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...term Hymie and referred to New York City as "Hymietown." To the Muslim leader, the reporter violated black solidarity by writing a story that hurt Jackson. Coleman and other black journalists, he said, are "pure chump operatives]" of white editors. Farrakhan's 10,000-member sect, an offshoot of the less militant and racially integrated American Muslim Mission (membership: 100,000), has provided guards for Jackson. At a Nation of Islam rally a little over a month ago, Farrakhan touched off a brouhaha by threatening Jackson critics, especially Jews. "If you harm this brother," he vowed, with Jackson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Punish the Traitor: Milton Coleman | 4/16/1984 | See Source »

Jackson's defenders noted that he has been a target of harassment throughout the campaign. A group called Jews Against Jackson, an offshoot of the radical Jewish Defense League that has been disavowed by leaders of most Jewish organizations, pledged publicly to disrupt his candidacy. Two of its members were arrested for interrupting his announcement speech on Nov. 3 in Washington, D.C. A window in Jackson's New Hampshire campaign headquarters in Manchester was smashed, and his campaign offices in Garden Grove, Calif., were fire bombed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Belatedly, Jackson Comes Clean | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

There is a fundamental doctrinal reason for such enmity. Islam proclaims that Muhammad was the "Seal of the Prophets," God's final messenger to mankind. But the Baha'i faith-an offshoot of Shi'ism, which is itself a minority branch of Islam-asserts that two prophets came after Muhammad. To Muslims this constitutes a new, perverted faith. The first prophet was Mirza 'Ali Muhammad, who declared in 1844 that he was the Bab (gate), the pathway to God. He was executed in 1850 as a heretic. When Persian authorities tried to wipe out his disciples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Slow Death for Iran's Baha'is | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

...offshoot of this role is that Suleiman regularly gets visiting French literary figures to come and lecture at Harvard. "I happen to enjoy it," she says, adding that the role was not foisted upon...

Author: By Charles T. Kurzman, | Title: Susan Suleiman | 2/3/1984 | See Source »

...position as the mam opposition party by picking up eleven seats, for a total of 112. In its best showing ever, the Komeito (Clean Government) Party won 58 seats, up from 31. The Democratic Socialists elected 38 deputies, a gain of six, while the New Liberal Club, an L.D.P. offshoot, lost two of its ten seats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: A Big Shokku for Yasu | 1/2/1984 | See Source »

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