Word: ayatollahs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...country, we don't sentence our artists to death, like the Ayatollah, or send them off to slave labor camps, like Stalin," wrote Professor of English Robert S. Brustein in the October issue...
Observers say her visit to the U.S. this week--after only six months as prime minister--presents an opportunity for the Muslim leader to present a less hostile image of Islam. Many say that with the recent death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the West can look forward to an era of good relations with Muslim leaders like Bhutto...
LESS than four months ago, students, writers and politicians stood up to terrorist tactics of censorship when the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini condemned Salman Rushdie's book The Satanic Verses. Our nation criticized publishers who bowed to the pressure to keep the book off their shelves...
Yoshino said that Advocate member Adam M. Lifshey '91 suggested the idea of the banned books reading soon after the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini banned Rushdie's book in February and set a price on the author's head...
NEVER do we read a headline like "PLO Pushes Israelis to Hatred," although the Palestinian Liberation Organization is responsible for more violence in Israel than the Israeli army. Never do we read a headline like "Ayatollah Khomeini Instills Muslim World with Hatred," even in a time of a highly publicized death threat. Death threats are something the state of Israel has lived with since its inception; the one political issue that has not divided the Arab nations until recently is the mandate to destroy Israel...