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Chuck D., a member of the controversial rap group Public Enemy, and Minister Conrad Muhammad, the national student representative of the Nation of Islam, will speak at Sanders Theatre tonight...
...ancient Arabia, the most fabled land was the city of Ubar. As legend had it, one Shaddad ibn Ad created a jewel-encrusted oasis town in the southern deserts to stand as an "imitation of Paradise." Islam's holy Koran, which called the site Iram, evoked the grandeur of "lofty pillars, the like of which were not produced in ((all)) the land." This was also Islam's Sodom, however, a place that God destroyed because of its wickedness. Ever since, warns an Arabian saying, "anybody who finds Ubar will go crazy." And according to an Arabian Nights tale, "Allah blotted...
Scuffles break out between Nation of Islam members imported from Dorchester and Jewish militants imported from Brookline. Queer Nation members block the doors to Sanders Theatre, then are hauled away by Cambridge police called in to reinforce Harvard police...
...December 2, 1991 edition of The Final Call (the Nation of Islam newspaper that anyone who wants a crash course in anti-Semitism should read), Jeffries says that I "was a planned enemy of his struggle" for printing my interview with him in the What Is To Be Done? Though it wasn't true at the time, I will wear this distinction like a badge of honor...
...first address to the nation, Boudiaf struck a menacing note. "We will permit no individuals or group to claim a monopoly on Islam and use it to threaten the country," he said. Those are certain to be heard as fighting words by the F.I.S. As yet, the party's acting leader, Abdelkader Hachani, has steered clear of incendiary rhetoric that might catapult Islamists into the street and give the authorities a pretext to ban the party. Last week, when riot police surrounded the mosque where Hachani was conducting Friday prayers, a traditional forum for political messages, he counseled, "Whatever happens...