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...Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" had more precious little details than you could shake a stick at--unless, of course, you were the conducter! The preceding is a perfect example of the level of humor in currency among the musical-going crowd. Here's another: as a slave in Egypt--would that he really were--Donny Osmond wears a toga-esque outfit, which Pharoah Elvis refers to as "Fruit of the Tomb...
Last year, he assigned a book published by the Nation of Islam. That book maintains that Jews had a major part in the African slave trade...
...have before him. But Schami boasts an advantage that Nerval or Flaubert could never attain: he is an Arab. He understands what makes Damascenes tick, and embues his account with a wealth of genuine detail that French Orientalists could only dream of (when they weren't dreaming about those slave-girls they bought in Cairo). At the same time, he knows his surroundings well enough to misrepresent them subtly: Damascus appears slightly trated up for the Western reader, slightly more quaint and foreign than it actually is. A sly native salesmanship pervades the book, turning everyday Syrian banalities into...
...Abdul Muhammad, endorses. Some critics thought Muhammad was a stalking-horse for Farrakhan himself. TIME's Monroe, who has known Farrakhan for a decade, believes his professed anger at Muhammad was genuine. But Farrakhan wouldn't back down from his argument that Jews must acknowledge a historical role as slave traders, slave owners and ghetto employers and landlords. Far from their being another oppressed group, he says, when it comes to black America, Jews were oppressors. This leaves Jews, who played a major role in the black civil rights movement, feeling betrayed. And as a matter of logic, points...
...idea of returning to Islam as the ancestral religion of black Americans dates at least to the early years of this century. Many blacks rejected Christianity as a slave religion -- although many, many more continue to practice it today -- and were looking for ethnic heritage and pride. Although the early days of the Nation of Islam are murky, the official version is that Wallace D. Fard founded it in Detroit in 1930, allegedly upon arrival from Mecca. He disappeared a few years later and was replaced by Elijah Poole, renamed Elijah Muhammad, who reigned until 1975 over a black nationalist...