Word: khomeini
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...rule, a number of Muslim groups have now emerged to lay claim to political and economic power. Early last month Muslim youth vigilantes armed with sharpened bamboo spears were positioned around Jakarta to harass pro-democracy student demonstrators. Last week pictures of the former Iranian revolutionary leader Ayatullah Khomeini began to appear in street demonstrations. Though there have always been attacks against Indonesia's small but powerful Chinese community, the new attacks are taking on a dangerous religious character. "It's the most dangerous thing--the abuse of religion for political ends," says Enoch Markum, president of the Indonesian Psychologists...
...Hard Sell"). Yet somehow out of a situation which initially seems as gimmicky as Dennis Rodman comes dazzling observations on life. In "I Dated Jane Austen", the fraility of dating is shown in a stunning expose of the narrator's exploits with the famous 19th century author. The Ayatollah Khomeini is the subject of an image makeover in "Hard Sell...
...Year: Ayatullah Khomeini Jan. 7, 1980 2. Last Tango in Paris cover Jan. 22, 1973 3. Editorial calling on Nixon to resign Nov. 12, 1973 4. The Starr Report Sept...
...While Iran hasn't actually lifted the late Ayatollah Khomeini's religious decree ordering Rushdie's death, it has said that it will not support the $2.5 million reward offered by a private foundation, and that it won't carry out the death sentence. "A fatwa is simply a religious edict, but this one's power came from the fact that it had been endorsed by a government," says TIME Middle East bureau chief Scott MacLeod. "Britain would not have restored diplomatic relations severed over the Rushdie issue unless they were convinced Iran was serious." So, while Rushdie may still...
Maybe the most remarkable change is in the nation's official rhetoric, so memorably filled with anti-U.S. invective when Khomeini was alive. On the first anniversary of Khatami's election last month, tens of thousands of supporters crammed into an outdoor theater at Tehran University to hear a speech by the President. They cheered and stamped their feet, shouted, "Khatami, we love you!" and denounced the conservative mullahs in Qum as "Taliban," an insulting allusion to the ultra-fundamentalists governing neighboring Afghanistan. When a small section of hard-line students began yelling "Death to America!" the President reprimanded...