Word: islamize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Islam has much to do with such attitudes. Religion alone is not strong enough to withstand Communism if other conditions are right; Catholic Cuba and Confucianist China demonstrated that. But Islam has a permeating discipline in Arab culture that shapes politics and unites even dissident leaders like Libya's Gaddafi and Saudi Arabia's King Feisal. Gaddafi subscribes to the same simplistic explanation of the new order offered by Nasser before his death: "The reason that Arab socialism is different from Communism is because our socialism believes in God while Communism is atheistic...
...been refused conscientious-objector status by his draft board. When he went to his draft appeal board, the Justice Department advised it that he was not sincere and that his beliefs, based on the teachings of the Nation of Islam (more familiarly known as the Black Muslims), were "political and racial" in nature, rather than religious as required by law. The appeal board upheld Ali's 1-A classification...
When Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 war, no one was more outspokenly friendly toward the occupiers than Sheik Kamal Kanj. A leader of the Druse, an esoteric sect that broke away from Islam in the 11th century, and a former member of the Syrian Parliament, Kanj had Israel's Deputy Premier Yigal Allon as an overnight guest in his home in the village of Majdal Shams. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan once dined with Kanj in the village. Kanj was so intent on maintaining good relations with Israel that when younger members of the community...
...another exotic moniker for sports fans to stumble over: Kareem Abdul Jabbar, the impressive appellation by which 7-ft. 2-in. Basketball Star Lew Alcindor wishes to be known henceforth. Jabbar, a convert from Roman Catholicism, is not a Black Muslim like Boxer Muhammad Ali, but a member of Islam's orthodox Sunni sect. As for his new name, he explained to a press conference that Kareem means "noble" or "generous"; Abdul, "servant of Allah"; Jabbar, "powerful." Jabbar, who left on a three-week tour of Africa with his bride of one week, added that he did not expect...
...Gamal, 14, as well as with Sadat's two collies, Lassie and Whip. There are also three other daughters, all in their 20s and married to army officers. They are Sadat's children by his first wife; he is still legally married to her, as is permitted in Islam; she still lives in the delta...