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...when the plane carrying Yusuf Islam, better known as the rock star Cat Stevens, was diverted to Bangor, Maine, on its way to Washington from London in September 2004 because his name turned up on a watch list of people with suspected ties to terrorists. Just last week, Zaki Badawi, an internationally renowned British Muslim scholar and the moderate head of London's Muslim College, was denied entry to the U.S. after his plane landed in New York. Back at home, British Muslims have their grievances, and the list just got longer. In a development that was, perhaps, sadly inevitable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Both Sorrow and Anger | 7/17/2005 | See Source »

...party vice presidents; from membership in the ruling United Malays National Organization (UMNO) party; in Kuala Lumpur. Isa was suspended for six years after an internal party investigation found that he bought votes during UMNO elections last year. The most senior casualty so far in Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's anti-corruption campaign, Isa has 14 days to appeal the suspension. If it is upheld, he will be forced to resign from his ministership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones | 6/25/2005 | See Source »

...role do Reform and Conservative rabbis play at a Maimonides memorial? They have jettisoned most if not all of his 13 Articles of Faith. Deny even one, says Maimonides, and you deny Judaism. Are they the ones to wish him a happy birthday? Then there is Kuwaiti Professor Abderrahmane Badawi, who embraces Maimonides as an Arab philosopher. But Maimonides, while not branding Islam as idolatry, was clear in rejecting classical Arab fatalism in favor of Judaism's doctrine of free choice. It was also nice of the U.S.S.R. to send Scholar Vitali Naumkin to Paris, while Soviet Jews who study...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 27, 1986 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...country is not the only champion of free trade in this world. A practice that fundamentally improves people’s well being can seldom stay rare. The expansion of the E.U. bloc is well covered in the media, but the changes afoot in Asia are more remarkable. Abdullah Badawi, Malaysia’s prime minister, suggested that a summit of members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) plus Japan, South Korea and China could form the basis of an East Asian Community, modelled on ASEAN’s own plans for free trade and further integration. Prime...

Author: By Alex B. Turnbull, | Title: If You Can't Play Nice... | 12/13/2004 | See Source »

...Mahathir Mohamad in June 2003. The deal had never been made public. But almost as soon as the revelation was out, Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi, Mahathir's successor, smacked it down, saying that no license had been or would be issued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bets Off | 10/25/2004 | See Source »

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