Word: islam
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...contemporary writer has done more to inform Western perceptions of Islam than Bernard Lewis. His seminal 1950 work, The Arabs in History, still holds up as one of the definitive accounts of the Arab world. Some of his more recent books have examined the rising anti-Western mood in the Islamic world. Coming after 9/11, What Went Wrong? The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East and The Crisis of Islam Holy War and Unholy Terror seek to explain the roots of extremism. His take on these subjects has often been controversial; some scholars accuse him of being...
TIME: Tell me about the timing of your new book. Why now, and how do you feel it adds to the general discussion on Islam...
...fall over time, as they did in much of the world in the 20th century. They well might. But international officials say governments often lack the political will--as well as the money--to tackle the issue, perhaps because there are too few women politicians to push it. Monir Islam, director of the maternal-health program of the World Health Organization in Geneva, calls governments' low level of investment in reducing deaths in childbirth a "sinful neglect...
...Kennedy-McCain immigration bill of attempting to “flood the country with foreign nationals.” Representative Peter King, told an interviewer that “there are too many mosques in this country,” alleging that most American Muslims support radical Islam. Unfortunately, a large percentage of Americans are as unfriendly towards immigrants as O’Reilly and King. In a recent NBC News poll, 52 percent of those surveyed believed that immigration is detrimental to America, while only 39 percent found immigration to be beneficial. The same poll found that a slight...
...Pope's centerpiece speech in France is expected to come at the College des Bernardins in front of academics, cultural leaders, representatives of Islam, and European Union and United Nations officials. Some in the Vatican press corps have billed it Regensburg II, though few expect it will trigger any anger among Muslims...