Word: islam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...least Michael Lerner and Cornel West are frank in their discussions. The politicians at the Kennedy School seemed eager to head off potentially divisive questions, including ones mentioning Nation of Islam head Louis Farrakhan. They focused on the shared history of Blacks and Jews as minorities who have experienced extreme prejudice. How far can these shared experiences be taken...
...author of such a claim disarms the audience by suggesting that he can distinguish between a terrorist who kills in the name of Islam and the larger Arab or Muslim community. And yet, at the same time, he confounds his own logic, planting the seed in his audience's imagination for lumping all the people with the funny Middle Eastern names into one great, big and undivided whole. Doubtless, some of his very best friends are Arabs...
None of this means, of course, that we should not tirelessly pursue all leads in the Oklahoma bombing, or that Islamic terrorist cells are not obvious candidates for responsibility. Organizations ranging from the Armed Islamic Group in Algeria to Hamas in Israel and the occupied territories, from Hizbollah in Lebanon to Sheikh Rahman and friends in New Jersey, have wreaked havoc on civilian targets in the name of Islam. States across the Middle East from Iran to the Sudan have proved themselves able and willing to sponsor this brand of terror throughout the West...
...There is an alternate view of Islam that needs to be projected," said Rifaad Hussain, minister of information for the Pakistani Embassy in Washington, D.C. "[Pakistan's gift] will help create bridges of understanding...
Hussain said he hopes the endowment will highlight Pakistan's non-Arab perspective on Islam, and further distinguish it as unique among South Asian countries...