Word: muslims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...groups Ali said would receive money from his fights were the National Association for the Advancement of colored People (NAACP) and the Nation of Islam, which is a religious sect known as the Black Muslims. Ali is a Black Muslim...
Although Chad's 52% Muslim majority, as well as its 5% Christian minority, condemn the pagan rites, no effective opposition has been organized. A secret meeting of Chad's church leaders was held in August. So far, they have not dared to speak out for fear of reprisal: the 130 assassinated churchmen were apparently killed for preaching against the rites. Until the dictatorial Tombalbaye can be persuaded to soften his drastic decree, many Chadians will have to choose between possible death from undergoing Yondo and certain death for resisting...
...religious beliefs appeared to be a confused amalgam largely of his own devising. Said a Columbus neighbor, Denise Underwood, 20: "One week he was eating this because he wanted to be a Jew; then one week he wouldn't eat this because he wanted to be a Muslim." The core of his murky philosophy was hatred of Christianity. Probably central to his motivation was his sense of inadequacy and need for attention. Only two weeks before the killings he told a friend that he would soon "be all over the newspapers...
...Kissinger showed a genuine interest in archaeological and religious sites. In Damascus, she visited the ancient Umayyad mosque and the Turkish baths. There she startled her conservative Muslim guide by asking whether men and women had ever bathed there together. The horrified guide said, "Oh, no, no!" He then added that women had been allowed to bathe but separately. In Israel, she toured the fortress at Masada where Jewish zealots made a suicidal last stand against the Roman Legion in A.D. 73. Later she helicoptered to the ruins of Capernaum on the Sea of Galilee. Near the site, she chatted...
...DeFreeze was buried in Cleveland, where he grew up and members of his family still live. At the request of the family, services for the S.L.A. leader, who had been fascinated by guns ever since he was a juvenile delinquent, were conducted by blacks belonging to the Sunni Orthodox Muslim sect, though the dead man was not believed to be a Muslim. As the tan metal coffin was carried out of the church, hundreds in the crowd of 1,500 raised their arms to give the clenched-fist salute of black power...