Word: muhammad
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...patrol, drawn from young men known as the Fruit of Islam, got off to a rough start. On their first day, a group of Muslims beat up a suspected drug dealer who was carrying a shotgun, as well as a television cameraman. The local Muslim leader, Dr. Abdul Alim Muhammad, later apologized to the cameraman...
...greatest of our time," said the undefeated young barbarian, 21, who meant it kindly. "I always used to want Holmes to win, except when he fought Ali." So even afterward, Tyson was landing one- twos. In the prefight keynote, one last time, the vague old champ Muhammad Ali was paraded in front of the unfortunate man whom history had designated to follow him. Later, as Holmes spun drunkenly about the ring, Ali's former corner physician Ferdie Pacheco murmured, "Those are the knockdowns that make you walk funny when you're 40." Once he could think again, Holmes said...
...around the 30-acre Temple Mount and through the narrow, winding streets of Jerusalem's Old City. Protesters, tourists and the police themselves choked on the cloud of tear gas that enshrouded the golden Dome of the Rock, the ciborium that stands on the site from which the Prophet Muhammad is said to have ascended to heaven on a white horse. At one point, after a police officer was beaten, his comrades chased a group of demonstrators into al-Aqsa mosque itself, normally off limits to any military personnel. The fearsome scene seemed to encapsulate all the hatred...
When the Democrats held their first debate, in July, there were signs of opening-night nervousness: Albert Gore mangled the name of President James Polk, and Bruce Babbitt bobbed and weaved in his chair like a young Muhammad Ali. Last week it was the Republicans' turn to face William Buckley's Firing Line. From the moment the G.O.P. six-pack strode onto the Houston stage, all visual cues suggested that they were indeed different from their Democratic counterparts. They seemed reassuringly familiar, more experienced, older and collectively radiated -- to borrow one of Buckley's Latinisms -- gravitas...
Faithful Shi'ites admit only to the authority of Muhammad and the Twelve Imams, who comprise Ali, Hussein and certain of their direct descendants. The Shi'ites consider the Twelve to be mediators between God and man. Though the Twelfth and last Imam went into hiding in A.D. 940, Shi'ites believe that he will re-emerge to rule the world as the messianic Mahdi. Until that time, the Shi'ite clergy are responsible for interpreting Islam. The Ayatullah Khomeini, however, has gone one step further by establishing his government as a regency for the Mahdi. Khomeini, who claims descent...