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...garage around the corner from where Achrak was killed. Civil-rights activist or self-interested agitator? Abou Jahjah may be a little bit of both. But Belgians shouldn't expect him to quiet down anytime soon - he's running for Parliament in June. - By JOHN MILLER/Antwerp THE THINKER Shaker Assem, 38, Germany The six policemen who woke shaker Assem and his family early on the morning of Nov. 12 were polite and respectful. "Maybe they knocked a little too loudly on the door, but otherwise they were very professional," he says. The surprise visit to Assem's Duisberg flat...
...Assem admits that Hizb ut-Tahrir's goals are incompatible with European political institutions, but insists the organization has no intention of making trouble. "People who say there is a conflict between Shari'a and Christianity don't understand Shari'a," he says. "But people who say there is a conflict between Shari'a and Western democracy are right." The problem in Assem's view is that "all men are not created equal, and democracy eventually lets the fortunate over-run the less fortunate." So Hizb ut-Tahrir members don't vote or run for office in secular elections...
...Committee chairmen will assem?? 2 Dunster Street tonight for a lot?? determine representation of the ?? on the different committees. Five ?? will have one member each on the ??ittee on Students and the Commun?? ?ree houses will have a representation the Committee on Undergraduate ??tion; two will have a representative ?? permanent Committee of Rights ??esponsibilities. After the first year, committee posts will rotate among ?ouses...
Euphonious Combination. As if to emphasize that the figurehead Vice President would be no more than a figurehead President, the National Assem bly did not even permit Thang to choose his second-in-command. Ignoring the constitution, which authorizes a President to name his Vice President, the Assembly made the decision for him, electing Nguyen Luong Bang, about 65, a member of the party Central Committee and North Viet Nam's Ambassador to Moscow from 1952 to 1957. Whatever other assets the new Vice President brings to his job, his election gives North Viet Nam the world...
...vanishing Jew' is a myth," agreed Rabbi Wolfe Kelman, executive vice president of the Rabbinical Assem bly. Speaking at the Catskills' Concord Hotel to the annual convention of Conservative rabbis, Kelman argued that while in prewar Europe Jewish partners in a mixed marriage customarily abandoned their faith, the opposite is true in the U.S. now. Today, he declared, "a large number of non-Jewish part ners are willing and eager to convert to Judaism...