Word: muslimism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shahak advocates equal rights for all residents of Israel--whether they be Jewish, Christian or Muslim, Middle Eastern or European in background, Israeli citizens or residents of the occupied territories...
Shahak views the upswing in "religious fanaticism," among both Muslims in the Arab nations and the Jews in Israel, with dismay. He is skeptical of just what "secularism" is taken to mean. He recalls a PLO custom in pre-civil-war Labanon. When a Palestinian fighter died in combat, his funeral procession would be led by a Muslim mufti [religious leader] and a Christian priest walking hand in hand. "This doesn't mean secularity," Shahak concludes with a laugh. "'Secular' means, for people like me, putting the clergy in their place...
Rosh Hashanah last week marked the first day of 5738 according to the Jewish calendar, but it was not a happy new year in Israel. In Egypt, meanwhile, a smiling President Anwar Sadat declared that it was the best gift he had received for Bairam, the joyful Muslim festival that follows the month-long Ramadan fast. The gift-and the cause of Israeli gloom -was a U.S. policy statement issued by the State Department to the effect that Palestinians "must be represented" at any reconvened Geneva peace talks. Coming on the eve of Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan's visit...
...world as travel writers, and a toadish old sultan called Buffles, who keeps the past alive with elaborate polo parties. The village itself is a cultural stockpot of Chinese secret societies, Communist cells, Indian sports clubs and groups calling themselves the South Malaysian Pineapple Growers' Association, the Muslim League, the Legion of Mary and the Methodist Ramblers...
...Israelis refused to become directly involved, fearing that it could lead to another all-out Middle East war. But they began to aid the Christians as well as various conservative Muslim groups that were fighting the left-wing parties and the Palestinians. Publicly, Jerusalem made a big show of the food and medical aid-and even jobs-it began offering Christians from south Lebanon. "This became the 'shop window' of our aid to the Christians," a former Israeli Cabinet minister told Halevy. "But our main interest was the Beirut-Jounieh area and the mountains of Lebanon-the Christian...