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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...
...form is corrupt and that the true faith was revealed only to Muhammad. Those revelations are contained in the Koran, the Arabic word for recitation. Slightly shorter than the New Testament, the Koran has little narrative. There are evocations of divine grandeur in rhymed prose, florid descriptions of the harsh fate that awaits those who knowingly ignore God's will, and detailed instructions on specific ways that man must submit to his maker...
...Friday, Sadat and Begin had made their triumphant visits to Congress and gone home to face the harsh realities of the treaty. Carter was left to struggle with inflation, energy and the Pennsylvania nuclear accident. He was tired but deeply satisfied, and for a few minutes he paused in the Oval Office to think back over what had happened and to look ahead...
...sake of our future, the future of our children, we shall fight. We don't want to be like the red Indians, and we will not be. Even in our exodus, in the harsh and tough life of our diaspora, after we had been kicked out of our homeland, we the Palestinian people have the highest percentage of educated people in this area. So we will not be red Indians...
After months of arduous negotiations, exacerbated by harsh charges and counter-charges, negotiators for both sides finally reached agreement on a contract Saturday. The faculty approved the contract by a 252-17 vote Monday, and the trustees were expected to follow suit the next...