What's the difference between mufti and plainclothes?
Mufti
Definition:
(n.) An official expounder of Mohammedan law.
(n.) Citizen's dress when worn by a naval or military officer; -- a term derived from the British service in India.
Example Sentences:
(1) The grand mufti of Australia, Ibrahim Abu Mohammad, said Islam did not need a reformation “since the normative principles and practices of the religion allow Muslims to harmoniously coexist within pluralist societies that are based on the universal values of compassion and justice”.
(2) Binyamin Netanyahu’s recent outburst about the grand mufti and the Holocaust would be ludicrous if it hadn’t been so utterly ill judged.
(3) They will be reassuring and a shoulder to cry on, and will always text you a reminder when it’s mufti day.
(4) The election of Shady Alsuleiman, our first Australian-born imam, as ANIC’s president is an important resetting point.” Josh Frydenberg says grand mufti had 'graphic failure' of leadership Read more Fierravanti-Wells had herself called for a stronger statement from the grand mufti.
(5) Three categories of mercury poisoning were defined in the survey described by Al-Mufti et al.
(6) The Grand Mufti has called on Dawn units to refrain from looting, and Al Hasi says he supports law and order.
(7) Australia’s grand mufti also reiterated his concerns, warning in a statement the rhetoric by some ministers could “set a dangerous precedent [and] have serious repercussions on the social fabric of Australian communities, and foster a discriminatory environment”.
(8) Josh Frydenberg says grand mufti had 'graphic failure' of leadership Read more At this point, a number of his colleagues – acting out of opportunism, bellicosity, or simple ignorance – chimed in.
(9) Five things Australia's grand mufti may or may not have said about the Paris attacks Read more The council referred to a 2014 statement from the grand mufti that said Isis were criminals “committing crimes against humanity and sins against God”.
(10) Although Saudi Arabia has given $100m (£60m) to the UN anti-terror programme and the country’s grand mufti has denounced Isis as “enemy number one”, radical Salafists across the Middle East receive ideological and material backing from within the kingdom.
(11) Libya's prime minister, Abdulah al-Thinni, this week railed against the broadcast, accusing the grand mufti of issuing "false fatwas", and urged parliament to sack Ghariani from his quasijudicial post.
(12) Five things Australia's grand mufti may or may not have said about the Paris attacks Read more “We will defeat these terrorists, and the strongest weapons we bring to this battle are ourselves, our values, our way of life,” he said.
(13) Last month Australia’s grand mufti, Ibrahim Abu Mohammed, announced he had made a mistake voting for Abbott.
(14) Australia’s grand mufti criticised by Coalition over Paris attack comments Read more “Megaphone politics not only distracts from this but has implications for our relationships with our neighbours,” she said.
(15) Although his comments stirred a storm of controversy between liberals and conservatives in the Egyptian press, the Mufti's position was accurate.
(16) Mufti Abdul Barkatulla, a former trustee of the mosque, says police were repeatedly asked to curb Hamza.
(17) He said that while Hitler did indeed meet the mufti, this happened after the Final Solution began.
(18) The grand mufti of al-Aqsa, Muhammad Ahmad Hussein, told the Guardian: “The problem has been the daily raids and assaults on al-Aqsa and the damage that has been done.
(19) And Haj Amin al-Husseini went to Hitler and said: ‘If you expel them, they’ll all come here [to Palestine].’” According to Netanyahu, Hitler then asked: “What should I do with them?” and the mufti replied: “Burn them.” Among those questioning Netanyahu’s interpretation of history was Prof Dan Michman, the head of the Institute of Holocaust Research at Bar-Ilan University and head of the International Institute for Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial centre.
(20) His outlandish idea, uttered in a speech, was that Hitler would have been happy with just expelling Jews if a Palestinian, the then grand mufti of Jerusalem , had not suggested annihilation instead.
Plainclothes
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Snipers fired from rooftops, and plainclothes Saleh supporters armed with automatic rifles, swords and batons attacked the protesters.
(2) Belmar said the officers were not wearing body cameras because they were plainclothes detectives.
(3) Plainclothes soldiers, one of them with a plastic-handled kitchen knife in the pocket of his shorts and a machete visible under his football shirt stopped and questioned any outsiders.
(4) When Mohamed ElBaradei arrived in Midan Giza, a traffic-snarled interchange on the west bank of the Nile, for Friday prayers, he saw a graphic illustration of Egypt under President Hosni Mubarak: neat rows of police and plainclothes security officers lining the streets to maintain calm.
(5) Numerous witnesses claim that Said, who had earlier posted an online video of local police officers apparently dividing up the spoils of a drug haul, was attacked in an internet cafe by the two plainclothes officials who kicked and punched him before eventually smashing his head against a marble table-top.
(6) Throughout the uprising, armed police in plainclothes roamed the streets of Suez, according to interior ministry documents compiled in the report.
(7) There were uniformed and plainclothed policemen, bodyguards for Lars that are with him 24 hours a day,” said Kolek.
(8) I have dozens of plainclothes police around my home.
(9) Plainclothes officers arrived at the homes of their targets with a list containing the names and photographs of local Christians, the church leader said.
(10) On 22 July, Iranian security officials wearing plainclothes raided the couple’s apartment and confiscated laptops and documents.
(11) It found Traore and another teenager were preparing to rob a construction site when a plainclothes officer gave chase, setting in motion a series of short pursuits that ended at the power station.
(12) Kamal Foroughi, a businessman who was working in Tehran as a consultant for the Malaysian national oil and gas company Petronas, was arrested in May 2011 when plainclothes officers picked him up from his flat in the Iranian capital.
(13) In central Chengdu, around 1,000 demonstrators waved Chinese flags and chanted, but appeared outnumbered by the massed ranks of paramilitary, uniformed and plainclothes police.
(14) Mark Whitby, who was also there, thought he saw a Pakistani terrorist being chased and gunned down by plainclothes policemen.
(15) Next a woman in a niqab in her 40s from a Paris suburb was grabbed by a plainclothes officer, who gripped her tightly and frog-marched her to another police bus.
(16) Eventually plainclothes police smashed his car window with a hammer but Besigye refused to leave.
(17) I liked how the walls were like a newspaper; people wrote things like, ‘Don’t go down this street, there are baltageya [plainclothes thugs] down here’.” That November, Abo Bakr joined a sea of protesters who flooded Mohamed Mahmoud Street, off Tahrir Square , trying to reach the interior ministry.
(18) The report also describes how a military officer ordered plainclothes police to carry firearms through the streets even after police had been officially evacuated from the city.
(19) Some pro-Mubarak forces appeared to be plainclothes police, while others involved in the assault in Tahrir Square were said to have been paid by the regime.
(20) A plainclothes police officer had just covered my camera lens, mentioned the words "hostile reconnaissance" and told me I would be followed around the city if I moved.