Word: worshiped
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...concept is imported from Argentina, where the show was an instant hit. BOTTOM LINES "They are treating Switzerland like an alpine Iraq." Jean-Claude Juncker, Luxembourg's Prime Minister, on E.U. states threatening to sanction Switzerland for refusing to share information about E.U. citizens' bank accounts "We worship at the feet of J.K. Rowling." Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com CEO, on how the Harry Potter books helped the company make its first profit in a year of dot.com disaster "I feel very peculiar asking customers to give me love." Takashi Uchida, shop owner in Yamato, Japan, on problems with his town...
...Hatred is a powerful motivator. Until the clerics made common cause against America, the six hard-line party leaders were rivals. They stormed each other's mosques and split hairs over ideological disputes dating back to Islam's early days. Their differences were stark: some worship at the tombs of local Sufi saints; others dismiss that practice as blasphemy. Most of the parties want their women veiled from head to toe, although more liberal groups argue that it ought to be the woman's choice. The personalities of the parties' leaders have also clashed. Qazi Hussain Ahmed from the Jamaat...
...entire Koran is the word of God," says Metin K??k, director of the Berlin center. "But we differentiate between Muhammad's inspired verse and the rules he came up with later on, when he was an administrator and warrior." That means no mosques, no five daily prayers, no separate worship for men and women, and no facing Mecca. Instead, Alevis pray in a circle, facing each other. In place of Islamic law, they have a 40-step process for achieving the mystical sense of oneness preached by Muhammad in the Koran's early verses. To create a single curriculum...
...Islam concluded that God chooses his people on grounds of commitment rather than lineage, meaning that Abraham's only true followers are true believers--i.e., Muslims. Moreover, if Allah ever had a pact with the Jews as a race, they backslid out of it in episodes such as the worship of the golden calf in the Torah's book of Exodus. Indeed, the Koran advises Muslims proselytized by either Jews or Christians to answer, "Nay... (we follow) the religion of Abraham...
...paradoxes of Surrealism lay in the fact that a movement dedicated to liberation could be so doctrinaire. Not surprisingly, some of its most forceful personalities eventually clashed with Breton. Joan Miró's worship of "hallucination," for example, and his use of biomorphic forms like those in Figures with Stars, seemed right out of the Breton handbook. But in 1933 Miró declared: "I am always concerned with the composition of a painting, not just the associations - that is what [now] separates me from the Surrealists." Magritte himself ditched the Paris circle after Breton, at a gathering of the fraternity...