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Rahman: In general, everyone feels that it is Islam which has been put on trial. And that the U.S. wants to use this case to put Islam down...
Rahman: First of all, I was charged with a radical interpretation of Islam. When I asked to bring Islamic experts to the trial, our request was denied. The prosecutor, who knows nothing about Islam, became the source of Islamic interpretation and Islamic ideas...
...October 16, one million black men are scheduled to march on the capitol in an effort organized by Minister of the Nation of Islam Louis Farrakhan to unite the nation's black community...
...rare interview published in this week's issue of TIME, the blind Egyptian cleric told Dowell that "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...
...prepares the taped messages that Commando Solo airs, have considered morphing the image of a foreign leader and putting words in his mouth to get him in trouble--for instance, Saddam Hussein appearing on Iraqi TV before the Gulf War, sipping whiskey and carving a ham, both forbidden in Islam. (In Haiti the CIA had even thought of synthesizing the voice of the late and much feared dictator Francois "Papa Doc" Duvalier to urge superstitious soldiers to surrender.) For now, ethics and strategy argue against such tactics. Says Colonel Jeffrey Jones, former commander of the psy-ops group: "The truth...