Word: islam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Look what happened to Cat Stevens: during his tortuous pursuit of spiritual fulfillment, he sang some of the most evocative songs ever put to vinyl--but, the minute he found peace in the religion of Islam, he put down his guitar forever. Yusuf Islam (Cat's new name) may be happy now, but what about...
...undersigned faculty members and research fellows affiliated with the Center for Middle Eastern Studies would like to make clear our views on the CIA funding of the "Islam and Muslim Politics" conference held at Harvard, as well as on broader issues of Center funding...
...quoted in this morning's New York Times [October 14] as saying that some scholars have withdrawn from the Islam and Politics conference for "personal reasons." I hope that I made clear to you in our conversations on Saturday that my own reasons were matters of principle. If I expressed myself more in sorrow than in anger, it was because of my long standing respect for you as a scholar and a person. Although you will not remember it. I first met you 23 years ago at a meeting to protest another operation of the Central Intelligence Agency, the invasion...
...words were devoured the way seals snap at fish. You could see the words settle in the crowd's bellies; 25,000 satisfied customers packing New York City's Madison Square Garden last Monday night to hear Minister Louis Farrakhan, head of the Nation of Islam, bring his dual message of self-help and hate. The message of hate predominated. How the crowd hungered for that meal. At the words of defiance they stood and roared. At the in-jokes they laughed joyfully. At the derisive words they smiled and sneered. The converted attended the preacher...
...night, or the gang of preliminary speakers railing against the Jewish domination of Hollywood and the international Jewish conspiracy. It wasn't the savage courtesies of the people who checked the audience for weapons; all 25,000 were frisked individually. It wasn't the uniforms of the Fruit of Islam guards, men in deep blue caps and suits, looking like parodies of club-car porters, or the female guards surrounding Farrakhan as he spoke, wearing white kepis and robes that looked like doormen's coats. Nothing that occurred on stage was more or less troubling than watching a drunk...