Word: council
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Islam is frequently stereotyped as unmitigatedly harsh in its code of law, intolerant of other religions, repressive toward women and incompatible with progress. Salem Azzam, Saudi secretary-general of the Islamic Council of Europe, feels that the present resurgence is considered "retrograde and reactionary" because Westerners confuse what is happening in Islam with a revival of Christian fundamentalism. "Not only is this a baseless and arrogant assumption," says Azzam, but it is tantamount to "a return to colonialism?indirect but of a more profound type." Defenders of the faith further argue that Islam is not monolithic, that it is compatible...
...book called Orientalism (Pantheon; $15), Edward Said, 43, Parr Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, argues that the West has tended to define Islam in terms of the alien categories imposed on it by Orientalist scholars. Professor Said is a member of the Palestine National Council, a broadly based, informal parliament of the Palestine Liberation Organization. He summarized the thesis of Orientalism in this article for TIME...
...efforts by the Administration to force restraint. Last week bargaining resumed briefly only to be broken off again. When the talks first collapsed, April 1, the drivers were demanding an increase of 32% over three years. Though that would be well above the compounded guideline level of 22.5%, the Council on Wage and Price Stability (COWPS) seemed ready to exclude some benefit gains and pronounce an even 30% settlement to be within the standards...
Rhodesian Bishop Abel Muzorewa, whose Black United African National Council is expected to win the upcoming elections, defended the raids...
...freshman council yesterday can-called an open meeting it had scheduled to discuss the assignment process with Dingman. It was called off because of lack of interest, Dingman said...