Word: islamicization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Are you afraid of the Judgment Day?" Sister Mira Anne Nattoli, clad in traditional Muslim robes, asks her fifth- and sixth-grade English class. Today's text is "The Twins and the Missing Math Paper," but the lesson is as much religion as English. "Whoever cheats," a young man reads...
CONFLICT Seven-year civil war between Islamic militants and secularist military government
Well, Hitler appeared to be good for some Germans too. But the dimmest bulb in Hollywood could hardly misunderstand what the Taliban is about. Disagreement comes only from oil-hungry corporations and relief groups fearful they'll be kicked out for criticizing the regime. There are 130 human-rights and...
"I think especially after Bosnia earlier in this decade we in the U.S. and in the rest of the world have become accustomed to seeing images like the ones were seeing from Kosovo right now. And in as sense we have become somewhat inured to those images so they no...
The festival is different from traditional Islamic festivals, according to participants, because it is based on Persian culture, rather than the religion itself. The ancestors of present-day Iranian Muslims, Persians were originally Zoroastrians.