Word: muslim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from our culture of individual rights, I was offended by the fact that I, one among dozens of passengers, was pulled aside simply because of my last name and the way I looked. And for the first time in my life, someone saw me first and foremost as a Muslim, and doubted my legitimacy as a person because...
...Bruce Willis and Annette Bening. Billed as a "reality" movie, The Siege presents the all-too-plausible scenario of a group of terrorists wreaking havoc in New York City while our government leaders fumble and search for ways to cope. Following the bombing of American embassies in Africa by Muslim extremists and other escalating terrorist advances against the U.S., the film depicts events very similar to those that are happening around us, much as Primary Colors did about the Clinton sex scandal. An action film taught with suspense, The Siege has also raised the ire of Arab-American groups fuming...
...lecture, co-sponsored by the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, Lowell House and the South Asian Association, was introduced by Ali S.A. Asani '77, professor of the practice of Indo-Muslim languages and culture, who stated that Kamal was, by his own admission, a "somewhat provocative" speaker...
Citing a history of cultural and political differences between predominantly Hindu India and Muslim Pakistan, Kamal said nuclear tests conducted by both countries in May brought tensions to a climax...
There's a lot packed into The Siege, and the strains of its plotting sometimes show. So does the effort to disarm ethnic and religious protests by insisting on the distinction between the peaceful Muslim majority and the terrorist minority. These passages are obvious (and probably useless) in ways that the rest of the movie is not. But Zwick, who directed Glory, remains good with both massed action and more intensely intimate confrontations, and better still at finding ways to sound and sustain a humane and compassionate note, no matter how bloody the spectacle out of which it arises...