Word: islam
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...hope Golding sees that, taking other factors into account, coming to either of these conclusions would be utterly ridiculous. Religious affiliation of any kind is a very dubious ground on which to base such a somber decision as to whom one wants to entrust his or her government. RUNA ISLAM ’00 East Palo Alto, Calif. November...
...Dates, No Dancing" [Oct. 16] was about Punjab University in Lahore, Pakistan, where socializing between men and women is taboo. It is a prudish place, tightly controlled by a student group, Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba (I.J.T.), whose goal is "training the young generation according to Islam so they can play a role in Pakistan's social and political life." But what about the country's economic life? The vice chancellor of the university--as at most other Pakistani universities--is a retired general lacking an academic background. There was a time when Arab Muslim countries led the way in advancing...
...forces in history?There is also considerable disagreement over whether religion really is the driving force behind the conflicts that are commonly attributed to it. Many people in Ireland insist that the Ulster conflict is about British rule versus Irish unification, not about Protestantism versus Catholicism. And among the Islam-aligned forces with which our country is currently entangled, Saddam Hussein’s Baathism is more secular and nationalist than it is religious. Whether or not religion is a major force is a question best left to our colleagues in history, government, and area studies, in the context...
Chechnya is a federal territory subject to the Russian Federation. Rich in natural resources, the area is a historical hotspot that once featured power struggles between Cossacks, Ottoman Turks, and bizarrely, Buddhist Kalmyks. Chechens eventually converted to Islam and ever since have vehemently resisted Russian control. Invariably uprising once a generation, they even collaborated with Nazi invaders in the ’40s. Comrade Stalin was so enraged about this betrayal that he called for genocidal mass deportations—and actually scattered millions of Chechens around the Soviet Union—yet the Chechen nation survived the dictator...
...many conversations--that she is a poor communicator. By that they mean several things. Some say she makes top-down decisions. Others say she lacks vision for a job that isn't just a university presidency but almost a secretary-generalship of the deaf world. "It's like in Islam, people go to their Mecca for a holy religious cleansing," Lawrence Fleischer, dean of deaf studies at California State University, Northridge, says through an interpreter. "In our world, we see Gallaudet as the Mecca...