Word: islamize
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Islamabad's Marriott hotel on Sept. 20, the explosion destroyed the hotel, killed at least 60, injured hundreds and sent a powerful reminder to anyone who had not yet got the message: Pakistan is now the central front in the war between the U.S. and its allies and radical Islam...
...standard-bearers swarm across oceans and mountains, propagating a vitriolic doctrine of bigotry and intolerance like a biblical plague. It inculcates its devotees with a fanatical certainty in the verity of its dogma and the simultaneous disdain for all alternative dogma. Of the great religions, only Christianity and Islam can rival the enthusiasm of its proselytizing efforts...
...During the height of conservative whispers about then-candidate Barack Obama’s secret adherence to Islam, Maher parried the smears with one of his own, saying, “…You can’t be president if you practice a violent, Middle-Eastern religion and worship a genocidal desert god, which is why [Alaska Governor] Sarah Palin can’t be president...
...point, the Punisher is asked who punishes him. The better question for those who made this inane bloodfest is: Why punish us?” Books “The Second Plane” by Martin Amis: Martin Amis hates religion in general and Islam in particular, and this book is his little opportunity to vent freely. Bigotry fuels essays and stories that ridicule Islamists and attack religion for its lack of reason. Does that sound angry? Terry Eagleton, an English philosopher, declared that Amis’s writings read like those of a “BNP thug?...
...Worldwide, there are 190,000 Zoroastrians at most, and perhaps as few as 124,000 by some estimates. Although Zoroastrians are few in number, their faith has influenced Judaism, Christianity and Islam with its teachings of a single deity, a dualistic universe of good versus evil, and a final day of reckoning. The religion professes that humankind is designed to evolve toward perfection, but is complicated by evil forces such as greed, lust and hatred, explains Mehraban Firouzgary, the head priest of the Zoroastrian temple in Tehran. According to Zoroastrians, these evil forces must be challenged proactively by developing...