Word: orthodox
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...sect has long been riven by factionalism. The most celebrated split was the 1964 departure of Malcolm X, who turned to orthodox Islam and was murdered by three of Elijah Muhammad's followers in 1965. While Farrakhan, who joined in 1955, seems to have played no role in the killing, he gave a speech beforehand implying that Malcolm X deserved...
Elijah was succeeded by his son Wallace, who shifted the movement away from antiwhite anger and toward orthodox Islam. Farrakhan was one of several Nation leaders who resisted Wallace's direction and sought to reconstitute Elijah Muhammad's faith. Eventually he became not only Elijah's ideological heir but also the tenant of his castle -- Farrakhan now lives in his ornate, fortress- like home where, as in Elijah's day, Nation of Islam guards are on constant patrol outside...
...with the Nation of Islam's leader. We print it to give Farrakhan ample opportunity to make his argument and let readers judge him for themselves. We dispatched correspondents to mosques, college campuses and inner-city neighborhoods to examine the appeal that both the Nation of Islam and more orthodox forms of Islam hold for many blacks. We commissioned a poll of black public opinion by Yankelovich Partners to , determine precisely how much support Farrakhan really has among African Americans. And we invited six distinguished writers and thinkers -- three who are Jewish, three who are black -- to explore the thorny...
They didn't have to; they well knew. Air strikes against the Serbs could severely strain relations between the NATO powers and Russia, many of whose citizens empathize with the Serbs as fellow Slavs and Orthodox Christians. If the ultimatum had to be voted on in the U.N. Security Council, Boris Yeltsin's government would almost certainly veto it, if only to respond to public anger fanned by nationalists like Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who was in full cry last week. NATO finessed that by insisting that its ultimatum is justified under previous Security Council resolutions. U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros- Ghali...
...even the most world-weary Muscovites find diversion in the antics of their politicians. They are particularly bemused by the squabble about where the new parliament is supposed to meet. With a Russian Orthodox bishop in attendance to offer his blessings and perhaps exorcise the ghosts of the past, Chernomyrdin hastily occupied a renovated office suite last week at the White House, the former parliament building damaged last October when armed forces loyal to Yeltsin put down a revolt of hard-line deputies. The move was intended to forestall any claims on the space by the new Federal Assembly, whose...