Word: moslem
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...religious sect of Judaism that closely follows the laws of the Torah, Both words have a very similar literal meaning. However, they have very different connotations. "Orthodox" connotes a legitimate religious sect; "fundamentalist" connotes fanaticism and terrorism. Thus, the devout Jew is seen as deeply religious, whereas the devout Moslem is seen as a fanatic and terrorist. Such semantic differences become more apparent when we try to imagine a world where there are "fundamentalist Jews" and "Orthodox Moslems...
Meanwhile, the United Nations said the Serbs hit the besieged northwestern Moslem town of Bihac, a U.N. "safe area," with two rockets today, killing three people and wounding at least 45. In the Hague, top military commanders from most of the 20 nations with U.N. troops in Bosnia said they now want to give peacekeepers attack helicopters and specialized troops to make the peacekeeping mission more effective...
...such punditry is wide of the mark. Far from lending support to Middle Eastern despotisms, Said has harshly criticized them. He spoke out (while academe remained largely silent) for Salman Rushdie against the Iranian mullahs and their fatwa: "Those of us from the Moslem part of this world cannot accept the notion that democratic freedoms should be abrogated to protect Islam." He has inveighed against Saddam Hussein in Iraq and Hafez Assad in Syria. The "traditional discourse" of Arab nationalism, he wrote on the eve of the Gulf War, is "unresponsive, anomalous, even comic." The Arab media are "a disgrace...
Yazdi said that people in the West should not fear Islam, and added that the revolution has had a positive effect on all Moslem communities...
Epps said that Malcolm X was silenced for 90 days by the Black Moslem movement, ostensibly for comments he made about the Kennedy assassination, but in actuality because he posed a threat to Elijah Mohammed, the movement's leader...