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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Banning the buss has made parting a sweeter sorrow. "Kissing is up 100%," says Assistant Village Manager Marjorie Emery. Reports Commuter Lawrence Rosskin: "I take a later train so my wife and I can linger under the sign a while." So popular are the signs that they must be taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Ban the Buss! | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

The U.S. never colonized Islamic countries, as, for example, Britain and France did. The U.S. has no large Islamic minority and thus, unlike the Soviet Union, has no record of bitter internal relations with Muslims. Besides (as some Muslim leaders know), Communism is far more inimical to Islam than capitalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Islam Against the West? | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Iran embodies both the essence of the Islamic complaint against the West and unique historical grievances of its own. By race (Aryan), language (Persian), religion (Shi'ite Muslim) and historical tradition (ancient Persia was conquered by Muslims in the 8th century), Iran is different from the rest of Middle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Islam Against the West? | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

In this encounter of East and West, the rage on either side has a way of spiraling up in a murderous double helix: the anger of the Muslims may feed on itself, and the countering anger of the West may further ignite the anger of Islam. So great is the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Islam Against the West? | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

It should be possible for Americans to preserve an intelligent sympathy for the Islamic perspective without feeling vaguely guilt-stricken by the past. Anti-Americanism-the specific, sharper focus of anti-Westernism-is in some ways the Islamic world's excuse for its own failures, confusions and periodic collapses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Islam Against the West? | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

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