Word: prophetic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Monday, the Pakistani government of Pervez Musharraf, worried about the Pakistan people’s reaction to blasphemous images of the Prophet Muhammed, asked the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to cut off the country’s access to YouTube. Unfortunately, as the telecommunications companies carried out the government order, technical mistakes deprived would-be YouTube users in various countries access to the site. Viewers bemoaned the loss of their favorite form of procrastination, but they should have been lamenting Pakistan’s far more important loss—that of free speech. The right to free speech...
...refuses to deal with cases where a husband abuses his wife but expects her to respond to his sexual whims by claiming that Islam requires her obedience. "I ask patients like that to leave and never come back, because they are an insult to Islam and the Prophet," she says...
...prayer, pilgrimage to Mecca, tithing and fasting in the month of Ramadan. But the laws governing everyday affairs, such as crime and punishment, marriage, economics and inheritance, were open to change. "Iqbal maintained that those Koranic punishments - cutting off hands, stoning - were meant for the community from which the Prophet descended," says son Javid. "In the modern era these laws were not meant to be strictly enforced." In short, Iqbal sought an Islamic reformation through the establishment of a Muslim state. The idea was repugnant to conservative Muslims, literalists who held that the Prophet's laws could not be changed...
...This isn't a religious revolution," says retired Brigadier Shaukat Qadir, who, like many other analysts, says most Pakistanis don't really understand what Shari'a is. "It is a good-sounding word because it comes from the Prophet. It's a safe word. But what people want really is the rule of law. Equality. That there be no discrimination between a brigadier and a laborer when it comes to law. That does not exist right now in Pakistan...
...Approved courses include Literature and Arts 51: “Virgil,” taught by classics professor Richard F. Thomas; a modified version of Humanities 18: “For the Love of God and His Prophet,” taught by Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations professor Ali S. Asani; Foreign Cultures 70: “Islam,” also taught by Asani; and a new course called “Poetry Without Borders,” to be taught by Slavic Languages and Literatures professor Stephanie Sandler...