Word: muslim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Muslim. in Buffalo, New York, as in other cities across our nation, Muslim communities came under attack immediately after the bombing [COVER, May 1]. Women who wore Islamic head scarves were intimidated; families, mosques and schools got bomb and death threats. This is exactly the kind of extremism that led to this vicious act in the first place. If we rush blindly toward hatred and violence, what separates "us" from "them"? Did all those people in Oklahoma City, those children, die for nothing? There are lessons in this...
When spring comes to the Balkans, so do the rockets, the bullets and the artillery shells. In Croatia the cease-fire brokered by the U.N. in January 1992 has just suffered its most egregious breach yet. In Bosnia the Muslim-dominated Bosnian government and the rebel Serbs have both spent the winter arming and training. A four-month-old cease-fire between them expired on May 1. It had begun to break down weeks before, and with the warm weather, the conflict between the parties is sure to intensify. Meanwhile, the nearly 40,000 U.N. peacekeepers in the region...
...there is a darker side to the Panthers' promising beginning. Tensions erupt in the wake of Betty Shabazz's visit when the Panthers discover that her Muslim escort had not loaded their guns. The message is clear and chilling: these guns are meant to be used. From then on, each encounter with the police is fraught with horrible tension; the police will not continue to tolerate this threat to their authority, while the Panthers are prepared to defend themselves and the Black community at the first sign of violence...
...sense of guilty introspection swept the country when the FBI released sketches of the suspects, distinctly Caucasian John Does 1 and 2. Immediately after the Oklahoma blast, some politicians and commentators had fingered Islamic terrorists as the most likely culprits, fueling anti-Muslim sentiment and triggering calls for tougher anti-immigration measures. The feds suggested that the Does, as McVeigh seems to bear out, were members of a right-wing citizen militia targeting government agencies housed in the Alfred P. Murrah Building. Although Oklahoma police authorities were schooled in the hate groups blooming like some deadly nightshade on the fringes...
...Allis, our Boston bureau chief, examined the atrocity's wider repercussions: "It was not until a Muslim student at Oklahoma University told me he feared for his life that I realized the bombing would hurt different people in different ways." Correspondent Ed Barnes' hunch that the terrorists might this time prove to be American was cinched when he learned the birth date that was cited on the fake driver's license used to rent the bomber's truck: April 19. Barnes recognized the date as one that is near talismanic to the survivalist fringe he had observed while reporting...