Word: prophetic
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...Word: Political Discourse in Iraq, describes Saddam’s rule as a horrible regime that uses terror to cow and coerce the Iraqi people into messianic idolatry of His Excellency. In recent years, despite the broad pauperization and Iraqi civilians, Saddam is increasingly compared with the Prophet Mohammed. Bengio further describes Saddam’s use of the media, artists and poets as propaganda peddlers who conform history and truth to Saddam’s whim...
According to the Boston Globe, Koolhaas dubbed his plan “the Moses project” in homage to both the legendarily powerful urban planner Robert D. Moses and the biblical prophet who parted the Red Sea and led the Israelites to the Promised Land...
...only a matter of time before one of the teams racing to produce the first human clone either succeeded or just decided to claim it had. Chemist Brigitte Boisselier, president of the biotech company Clonaid, is a member of the Order of Angels of the Raelian religious cult, whose prophet Rael says 4-ft.-tall green space aliens visited him 30 years ago in a French volcano and revealed that all of us are descended from the clones they planted here 25,000 years ago. With her announcement of a miracle baby named Eve and the group's subsequent claim...
Still, the film, which was funded partially by a number of Islamic foundations, tries too hard. When the Muslims in Medina murder 700 Jews, up pops a commentator to insist that Muhammad was not anti-Semitic. When the Prophet allows his followers to take up to four wives, the film stresses that he was, for his time, something of a feminist. When Muhammad leads his troops into battle, it is explained that he did so only because there was no alternative...
...other faiths and people of "the book." Just as the history of Christianity has not always been a testament to the lessons of the God of love, so is Islam's past--and present--speckled with intolerance and bloodshed. What the world needs is not a hagiography of the Prophet or an apologia for Islam but a clear sense that modern Muslims are prepared to engage in an honest debate on the way in which their faith has been perverted by those who kill thousands of innocents. --By Michael Elliott