Word: islam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rhetorical arson. He ignited a battle with prosecutor Christopher Darden over the word "nigger." He dragged the ghost of Malcolm X into the courtroom by dubbing Fuhrman and detective Philip Vannatter "twin devils." By the end of the trial he had taken to showing up flanked by Nation of Islam bodyguards. And, to the horror even of some members of the defense team, he made the odious and hyperbolic comparison of Fuhrman and Adolf Hitler...
Greenawalt cited the Nation of Islam's exclusion of whites as an example. And he emphasized that the reasons for that exclusion are not "flimsy...
Said Sadi, 48, a psychiatrist from the mountainous Kabylie region, came in third, with 10% of the vote. Sadi has built his political career on opposition to the government and abhorrence of political Islam. His deep hatred for the F.I.S.' charismatic No. 2, Ali Belhadj, goes back to the 1980s when the men were imprisoned together. Legend has it that Belhadj promised to cut Sadi's throat if the Islamists ever came to power. "Fundamentalism is like death," Sadi told supporters. "You try it only once." At Sadi's instigation, the government has allowed Algerian peasants to establish village "self...
...HAVE NEVER HEARD A NOISE AS LOUD AS the silence of the many black men who came together without violence or hate. Even the suggestion that African Americans who embrace Minister Farrakhan's message must join the Nation of Islam or adopt anti-Semitism could not drown out the beauty of hundreds of thousands of black men united in peace, love and respect. All America should be proud. TONYA DELORES BARNES Stone Mountain, Georgia...
...screening of Sh'chur at the Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue in Boston on Thursday, November 9. Sh'chur will be preceded by "Les Affinites Recouvrees," directed by Cynthia Beth Rubip. (USA, 1994, 3 min.) This mini-film probes the Moraccon Jewish culture and the influences of Islam on the development and strength of this culture. The artist is an Ashkenasi Jew, and this piece is the culmination of her research on a culture of "others" which is oftentimes neglected. Shmuel Hasfari, the director of Sh'chur and Cynthia Beth Rubin will both attend the screening...