Word: muslims
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...brightest pop stars of the 1970s. Then one day Cat Stevens announced that he was giving up singing to become a Muslim. Now, nine years later, the singer of such hits as Moonshadow and Peace Train has just finished an eleven-day visit to Turkey from his home in London. "My records sold all over Europe, but I was not a man of show business," Stevens, now Yusuf Islam, told Turkish reporters. "I was feeling lost. But once I read the Koran I took refuge in the guidance of Allah. This took the place of secular things. All my concepts...
...elect representatives for a new 301-member National People's Assembly, which will write a constitution and choose a permanent government. After years of Nimeiri's harshly autocratic, one-party rule, Sudan seemed to revel in its new chance at democracy. Candidates representing some 30 different parties, ranging from Muslim fundamentalists to Communists, competed for assembly seats. Major cities like Khartoum and Omdurman were swathed in campaign posters and political banners. "The Sudanese nation," said Suwar al Dahab, "has decided to go ahead with democracy...
...Liberation Army. Led by John Garang, a renegade army colonel, the insurgents now control much of the southern half of the country, where the government last week was forced to postpone indefinitely voting in 37 of the 68 constituencies in the region. The rebels claim that the mainly Muslim and Arab north discriminates against the predominantly animist and Christian blacks in the south, and have vowed to keep fighting, whoever wins the election...
...territory of New Caledonia; and anti-Turkish Armenian terrorist groups. Last month, when Gaddafi played host to the ambitiously titled Congress of the World Center for Struggle Against Imperialism and Zionism, his guests included representatives of the Irish Republican Army, the Basque separatist group ETA and the American Black Muslim Louis Farrakhan. Israeli sources say that Gaddafi maintains some 20 terrorist training camps in Libya, where 7,000 people of various nationalities learn the basics of guerrilla warfare. One U.S. intelligence official reports, "They are recruiting right now a growing number of Palestinians, Greek radicals and Latin Americans for terror...
...those not quite so acclimated with the Christian tradition, a short trip over scenic desert regions and barbed wire would land them in Muslim-Land. Muslims would absolutely flip for the renovated Dome of the Rock, re-done as a religious "Space Mountain" roller-coaster ride...