Word: taha
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...Almost immediately they were thrown into a period of activism,” says Taha B.H. Abdul-Basser, a graduate student adviser to HIS. “They tried to rectify the information gap and educate society about Muslims...
...ties with the U.S. Yet some within the reform camp, notably the hard-core left-wing militants who helped establish Hizballah, are standing their anti-American ground. Even among right-wing clerics there is disagreement: fundamentalists decry American hypocrisy and arrogance, but pragmatists see the wisdom of temperance. As Taha Hashemi, editor of the daily Entekhab and one of Khamenei's closest advisers, observed just days before Khamenei's rebuff to the U.S.: "Opportunities that come up like this should be used to create a common understanding...
...carnage of the Middle East, some clerics are providing young men with religious rationales for slaughter. But they are the anomaly in the global embrace of the faith. The leaders of Islamic America describe such reasoning as worse than a minority opinion--in fact, a kind of perversion. Sheik Taha Jabir Alalwani, president of the Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences, has this to say of the Twin Tower terrorists: "If they claim they are Muslim, I would say they...
...Iranian-Americans with high-level contacts in both Washington and Tehran made frantic calls to Iranian powerbrokers. "Clarify Iran's position or risk getting bombed," one told former Speaker of Parliament Ali Akbar Nateq-Nouri. "We should use this opportunity to create a common understanding," said Taha Hashemi, an adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei. "All this bitterness can yield a blessing...