Word: islam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first time in Cambridge history, that together we will be able to meet and practice Islam as it should be," said Said, the vice president of the Islamic Society of Boston. "The center brings everyone together...
Malcolm X's daughter Qubilah Shabazz pleaded not guilty to charges that she plotted to have Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan killed. Meanwhile, Farrakhan publicly echoed the claim of Shabazz's lawyers that the case was a setup by the government...
...also the man whose accusations led to the arrest of Qubilah Shabazz, a daughter of Malcolm X, two weeks ago. In an increasingly controversial case, Fitzpatrick's credibility has become central to the government's charge that she tried to hire a hit man to kill Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan...
Capping a seven-month FBI investigation, federal prosecutors in Minnesota indicted Qubilah Shabazz, one of Malcolm X's daughters, charging her with attempting to hire a hit man to kill Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. Although prosecutors would not publicly speculate on a motive, Shabazz's family is known to suspect Farrakhan of having been involved in Malcolm X's assassination 30 years ago when the two men were rivals. Shabazz's lawyer said his client had been lured and set up by the would-be hit man, whom he described as a childhood friend of Shabazz...
...BEEN ALMOST SIX YEARS SINCE Iran's Ayatullah Khomeini put a price on the head of Salman Rushdie for allegedly blaspheming Islam in his novel The Satanic Verses. Since then the world has grown ever more complacent about Rushdie's predicament even as he has done his share of -- entirely justified -- complaining and hectoring; the author now resembles, in some minds, Coleridge's Ancient Mariner, a man doomed by an unwitting offense to go on talking about his fate to any listener he can corner...