Word: parallelling
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...remaining two large American Islamic blocs have roughly parallel histories. The majority of Arab and South Asian (Indian subcontinental) believers began arriving here in the late 1960s in response to changes in immigration law and home-country programs that subsidized study here. The students became professionals and put down roots. They were joined by relatives and by refugees from various international upheavals. Most, while thrilled at America's free speech and its economic prospects, were shocked by the materialism, secularism and free morality that they encountered. Settling into lives as doctors, engineers or grocery-store owners, they contended with malls...
...completely offensive, says Colby, because he didnt want them to do anything, because he wanted to rise up for a cause. He thinks hes Braveheart, hes obsessed with that movie. He loved this idea of a rebel rising up against oppression and protecting freedom. And thats a nice parallel because the movie Braveheart has very little to do with the actual historical record and likewise Zekes accusations have little to do with what was actually going...
...Jewish. I am American. For the past year, my identities have lived parallel lives. Every night I read the Israeli newspapers hoping that the names of my friends and families would not be listed as victims of the latest murderous act of terrorism. As a Jew, I knew that every bullet was aimed at me as well, that from the perspective of the murderers we were all targets...
Curran says the 91101 Fund’s philosophy—that the workings of local, everyday life are “inextricably linked to the global village”—runs parallel to the ideals of the Harvard Progressive Student Labor Movement and prompted him to contact them as well...
...can’t help but remember a time when those of this country used our own religious texts to justify the slaughter of Native Americans and the enslavement of blacks, just as the terrorists attacked our country in the name of Islam. While these instances might not be parallel, throughout the years, whether we knew about it or not, innocent people of other lands have died as a result of our country’s actions...