Word: islamicization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Professor of the History of Religion and Islamic Studies William A. Graham echoed Mendelsohn, saying his reaction to the Wye agreement was "largely disappointment."
Later that week, a member of Hamas, the largest Palestinian Islamic group, nearly blew up a bus filled with the school-bound children of Israeli settlers in the Gaza Strip. (An Israeli army jeep escorting the children cut him off, absorbing the blow of his 170-lb. car bomb. The...
An action film taut with suspense, The Siege has also raised the ire of Arab-American groups fuming at yet another portrayal of Arabs as crazed religious zealots and bombers. The Council on American-Islamic Relations has demanded that the religious symbols be removed from the film, fearing another rise...
The most crucial asset for terrorists is instead their human resources--a large pool of alienated, relatively poor, predominantly male youths who feel their nation or religion is being unjustly targeted by outside forces, particularly American. What better way to enlarge this human resource pool than an apparently (to populations...
"There has been so much conversation about the millennium and it seems an obvious introduction to be made of gender at the millennium," added Afsaneh Najmabadi, a professor of women's studies at Barnard College, who will address feminism in Islamic movements at the final panel. "Yet it is a...