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America is no longer a nation of one religion, and Americans cannot afford to view it as such. Islam has been called the second largest religion in America, and the fastest growing. There are five million Muslim Americans, with one million being converts to Islam. As individuals, we are contributing members of this society, and our hope is to become more involved in the issues which confront all of us: poverty, abuse, break-up of families and communities, prejudice, crime, and the lack of goodwill, respect, and trust between people...
Chicago's Evans Food Products, which claims to be the largest U.S. pork-rind producer, predicts that annual sales in the $200 million-a-year industry will rise 10% during 1989. Evans hopes to profit from the pork rind's upper-crust patron with a new brand called Presidential Pork Rinds, which features a red- white-and-blue label. The company is planning promotional stickers that will proclaim SKINS...
...Verses, has precipitated what some Islamic experts regard as the most incendiary literary fight in the 14 centuries of Islamic history. Last week the controversy spread from the dusty streets of Pakistan to the offices of European publishers and to the shopping malls of America, where the nation's largest booksellers ordered all copies of The Satanic Verses removed from the shelves. Suddenly the name Salman Rushdie was on the lips of millions, many reviling him but others expressing sympathy and genuinely wondering how a novel could elicit such deadly passion. The dispute reminded Westerners once again of the zealous...
While those numbers are not staggering when compared with the mass anti-apartheid protests of 1986, they are the largest of this academic year. And though they were unrelated to the Tutu announcement--the rally was planned several days before Tutu's candidacy was released publicly--growing student interest could mean that Tutu's election will resuscitate what has been termed the dying divestment movement...
Opponents of the imperial system announced dozens of demonstrations and rallies, however, including a seven-hour rock concert sponsored by the United Church of Christ, Japan's largest Protestant denomination...