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...farmer - who raised him. Kwame means Saturday, the day he was born; Linus is his Christian, or colonial name. At school, in the lush hills of the Volta region - an area that had originally been colonized by the Germans, but later came under British rule - the young Kwame sang God Save the King and saluted the British flag. "That's the training for discipline," remembers Kwame, now 72. Along with discipline, the British brought some measure of modernity to Ghana - schools, hospitals - but from a young age Kwame sensed that "they would not open up development how we wanted...
...God knows. Gentlemen wore them. It was a sign of a rebel to take it off. My character takes his off quite...
ISLAM'S SCHISM BEGAN IN A.D. 632, immediately after the Prophet Muhammad died without naming a successor as leader of the new Muslim flock. Some of his followers believed the role of Caliph, or viceroy of God, should be passed down Muhammad's bloodline, starting with his cousin and son-in-law, Ali ibn Abi Talib. But the majority backed the Prophet's friend Abu Bakr, who duly became Caliph. Ali would eventually become the fourth Caliph before being murdered in A.D. 661 by a heretic near Kufa, now in Iraq. The succession was once again disputed, and this time...
...adrenalin rush." He also says Hicks would pose a threat if released. "He once told me in Afghanistan that if he were to go into a building of Jews with an automatic weapon or as a suicide bomber he would have to say something like 'there is no god but Allah' ect [sic] just so he could see the look of fear on their faces, before he takes them out," writes Abbasi...
...administration such as Karl Rove and the commander-in-chief, himself. “George Bush is a small man,” Mailer said. INVITATION TO CONTROVERSY The theology that appears in “The Castle in the Forest” raised questions on the nature of God from the audience, and Mailer did not flinch from asserting his beliefs. “God is a creator who could succeed or fail,” Mailer said. “We are God’s vision.” However, he added that we posses full agency...