Word: muslims
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last week, with no leads on a mechanical cause for the crash of the flight, the case's investigator told the Associated Press that the Egyptian Muslim co-pilot had made a "cryptic reference to Allah" (News, Nov. 17) as the plane was going down. Had it been a Christian American pilot crying "God help me," such a suggestion would never have been made...
Indeed, this is not the first nor will it be the last error of its kind. Immediately after the Oklahoma City bombing, many officials and journalists were quick to announce that the most likely culprits were the local Arab and Muslim communities, and the FBI put out two sketches of "Middle Eastern looking" individuals who were suspected of planting the bomb. In fact, one "expert," Steven Emerson, who recently visited Harvard and gave a talk about the dangers of Islam in America, was quoted as saying, "This was done with the intent to inflict as many casualties as possible. That...
...what can we learn from this? One policy that should be considered by the media and government is to think before they speak. And, for now at least, Arab and Muslim Americans should get used to the fact that they are "guilty until proven innocent," and they should try to clear up these misconceptions and stereotypes that run rampant through the nation...
...Wednesday rejected the Vatican?s accusation that the Jewish state was fomenting religious division by permitting the new building next to the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth. "In the end it was simply a political decision," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "There are a lot more Muslim voters in Israel than there are Christian voters. That's what influenced the government to accommodate them, even though they had no legitimate historical claim to the land." Local Muslims had lobbied hard to build alongside the church, which stands on the site where Mary is said to have learned...
...Nazareth row casts a shadow over the planned visit to Israel by Pope John Paul II next March. But although the Vatican is deeply irritated by Israel's decision, there's no indication thus far that it will postpone the visit. Nazareth Muslim leader Suleiman Abu Ahmed sought to play down divisions, saying, "We are going to build a Mosque to pray to God, the same God of the Christians and the Jews." He promised that the mosque would be "the brother of the church." But worship always carries a political motif in the hotly contested Holy Land. The Nazareth...