Word: ramadan
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...TARIQ RAMADAN Swiss Muslim scholar and visiting fellow at Oxford University
...began investigating al-Arian shortly after he came to U.S.F. in 1986 and started making speeches like one in 1988 calling for "death to Israel!" He fell under scrutiny in 1995, when Ramadan Abdullah Shallah, a Palestinian economist who had helped direct the World and Islam Studies Enterprise, a Muslim think tank co-founded by al-Arian at U.S.F., turned up in Syria as head of Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Al-Arian maintained that he hadn't known of Shallah's involvement in the terrorist group and kept building an image of himself as an "enlightened Islamist" who led interfaith projects...
...Harvard Crimson: Have you had any significant or moving anecdotes that you could share with us, while in contact with some of the non-American cultures during the making of the film? George Clooney: I remember sitting on the roof of a building in Casablanca, during Ramadan. A siren would go off and everyone would get out of their cars and face Mecca and would pray in the middle of the street. There were hundreds of people, as far as your eye could see. Anyone who thinks that they have the religious hierarchy over anyone else should be standing here...
Even before he became Vice President in 1991, Taha Yassin Ramadan was known as one of Saddam's top enforcers...
That was how it ended for Adel al-Zubaidi on a sunny afternoon in early November. The attorney defending Saddam's half-brother Barzan Ibrahim Hasan al-Tikriti and former Vice President Taha Yasin Ramadan was heading home from work with a colleague when two Opel sedans and two orange-and-white taxis boxed in his car on the busy main street of his neighborhood. Two men wearing jeans got out firing Russian-made PKC heavy machine guns, riddling the red Proton sedan with bullets, says al-Zubaidi's son-in-law, who arrived on the scene 10 minutes after...