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Word: islamicization (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although about 20 percent of Capetonians are Muslim, Islamic fundamentalism has traditionally been limited to a handful of (mostly) student activists. (The city's Muslim clergy, for example, showed no hesitation in condemning the Planet Hollywood bombing.) Fundamentalists were instrumental in creating People Against Gangs and Drugs (PAGAD), a vigilante...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cape Town Bombers Have No Place to Hide | 8/26/1998 | See Source »

Expect early arrests in this one, and don't be too surprised if the attack even turns out to have some connection with the city's gang-war undercurrents: Despite cloaking itself in the mantle of Islamic fundamentalism, PAGAD has been accused of being influenced by rival drug dealers threatened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cape Town Bombers Have No Place to Hide | 8/26/1998 | See Source »

It's a long way from Afghanistan to Detroit, Jersey City and Brooklyn. But that's the route a federal grand jury says Osama bin Laden's money took when the exiled Saudi millionaire started funding Islamic extremists in the United States. According to counterterrorism officials, the New York jurors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bin Laden: See You in Court? | 8/25/1998 | See Source »

A handful of Islamic fundamentalists have been involved in a two-year vigilante war against the city's drug dealers, and have used pipe bombs to attack suspected gang members on a number of occasions. If such disparate elements are now turning their attention to attacking targets linked (however spuriously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jihad at Planet Hollywood | 8/25/1998 | See Source »

The U.N. deliberations comes amid signs that the missile strikes have increased hostility toward the U.S. in the Islamic world: "Muslims from Morocco to Indonesia who'd never even heard of Osama bin Laden before are now being told in mosques around the world that he's a true Islamic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sudan: Where's the Chemistry? | 8/24/1998 | See Source »

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