Word: muslim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...alliance between the Muslim-dominated Bosnian Government and the Bosnian Croats may offer a way out of the war, but only if the international community is willing to fully back the new "federation." And in the Balkans that means with guns. Lots of them...
Terrorist--this term has recently become almost synonymous with the words Arab and Muslim fundamentalist...
Similarly it is never reported that the Islamic faith prohibits terrorism. The media unthinkingly attributes acts of violence to Muslim fundamentalists. Yet the term Muslim fundamentalist refers to those who follow the literal wording of the Qur'an, and in Islamic law there is no justification for terrorism...
When an Arab or Muslim commits an act of violence all of Islam is implicated, but when a non-Arab, non-Muslim commits an act, especially in the Middle East, the perpetrators are portrayed as aberrations and the focus is often shifted away from the incident itself...
While the violent acts of any Muslim, practicing or not , are blamed on all of Islam, Goldstein was depicted as a maverick, or even a lunatic. Thus, the massacre was reported as a departure from the norm. However, Goldstein's act of hate was not an isolated incident...