Word: islamic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Muharram holiday is particularly significant to opponents of the Shah; it symbolizes the Shi'ites' struggle against an evil, corrupt leadership in the earliest years of Islam. The mourning, which culminates on Dec. 11, commemorates the death of the 7th century Imam Husain, a grandson of Muhammad who was beheaded by Sunni Muslims from Damascus intent on maintaining their rule over dissident Persians. Muharram is traditionally observed with huge processions through the streets, at which the faithful whip themselves with chains or draw blood with knives and swords in anguished enactments of Husain's suffering...
...militant who identified himself only as Hassan said "The shah is the enemy of the people and of Islam. We will kill all who support...
King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee were listed with the Revolutionary Action Movement, the Deacons for Defense and Justice and the Nation of Islam as movements to be continuously scrutinized and harassed in this effort...
Those irreconcilable views on the destiny of the Holy City point to the difficulties that lie ahead in finding a solution to the most difficult of all Middle East problems. To the 100,000 Arabs of East Jerusalem?indeed, to Arabs everywhere?Jerusalem is the third-ranking of Islam's holy places (after Mecca and Medina) and the obvious capital of any Palestinian entity set up on the West Bank. Says Anwar Khatib, former governor of East Jerusalem under Jordanian rule: "Without safeguarding Arab sovereignty over East Jerusalem, all other proposals will not stand...
There is an ever present belief in the Western world that Islam is contrary to modernization and progress. The current development and modernization in many oil-rich Islamic nations prove that progress and Islam can go together. If you call legalization of gambling, striptease, pornography and homosexual rights social reforms and modernization, I would say no to such progress...