Word: islamize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sahara -hiring the few available trucks, renting plots of land and even booking rooms in an old French Foreign Legion post. Told that the strangers are there to watch the moon black out the sun, some believers in the oasis town of Chinguetti-the seventh holiest city of Islam-are incredulous. "How can you tell the sun will darken?" a herdsman asks. "Only God can know that...
Within the University are represented Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, the Divine Light Mission, the Process, agnosticism, atheism, and religious apathy. The Committee on the Future of Memorial Church has begun to consider the University's response to that diversity. It is a consideration that deserves far more public attention than it has received...
...from the airport, you encounter some of the enormous changes that have taken place since Gaddafi seized power nearly four years ago. The domed Cathedral of the Sacred Heart of Jesus still dominates the center of the capital. But its doors are locked, and the star and crescent of Islam have replaced the cross atop the spires. Everywhere, curling, zigzagging Arabic letters have supplanted the Latin alphabet. In front of the Souk al-Turk (Turkish bazaar), there is a statue of Septimius Severus, the Roman Emperor (A.D. 146-211) who was born in Libya. A visitor would not know...
...mostly the product of "Italian and British imperialism." Since it would take years to draft a new code, he suspended all existing laws and authorized the people's committees to proceed on an ad hoc basis, governed only by "the full precepts of justice, the commandments of Islam and the interests of the people." The committees have gone on a witch-hunting, book-burning binge, aimed at restoring Libya to Islamic purity...
...young Churchill duly records the Crown's triumph in the Sudan over "these savages with their vile customs and brutal ideas." But in South Africa, he praises "the stubborn, unpretentious valour of the Boer." British set backs make him fudge, apologize, sermonize. He is capable of humor, though. "Islam," he writes, "does indeed teach man how to die, [but] dying is a trick very few people have been unable to pick...