Word: arabism
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...country, "from crayons to college," as its slogan promises, is the Universal School, an Islamic institution teaching 638 students in pre-K through 12th grades in Bridgeview, Ill. The suburb, 16 miles southwest of Chicago's downtown Loop, lies in the heart of one of the U.S.'s largest Arab communities, where an estimated 25,000 Islamic residents pursue an uneasy assimilation into secular, suburban life. The school's goal is to give its students such a solid grounding in their religion and education that they will be able to go forth and succeed in mainstream American life without compromising...
...mealtime instead was dyed-green hair and requests to start dating, like the other kids in the public schools. The Islamic students faced discrimination as well, to which they responded with a different but just as American idea: forming gangs. "Tap boys," they were called, which stood for Tall Arab Posses. "The parents realized their children were drifting from what was holy and valuable to them," says Zarzour. "They were getting involved with everything from drugs to Halloween...
...Prompted by anti-Muslim demonstrators marching toward Bridgeview from a neighboring suburb, local police secured the area around the school and the mosque next door, manning the barricades for three days. "That day changed my life," says Zarzour, an immigrant from Syria. "Up until that time, Arab-American Muslims were the new kids on the block, going through the same adjustment as the Jews, the Irish and the Hispanics before us. A little discrimination was part of the process of integration. Now people don't think there is any such thing as a good Muslim...
...Having examined the remains of the suicide bomber who died in Wednesday's mosque attack, Major General Mohammed Muslim, commander of the Afghan troops in Kandahar, asserts: "I am 100% sure he was an Arab." If that is indeed the case, then it would point to al-Qaeda. While the Taliban have denied involvement, Muslim claims the authorities "have evidence that the Taliban were at least indirectly involved in this attack, as well as al-Qaeda." If so, the forecast for summer is beginning to look increasingly ominous...
...international opinion against Damascus and forcing the withdrawal of Syrian troops and some of the intelligence operatives who had stifled Lebanese life for three decades. The Bush Administration has used the scenes of Lebanese citizens demanding independence and free elections as vindication of its push for democracy in the Arab world. This week 3 million Lebanese voters begin going to the polls to elect a government that the U.S. hopes will be the first in 29 years free of Syrian control. And in the saga's final, Shakespearean twist, it is Hariri's son Saad, 35, a political novice...