Word: madrasahs
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...cool!" he jokes, imagining white suburban kids wearing headdresses and saying "What up, Mustafa?") But there's something to the theory--just look at Barack Obama. His biggest problems with bigotry--besides being called "not black enough"--have been insinuations about his Muslim father, rumors that he attended a madrasah, jokes about his middle name (Hussein) and the Freudian confusion of his surname with "Osama" on CNN and in the New York Post...
...don’t know how copy editors remember them,” Gewen said. “It’s like there’s some kind of madrasah, and instead of learning the Koran they’re learning the stylebook...
...police station (a McDonald's has also opened on the road). As Peck understands, it's this juxtaposition of the present and the past, of the mundane and the macabre, that is Delhi's special delight for art and history buffs. On the terrace of an abandoned 14th century madrasah in the neighborhood of Hauz Khas, you can stand on the stone steps where Mongol conqueror Timur the Lame walked in 1398, admiring the city whose inhabitants he had butchered (his contribution to Delhi's architecture-pyramids of skulls-has thankfully been lost). Sitting in Haldiram's, a vegetarian eatery...
...worked on the security detail for one of Saddam's inner circle and joined an insurgent group formed from the Republican Guard following the U.S. invasion in 2003. After he was captured by the U.S. and sent to Abu Ghraib prison, Abu Abdullah enrolled in a prison-yard madrasah, or religious school; by the time he was released, he identified himself as a holy warrior for Islam. Today he is what the military calls a tier-two al-Qaeda leader, commanding cells in and around Baghdad...
...play a role. War Within's Hassan is radicalized after American agents snatch him in Paris as a terrorism suspect and send him to Pakistan to be tortured. In Syriana a young Pakistani immigrant can't find work in a rich Persian Gulf nation, so he joins an extremist madrasah, but the movie's sprawling story also faults the U.S. for supporting corrupt, oil-rich despots...