Word: islam
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...Sikh, a member of a casteless religion that combines elements of Hinduism and Islam but scorns both the caste system of the Hindus and the historic expansionism of the Muslims in favor of monotheism, unembarrassed materialism and, where necessary, militarism. Though the 15 million Sikhs represent only about 2% of India's polyglot population, their influence is considerable. They account for 15% of the nation's army and an almost equally high proportion of its civil servants. Their efficient farming in Punjab, India's richest state, has helped make the country virtually self-sufficient in food production...
Even so, he has not proved to be a politically divisive figure in the presidential campaign, as many Democrats feared and Republicans hoped last summer. Jackson, however, has been careful to avoid provocative gestures. In June he disavowed Nation of Islam Leader Louis Farrakhan's various venomous remarks, and Jackson has not appeared with his former ardent supporter since last spring. Farrakhan still delivers his disturbing messages at meetings and on the radio, but most now sink into well-deserved obscurity. In addition, Jackson offered a moving apology in his Democratic Convention speech to those, including Jews, whom...
...Sikhs were originally a non-violent sees formed in about 1500 in an attempt to reconcile Hinduism and Islam. Currently, there is strife in India between all three groups...
...strife, and father of President Amin Gemayel and his brother Bashir, who was killed in 1982 before he could assume the presidency; of a heart attack; in Bikfaya, Lebanon. He helped found the right-wing Phalange Party in 1936 to protect the interests of Maronite Christians from submergence by Islam and a year later assumed its leadership; he fought French colonialists, Muslim rivals, Christian competitors, Syrians and Palestinians, and he survived several assassination attempts. In the 1960s he held various Cabinet posts, and for the past five months, he had served in the "last chance" government of national unity...
...Khomeini was not having any of it. He denounced the Red Sea mining, for which the shadowy Islamic Jihad organization had claimed responsibility, and he seized the opportunity to deny that his government had been involved in any recent airplane hijackings. Declared Khomeini: "How could we support something that is against world feelings, against Islam and against reason?" He added ominously that "serious measures should be taken in order to stop unsound statements on the national radio that defame Iran...