Word: islam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gordimer said she was angry about the recent stabbing of Mahfouz by a member of a fundamentalist Muslim group. Some Muslims have publicly called him blasphemous because the characters in his novels criticize Islam...
...Jordan made peace in the region "unstoppable." After presiding over the affair with Jordan's King Hussein and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin -- the podium, symbolically, was erected on a former mine field on the two countries' border -- Clinton made a peace offering to uneasy Jordanian Muslims. "We respect Islam," he announced, to loud applause from at least one side of the river Jordan. That appeared to set up his next line, a condemnation of Islamic terrorists "who cloak themselves in the rhetoric of religion and nationalism . . . You cannot succeed, you will not succeed, you must not succeed...
...policy is at once principled and self-interested. In demanding that the Islamists who reject violence be given a greater say in the political structure of Algeria, America lives up to its calling as international patron saint of democracy. The United States also makes clear that political Islam is not to be confused with its most radical manifestations. That is to say, Islamic fundamentalism ought not conjure up images of the World Trade Center bombing or the vicious anti-Americanism of the current government in Iran...
Offering strong opinions on the Black middle class, white corporate America and the Nation of Islam, four panelists discussed Black power last night before more than 120 students at Harvard Hall...
...response to an inquiry on the Nation of Islam, Hurt said: "What's attractive about the Nation of Islam is they not only lend a sense of urgency to the Black man, but they give the easy answer. The reason is always, "The Jews traded you as slaves...