Word: islam
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Among the first Western visitors were 33 Italians who paid $2,000 apiece in December for a nine-day tour of Tehran and major archaeological sites. Elda Chiaraviglio, a Turin travel agent who helped organize the group, called the visit "a leap backward into medieval Islam, but fascinating." While many Iranians remain hostile to the U.S., she noted, the American dollar was the only foreign currency that Iranian black marketeers would accept...
...immediately after the civil rights leader was slain should give one pause. That he has never honestly explained or apologized for his anti-Jewish quip about New York City as "Hymietown," or that he failed to unequivocally denounce or distance himself from the vicious preachings of that Fruit of Islam, Louis Farrakhan, should give one a sense of extreme anxiety. As Henry Adams noted in his autobiography, The Education of Henry Adams, it used to be in this country that we held it as a matter of principle to elect those whom we considered our moral and intellectual best...