Word: islam
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...most objections to the film come fromMuslims who feel that The Siege reinforcesthe public's association between Islamic practicesand terrorist activity. "The movie tried to getcloser to the substance of Islam, but in the end,"Siddiqui says, "it was quite flawed, unbalanced."Only terrorists speak of religious matters, andtwo imprisoned characters recite the seminalprayer from the Qur'an (the Muslim scripture)."The practicing Muslims were terrorists, anddespite the portrayal of families praying [duringmontage sequences of community life], the familiesweren't developed," he explains. "There was enoughsuspicion raised in the movie to make even thesefamilies suspect; there's nothing...
...million Amount an Iranian foundation offered for killing Salman Rushdie for blaspheming Islam...
...wave of death sentences, arrests and harassment bear all the marks of a centrally orchestrated campaign intended to further the declared policy of the Iranian Government to strangle the Baha'i community economically, intellectually and spiritually, in a coercive attempt to force its members' conversion to Islam. This policy became widely known in 1993 when it was accidentally revealed that the Iranian Supreme Revolutionary Council had earlier adopted a position on "The Baha'i Question" in a secret document dated Feb. 25, 1991, and signed by Ayatollah Khamenei. The secret document declared that Baha'is must be expelled from universities...
...title your article "The Sword of Islam," and why use the metaphor of Pakistani rulers "waving the scimitar of Islam" [WORLD, Sept. 28], unless the intent is to portray all forms of Muslim political activism as stridently militant? It is wrong to perpetuate such crude stereotypes. Pakistan is a country in which a politically and religiously diverse populace is struggling for its survival in the face of many serious challenges. You could have given your readers probing insights into how the country is faring on all these fronts and how the different political appeals to so-called Islam are being...
Enter Iran. Competing for the "most holy Islamic nation prize," Iran has criticized the Taliban's harsh policies, accusing them of giving Islam a bad name. This hurt the Taliban's feelings, and in response they killed eight Iranian diplomats. Not to be outdone, Iran massed 270,000 troops on the Afghan border and last Thursday commenced three hours of fighting...