Word: islam
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...head. TIME has obtained a copy of a document, dated March 16, 1993, that promises a "considerable financial reward" for Ganji's "assassination." Written on government letterhead and signed by state prosecutor Moussawi Tabrizi, it is addressed to Fallahian's intelligence ministry. The document accuses Ganji of "plotting against Islam" and quotes Khamenei as decreeing that "this man is an apostate and a corrupt man, who must be eliminated." The document adds that "the President of the Republic ((Rafsanjani)) has been informed of this obligatory decree." French intelligence experts, operating from a photocopy, are cautious about pronouncing on the document...
Last year, he assigned a book published by the Nation of Islam. That book maintains that Jews had a major part in the African slave trade...
Through July 3. "Pattern and Purpose: Decorative Arts of Islam." This exhibit presents a selection of the ceramics, metalwork, textiles, and other decorative media that have been created to beautify life in the Muslim world...
...Betty Shabazz, wife of the late civil rights leader Malcolm X, when asked if Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakham had anything to do with the death of her husband. She was quoted by the Associated Press in The Boston Globe of March...
...when that calm recitation ended, a different kind of oratory erupted. "Injustice! We are the victims!" shouted Mohammad Salameh, one of the four men on trial, pointing at the jury and pounding his fist on the table. "Allah-Akbar ((God is great))!" shouted the other defendants. "Al-Nasr lil-Islam ((Victory to Islam))!" And from the gallery came a retort New Yorkers in the court could understand. Cried the brother of defendant Nidal Ayyad: "You are all f---ing liars! My brother is innocent...