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...followers were sentenced to lengthy jail terms in a Manhattan courtroom today following their October convictions for conspiring to blow up several New York landmarks, including the United Nations and the Lincoln and Holland tunnels. "This case is nothing but an extension of the American war against Islam," Abdel-Rahman told U.S. District Judge Michael Mukasey through an interpreter. The 57-year-old Egyptian faces a mandatory life sentence for a separate conviction for plotting to kill Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak. TIME's William Dowell reports: "Because the case was tried here, it implicates the U.S. in what...
...arare interview last September with TIME's Dowell, the blind Egyptian cleric said "everyone feels that it is Islam which has been put on trial. The U.S. wants to use this case to put Islam down." Rahman also said that the West has misinterpreted the Islamic term jihad as terrorism. "Self-defense is legal in all religions. People who are defending their lands are called terrorists. Of course, this interpretation is useful to the West. It legitimizes attacks against any country in the Third World...
...rhetorical arson. He ignited a battle with prosecutor Christopher Darden over the word "nigger." He dragged the ghost of Malcolm X into the courtroom by dubbing Fuhrman and detective Philip Vannatter "twin devils." By the end of the trial he had taken to showing up flanked by Nation of Islam bodyguards. And, to the horror even of some members of the defense team, he made the odious and hyperbolic comparison of Fuhrman and Adolf Hitler...
Greenawalt cited the Nation of Islam's exclusion of whites as an example. And he emphasized that the reasons for that exclusion are not "flimsy...
Said Sadi, 48, a psychiatrist from the mountainous Kabylie region, came in third, with 10% of the vote. Sadi has built his political career on opposition to the government and abhorrence of political Islam. His deep hatred for the F.I.S.' charismatic No. 2, Ali Belhadj, goes back to the 1980s when the men were imprisoned together. Legend has it that Belhadj promised to cut Sadi's throat if the Islamists ever came to power. "Fundamentalism is like death," Sadi told supporters. "You try it only once." At Sadi's instigation, the government has allowed Algerian peasants to establish village "self...