Word: islam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...returned in April after a brief, rocky stay with his mother in San Antonio, Texas. Friends and neighbors say Malcolm, 12, wanted to live again with his mother Qubilah, who had been briefly in the news in 1995 when she faced charges for plotting to kill Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan...
...cultures and lifestyles; his father is quick to emphasize that the family has no problem with those who do pierce their ears or whose culture demands they do so. Ashong has the same tendency. When he discusses his deeply held Christian beliefs, he immediately jumps to his respect for Islam. He rarely speaks categorically, except about himself...
...something was happening that Iran had never seen before. It was exemplified last week in Fadiyian Islam, one of south Tehran's poorest neighborhoods and a former bedrock of support for Khomeini. Thousands of ecstatic Iranians overflowed into the dusty streets shouting, "Khatami! Khatami! You're the hope!" as they rushed toward a 54-year-old black-turbaned cleric, nearly crushing him as he mounted a podium inside a mosque. In the election campaign that began four weeks ago, Mohammed Khatami was a sensation. Surveys showed his support climbing from 13.9% to 20.2% to 52% on election eve. On Saturday...
...allegedly set the fire because he was angry that he had to live with his grandmother; he had been sent to the co-op apartment in Westchester County three weeks ago to get him away from a tough crowd he was associating with in his neighborhood. Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan expressed his sympathies for Betty Shabazz, with whom he had had a 32-year rift over the assassination of her husband Malcolm X. Mrs. Shabazz, an administrator at Medgar Evers College, believed Farrakhan was partly responsible for the fatal shooting of her husband...
...very much of a kind of community spirit which is involved in Islam and this was of course all formulated back in the seventh century, when trade was very simple and not at all well developed," said Hayes. "...There were abuses taking place which the prophet [Mohammed], himself a trader, observed and felt he could remedy...