Word: muslim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...make fatwas, but to say the truth," he said. Though his manner is good humored, Sheik Omar grows sharp when railing against the "dishonest" Western media and denouncing the brutal tactics of Egyptian security forces, abuses that are also well documented by human-rights organizations. His harsh interpretations of Muslim scriptures have won the allegiance of many young and disaffected Egyptians...
...Salam Mosque, if unknown to the world at large before last week, has something of a mixed reputation in Jersey City. After Salameh's arrest, local merchants quietly voiced their relief. One shopkeeper described the worshippers as "bloody men who want to see everyone who isn't a Muslim killed." He also claimed that a shop owner had been harassed after he criticized the mosque in a television interview following the Kahane murder. "They made his life difficult and even fire bombed the store," he said. But a young Coptic Christian, who runs a bakery near the mosque, dismisses such...
People who live in the neighborhood said they have not seen Sheik Omar since Ramadan, the Muslim holy month of fasting, which began on Feb. 22. Mohammed Mehdi, secretary-general of the National Council on Islamic Affairs, said the sheik left New York to visit friends in Detroit. Mehdi added that Sheik Omar was exhausted by the publicity surrounding the January hearing in a federal immigration court in Newark, New Jersey, when the cleric was threatened with deportation for failing to disclose on his visa application that he had passed a bad check in Egypt. The judge...
...moment, the government does not recognize any political parties based on religion. Mubarak has hardened his suspicions about such self-styled moderate Islamic groups as the Muslim Brotherhood. And both sides have learned lessons from the military coup that followed the 1992 legislative election victory of fundamentalists in Algeria. Islamists have concluded that attempts to achieve political reform through democratic processes are meaningless; the government fears that political recognition of religious-based parties will further polarize the situation...
Egypt is hardly alone in contending with a rebirth of Muslim fundamentalism. A tide of religious fervor has been sweeping across the Islamic belt, threatening to turn half a dozen countries into theocratic states akin to Iran, Sudan and Afghanistan. Terrorism, intolerance and revolution for export are some of the by-products. In their drive for cultural ascendancy, Islamists have found fertile ground in denouncing Western values -- and inspiring violent assaults...