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...this comes as a shock to Nagla's father, Hamza Sayed Eid, who told police he had never heard of CNN and claimed that he thought he was participating in a documentary on Islam. He also finds the uproar bewildering. As a Muslim, he believes he acted properly...
Such notions stirred not only predictable opposition from the Vatican but also an uproar in the Islamic world, where abortion is generally forbidden. Belatedly, conference supporters tried to fend off a Muslim boycott. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak called his old friend King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, who was meeting with the Council of Ulama, his nation's highest body of religious authorities. But Mubarak's effort was futile. On the following day, the council condemned the Cairo conference as a "ferocious assault on Islamic society" and forbade Muslims from attending. Sudan, Lebanon and Iraq then joined Saudi Arabia in announcing...
...members of Congress, led by Representative Robert Dornan, a California Republican, has sent NIH director Dr. Harold Varmus a letter of protest. "It's Frankensteinesque," Dornan says. "What they are doing is embryo destruction, and there's no way that they can adjust that to suit me." The uproar could be louder than the denunciations last year of the two George Washington University doctors who announced that they had split a human embryo in a process called cloning...
This realization came too late to Nussbaum, who brought to Washington the truculent manner of a big-city courtroom litigator and the political instincts of a country parson. His involvement in several notable White House debacles, including the travel-office uproar, the extended search for an Attorney General and the choice of an easily targeted Lani Guinier for a top Justice Department post, earned him the reputation of a Beltway naif and worse. Until last week the most serious charges against him involved his actions after the apparent suicide last year of White House lawyer Vincent Foster, when Nussbaum interfered...
...Amid the uproar, I participated in a public-radio panel discussion of these issues. One of the panelists, Rabbi David Saperstein, director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, argued that the media spend too much time on black-Jewish relations, that TIME should have talked more about the offenses in Muhammad's speech to Roman Catholics, women, gays and others. I agreed with him about the second half of that statement. But it seems to me that there could be no more significant conflict than the one between Jewish and black people since the questions it raises...