Word: korans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...activism ignited early. He walked miles to school, often slept in a mosque, and was booted out of secondary school after starting a student strike. He later entered a military academy, where he immersed himself in the Koran and the passionate speeches in praise of Arab nationalism by Gamal Abdel Nasser, whom Gaddafi came to worship. After graduating, he spent ten months at a British army signals school...
Guided by his own principles, Gaddafi eliminated all private enterprise, all rental properties, and froze bank accounts. He mandated the creation of so-called People's Committees, which were meant to institutionalize the Koran's concept of consultation. Today the committees run virtually all aspects of Libyan daily life and help suppress any opposition to the regime. By 1978 Gaddafi declared that Libya had become the first jamahiriyah, which means a state without a government, or a people's state. Gaddafi subsequently resigned from his official positions and took for himself the title of Leader of the Revolution. Despite...
...Conwell had alienated some by expressing "genuine sympathy" for the captors and equating the hostage taking with Israel's detention of hundreds of Shi'ites. Hill, for one, declared that Conwell had been "sucked in." Said an outraged Hill: "I asked him if he was going to carry the Koran and Islamic prayer beads with him to the White House...
...kill a third, whom they identified as "Charles Kipper," along with three Kuwaiti diplomats if their demands were not met. The American and Kuwaiti hostages, the hijackers declared, were "no more than a group of criminals who deserve to be killed according to the judgment of God and the Koran" and would never be let go, only "killed or buried under the aircraft wreckage...
Dressed in a khaki army jacket and black-and-white kaffiyeh, Arafat looked incongruous in the sea of dark business suits. Peppering his talk with quotes from the Koran, Arafat called for more terrorist operations against Israel. Though he did not mention the P.L.O. dissidents or Assad by name, Arafat obliquely admitted his own fallibility by referring to "some errors" in the Palestinian movement. Nonetheless, he asked for a vote of confidence. "I will accept any verdict or judgment," he declared...