Word: islam
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...stories have gained notice mainly as screeds against the ill treatment of women. What she shares with the author of The Satanic Verses, a novel that earned an Iranian death warrant against Rushdie 5 1/2 years ago, is the misfortune of becoming a lightning rod for the passions of Islamic zealots. Five days before her surprise appearance in court to face charges of making inflammatory statements, a crowd of 100,000 demonstrators gathered outside the Parliament building in Dhaka to bay for her blood. They branded her "an apostate appointed by imperial forces to vilify Islam." One particularly militant faction...
What fully enraged Nasrin's opponents, however, was an interview last May in an Indian newspaper, the Statesman of Calcutta, which quoted -- misquoted, she insists -- a comment by her to the effect that the Koran should be "revised thoroughly" to give equal rights to women. Islam's central article of faith is that the Koran is the literal word of God and thus above revision. Mosques began ringing with calls for her head. Dhaka experienced an astonishing escalation of violent protests, bombings and clashes between Islamic militants and secularists. Nasrin's succes de scandale afforded conservative mullahs and their followers...
UZBEKISTAN'S PRESIDENT ISLAM KARIMOV...
Unforgettable villains. Um, well, they're not really unforgettable. Fanatic, but far from unforgettable. Which brings up another point, that of the movie's supposed anti-Arab bias. On the one hand, Cameron is not as sensitive as he could be with matters of Islam and Arabic culture. The terrorists are fairly one-dimensional. On the other hand, they don't seem that far removed in spirit from the group that bombed the World Trade Center. They're terrorists. It's not an easy call, but I don't think the movie comes across as specifically anti-Islamic...
Emerging from three days of closed-door meetings organized by the N.A.A.C.P. in Baltimore, African-American leaders agreed to reconvene in August to focus on economic development, youth and community empowerment, and moral and spiritual renewal. The N.A.A.C.P. drew attention and criticism for inviting controversial Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan...