Word: hanafi
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...submit that the wave of terrorism, like that of the Hanafi gunmen in Washington [March 21], will stop only when terrorists are met by the one thing they well understand: armed force. Only when the price becomes too high to pay will people like the Hanafi leader stop the senseless slaughter of innocents...
...caused not by any of the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations' forthright foreign policy remarks. Rather it was Young's observation at a press conference in Sacramento, Calif., that he wished the reporting of spectacular violence could be regulated. Distressed by the overheated coverage of the Hanafi Muslims' siege in Washington, D.C., Young suggested that the Supreme Court might "clarify" the Constitution's First Amendment to inhibit newspapers and television from "creating a climate of violence." Although he later backed away from the idea and admitted that he was "reacting rather emotionally," Young appeared...
...stern critic of the coverage of the Hanafi siege was George Gerbner, dean of Philadelphia's Annenberg School of Communications. Charging that the coverage was "an act of entertainment" that served primarily to boost ratings or sales of papers rather than further the public interest, he also noted that "the media cooperated with the terrorists and in so doing made their gesture more effective. It became a media event. Cameramen began covering other cameramen covering the story...
...grounds of mental instability. While working as a jazz drummer in New York City, he switched from Roman Catholicism to the Nation of Islam and rose to a trusted position before he broke with the Black Muslims in 1958. In the mid-1960s he formed his own group, the Hanafi. In 1968, he was arrested for trying to extort money from a bank, but charges were dismissed after he was found to be mentally disturbed. In 1972 he attacked the Black Muslims in an open letter, an act that is thought to have led to the execution of his family...
...gunmen were nervous when they heard sounds they couldn't identify. They had a telescope they used to watch the police. The General [Hanafi Leader Khaalis] made a speech about his dead babies and how the Jews didn't care about his babies or South African babies. He said he wasn't afraid to kill us and he wasn't afraid to die. He was on the phone a lot. He came back once and said, 'I've just talked to the whole world-Sweden, London and Europe. But we're going...