Word: hanafi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Others, looking for parallels to the Rushdie case both inside and outside Islam, referred to Muslim resentment of the medieval Christian mystery plays, with their satanic portrayals of the Prophet as "Mahound," the name Rushdie gives his crypto-Prophet. In 1977 a fanatical band of Hanafi Muslims shot their way into three buildings in Washington, took more than 100 hostages and, among other things, tried to halt the showing of a $17 million movie epic called Muhammad, Messenger of God at theaters in New York City and Los Angeles. Though the tone of the movie was reverential, the producers...
...court, Abdul-Jabbar and his wife Habiba are getting divorced after seven years of separation. While he still has some connections with the Hanafi Muslims in Washington, D.C., he has rid himself of the house where seven of them were murdered in 1973. Once among the most reclusive of superstars, Abdul-Jabbar is now seen about the town more often, skating at a roller disco or dining with friends...