Word: islamicism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
The protests tap into a long Iranian tradition. The seeds of the 1905-11 Constitutional Revolution - which produced Iran's first parliament and constitution - were planted in the Tobacco Protest of the 19th century, when even women in the royal harem stopped smoking their water pipes to protest an exclusive...
"If he is Al-Qaeda, he should be arrested. He's a terrorist." - Abdul Razzak Aziz of the Islamic Association of Long Island (Newsday, July 23, 2009)
• He started attending Islamic services three or four years ago and eventually converted. He joined the the Islamic Association of Long Island, a mosque where most attendees are from Pakistan. While there, he went by the name Ibrahim.
"[He was] very quiet, very smiley." - Nayyar Imam of the Islamic Association of Long Island, where Vinas worshiped (New York Times, July 23, 2009)
The Uighurs are a Turkic speaking, largely Islamic minority group concentrated in China's northwestern Xinjiang region. On July 5 several hundred Uighurs went on a rampage in Xinjiang's capital of Urumqi. The violence left 197 people dead, most of them members of China's majority Han ethnic group...