themselves, and a shortage of teachers of Abkhaz.

Some of them are scattered among the Han Chinese or other ethnic minorities.

Some, especially those who speak English and are influenced by international discourses around sexual minorities may identify as transgender or transsexual women.

Some minorities ( such as blacks and Hispanics ) have consistently tested worse than whites on virtually all standardized tests, even after controlling for socioeconomic status.

Some of these communities preserved much of their traditional culture in spite of a long lasting communist government policies aimed at assimilation of non-Polish cultural and linguistic minorities.

Some feel that in the near future, Church Street may no longer be the " heart " of the gay community, yet others feel this has no validity at all, judging by the large crowds of gay men that are still prevalent on Church Street especially during the summer months, giving rise to debate over whether Toronto really needs an enclave for sexual minorities.

Some minorities are so relatively large or historically or otherwise important that the system is set up in a way to guarantee them comprehensive protection and political representation.

Some believe that these moves prompted the nationalist Moldovan Popular Front to tone down its pro-Romanian line and speak up for the rights of minorities.

Some characters used by ethnic minorities in China, such as Mongolian characters and Tibetan characters ( GB 16959-1997 and GB / T 20542-2006 ), have been added as well, which accounts for the renaming of the standard.

Some of these groups are also religious minorities.

Some liberal Hindu reform movements, especially those in the West, also support social acceptance of gays, lesbians and other gender minorities.

Some of his accomplishments include passing legislation making banks dispel lending policies that were restrictive to minorities, providing leadership for retaining a Cleveland Browns team in the NFL ( after then-Browns team owner Art Modell moved to Baltimore with all former Browns players and personnel to form the Baltimore Ravens ) as well as building a new stadium for the Cleveland Browns, and construction of the Gateway stadium development.

Some also allege that as Muslim minorities are bigger in many European countries than in the U. S., they influenced the movement.

Some researchers also hypothesize that in some cases, minorities, especially African American students, may stop trying in school because they do not want to be accused of “ acting white ” by their peers.