Word: ahmad
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Believers revived the term in modern times as Muslim areas fell under Western control or influence. One of the first to do so was Muhammad Ahmad, the 19th century Mahdi who raised an Islamic insurgency against British colonialism in the Sudan in the 1880s. The Ottoman Turks declared jihad against Britain during World War I. Calls to holy war took on new urgency, and new meaning, with the creation of Israel in 1948. Since then the term has been used -- and abused -- to justify at least three regional wars plus terrorism and murder, not only against infidels but also toward...
Several students currently enrolled in Urdu said yesterday that they are concerned they may not be able to continue their study of the language. "If Asani leaves, the program goes," said Muneer I. Ahmad...
...With a record like that," says Ahmad, a Palestinian schoolteacher, "who would not feel betrayed by the P.L.O.'s support of Iraq? I would not deny that some Palestinians have looted and done despicable things in Kuwait, but most of us are against what Saddam did. That won't matter, of course. We will be punished for the stupidity of our chief of state -- and Arafat will continue his life as a celebrity. The Kuwaitis will say that they will look at each of our cases one by one" -- which indeed is what the Kuwaiti leadership says...
...face of entropy, Rabbit refuses to despair. He is never bored by the everyday details of his now-foreign culture. He remains fascinated by "The Cosby Show," "Roseanne" and by the television sportscaster (Ahmad Rashad) he calls the "black guy with froggy pop eyes...
Muneer I. Ahmad...