Word: muslim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Members of the Islamic community say they hope the center's establishment will promote education and dispel negative Muslim stereotypes, which they say are ubiquitous in the local media...
...Islamic Jihad leader Fathi Shkaki spoke with Time correspondent Lara Marlowe in Damascus, giving a chilling picture of how he says the attack was planned. Though he disclaimed direct responsibility, he was obviously pleased, grinning and laughing throughout the interview. Born in the Gaza Strip, Shkaki, 44, joined the Muslim Brotherhood, a conservative Islamist group, while studying medicine in Egypt in the '70s. He returned to the Gaza Strip in 1981 and founded Islamic Jihad. Shkaki's movement set itself apart from other groups with similar names by staging suicide attacks in Israel and the occupied territories. Deported...
...Israeli government, trying to save thePalestinian peace accordin the face of public outrage over the weekend bombing, launched an offensive against militant Muslim groups. One new idea: a $230 million electric fence to separate Israel from the West Bank's 1.2 million Palestinians. On the West Bank today, Israeli troops rounded up dozens of Muslim activists, ransacked a mosque and welded shut the doors of extremists' headquarters. PLO leader Yasser Arafat, meanwhile, blamed the Muslim groups for his failure to deliver peace with Israel in the territories, saying "those who broke the ceasefire now wanted nothing but to kill...
...home. When they prayed that God bless them and everybody, Daddy was part of everything." The mother hid her copies of the posthumously published Autobiography of Malcolm X because they showed his corpse, but Attallah says she and Qubilah found them. Fareed Nu'man, a researcher with the American Muslim Council in Washington, says Qubilah "had the roughest time" of all the Shabazz daughters coping with their father's loss. Mary Ryan, a Shabazz neighbor, agrees, adding "She was kind of a lonesome child, but friendly...
...three-week truce in Bosnia neared the edge of collapse today, as fighting escalated in the northwest and both Bosnian Serbs and Muslims violated the terms of the agreement. Despite the Muslim government's claim that all its soldiers had been withdrawn form a demilitarized zone, U.N. inspectors found about 60 still hunkered down there. The Serbs refused to carry out their pledge to open a land route out of beseiged Sarajevo. Instead, they blocked movement of U.N. military convoys in much of the territory they control. Sunday, Serb shelling in Bihac, in northwest Bosnia, killed two teen-age girls...