Word: non-muslim
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...Imam, an ascetic spiritual leader whose teachings are unquestioned. To hundreds of millions of others, he is a fanatic whose judgments are harsh, reasoning bizarre and conclusions surreal. He is learned in the ways of Shari'a (Islamic law) and Platonic philosophy, yet astonishingly ignorant of and indifferent to non-Muslim culture. Rarely has so improbable a leader shaken the world...
...Iranian revolution could become a model for future uprisings throughout the Third World?and not only its Islamic portion. Non-Muslim nations too are likely to be attracted by the spectacle of a rebellion aimed at expelling all foreign influence in the name of xenophobic nationalism...
...appeal of Khomeini's Islamic fundamentalism to non-Muslim nations in the Third World is limited. Not so the wave of nationalism he unleashed in Iran. Warns William Quandt, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution: "People in the Third World were promised great gains upon independence [from colonialism], and yet they still find their lives and societies in a_ mess." Historically, such unfulfilled expectations prepare the ground for revolution, and the outbreak in Iran offers an example of an uprising that embodies a kind of nose-thumbing national pride...
...philosopher-king. His peers, however, generally believe that on matters of Islamic scholarship he is less profound than some of his fellow ayatullahs?notably Seyed Kazem Sharietmadari. Numerous Western scholars who have spoken to him have been shocked by his ignorance of modern life. He knows little of the non-Muslim world, and regards it with morbid suspicion...
Although he abandoned the Black Muslims' demand for separation of the races, he could see that black nationalism was a valuable tactic, and was groping for a non-Muslim definition of the term in the last months of his life. Black nationalism "had the ability to instill within black men the racal dignity, the incentive and the confdence that the black race needs today to get up off its knees... and stand up on its feet...