Word: jihad
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...century phenomenon, the refusal to accept what under other circumstances would be considered a foregone scientific conclusion. On Website after Website, in book after much hyped book and in the Turin Cathedral this week, an act of rebellion is under way. It is not as sweeping as the creationists' jihad against Darwin, but it is also far more focused: what is under attack here is not a vast theory with admitted gaps but a specific experiment on a specific piece of cloth--an apparently pure application of the scientific method that the West has taken for granted since the days...
Microsoft and Netscape continue to fight a jihad,with each side making their browser products more powerful and feature-laden. Today's browsers do far more than surf the Web; they contain integrated e-mail and news clients, push technologies like Active Desktop and Netcaster and include real-time audio conferencing capabilities...
IRAQ "Let Clinton and his entourage drown in the scandal. And let us pursue the path of the great jihad for the complete lifting of the unjust sanctions." --Editorial, Al-Qadissiya...
...need to understand the cultural reasoning of America's adversaries. Your article demonstrated a knowledge of the workings of Saddam's mind. He is concerned not with world opinion but with becoming a leader of an Islamic jihad that will topple the "Great Satan" (the U.S.). In order to be successful, we must obtain open support from the Arab countries in the region before taking any action. We cannot allow Iraq's leader to be viewed as an Islamic martyr; he must be seen for the tyrant he is. Any assassination attempt on his life by the West would...
...catered dinner followed by a lecture entitled, "Jihad in America?" Tickets are $5 in advance, $6 at the door. Sponsored by the Harvard Islamic Society as part of Islam Awareness Week (November 17-21). Harkness North Dining Hall, Harvard Law School...