Word: muslim
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York debut was part of a week-long interreligious festival. Overblown publicity claimed: "For the very first time the spiritual-symbolic leaders of 2.7 billion people are coming to the United States." Not exactly, but those who did appear included the head of the World Fellowship of Buddhists, a Muslim statesman, a Hindu swami, teachers of Zen and India's Jain religion, a Sioux medicine man and a psychic ex-astronaut. The program also offered Shinto, Jewish and Buddhist rituals. At week's end representatives of the major faiths spoke at the United Nations...
...queen whom Ali's acquaintances have been referring to as the fighter's "second wife." His legal wife, however, is Belinda Ali, who last week flew to Manila to join her husband-and Veronica-on the eve of his title defense against heavyweight Joe Frazier. As a Muslim, Ali is technically entitled to four spouses, but neither the U.S. nor Belinda sees it that way. So, eleven hours after her arrival, an angry Belinda boarded a plane back to the U.S. "My wife rides around in two Rolls-Royces, two Eldorados," said Ali later. "We have...
Voyeuristic Shudder. Bad times became a way of life. The Muslim Ottoman Empire reduced Armenians to second-class citizens; then, as Asia Minor lurched toward "modernity," Turkey began its series of oppressions. They ended with lethal, unprovoked sweeps across the hills, torturing and killing no one knows how many millions. In 1910, a recent Oxford graduate named Arnold Toynbee meticulously described the "fiendish" mutilations and abasements. As late as 1918 Henry Morgenthau, U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, protested the mass killings of Armenian women and children. The Turkish Minister of the Interior gave a blanket reply to such plaintiffs: "Those...
...with his father and twice dropped out of the movement. Moreover, he does not have his father's compelling personal force. But so far, at least, he appears to be holding off the fierce power struggle that had been widely expected to follow Elijah's passing. Certainly, Muslim Spokesman Abdul Haleem (Louis) Farrakhan, the most charismatic figure in the movement today, is at pains to dispel rumors that he was moved from his potent Harlem base to the sect's Chicago headquarters so that Wallace could keep a closer eye on him. At last week...
...days and hundreds of phone calls a week have helped him outflank such established matchmakers as Madison Square Garden and Top Rank, Inc., a longtime promoter and closed-circuit telecaster of Ali fights. Of course he has not been hurt by the cooperation of Ali and his manager, Black Muslim Executive Herbert Muhammad, who are happy to break old traditions and deal with a black promoter...