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...jihad was Reid's chosen path. He took the name Abdel Rahim and on his trips back to Brixton harangued listeners. "We warned him where the extremist ideas he was adopting had led people," says Baker. "But he found our beliefs too passive, too slow." Reid told his parents he was going overseas. Robin says his son sent him a letter from Iran, but if Reid visited there at all, it was probably on his way to a madrasah, an Islamic school, in Pakistan. In 1999 and 2000, Reid appears to have spent much of his time in Pakistan...
...From Pakistan to Paris By 1998, jihad was Reid's chosen path. He took the name Abdel Rahim and on his trips back to Brixton harangued listeners. "We warned him where the extremist ideas he was adopting had led people," says Baker. "But he found our beliefs too passive, too slow." Reid told his parents he was going overseas. Robin says his son sent him a letter from Iran, but if Reid visited there at all, it was probably on his way to a madrasah, an Islamic school, in Pakistan. In 1999 and 2000, Reid appears to have spent much...
...start of the intifadeh, the Palestinian uprising against Israel. He insists that his "Death to Israel" rants, which he has since dropped, were "political rhetoric against Israeli oppression" and not a call to violence against civilians. But terrorists did visit his conferences. Among them: Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, later convicted in the WTC bombing, and economist Ramadan Abdullah Shallah, who helped direct al-Arian's U.S.F.-based World and Islam Studies Enterprise (WISE) and turned up in Syria in 1995 as head of Islamic Jihad...
...McDonald's came up with a unique promotion during Ramadan two years ago - giving 25 cents (American) out of every sandwich sold to that country's 'Al Quds Intifada Fund,' which supported Palestinian children's hospitals treating casualties of the uprising. And in Egypt, local marketers chose singer Shaaban Abdel-Rahim to perform the jingle for its new McFalafel sandwich - a national hero for his hit song "I Hate Israel," which had become the signature tune of the boycott...
...Needless to say, neither the Saudi intifada promotion nor Egypt's choice of pop star had head office approval, and the Abdel Rahim campaign was quickly dropped following protests by the American Jewish Committee. Still, they appeared to have been sound local business decisions in consumer markets where anti-U.S. anger had threatened McDonald's revenues. Mohammed Emam, marketing coordinator of the Saudi company that owns the local franchise told a Saudi newspaper, "We want to prove to people that even though McDonald's is an American franchise, it cares about the plight of the Palestinians...