Word: islam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Emerson's selection, however, angered students and faculty who believe his work supports and perpetuates stereotypes about Arabs and the religion of Islam...
...Learn about Islam at the Islamic Society of Boston and check out Cambridge's only mosque (204 Prospect St., next to Pennypacker; 876-3546; Services and weekly discussion groups Friday 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.). Each discussion group features a sermon, given by someone in the community, emphasizing the rules of Islam and stories of the prophet Muhammad. The Islamic society also organizes social gatherings for its members...
Indonesia controls the Strait of Malacca. It is the great southern bulwark against the rising Chinese challenge. It has the largest population in the Muslim world and practices a tolerant Islam that we hope will influence its more militant co-religionists...
...Buchanan "can play a role as a unifier, bring everybody together." Come again? Fulani herself ran for president in 1988 and 1992 on the New Alliance ticket, but this year has thrown in her lot with the Reform party in New York. She is a supporter of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan and has been criticized for a statement she made saying that some blacks seem willing to "pander to Jews" (Fulani is black). Buchanan, meanwhile, is a virulent protectionist and anti-immigrationist (and ex-Nixon speechwriter) who never met a panderer he didn't like (though...
...self-destructive at best. Smith describes, for instance, Diana's relationship with cardiac surgeon Hasnat Khan, who broke up with her just weeks before she supposedly fell in love with Dodi al Fayed. Desperate to hang on to Khan, Smith reports, Diana was willing to convert to Islam, and even traveled to Pakistan to meet his extended family--without mentioning the trip to Khan...