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...around 70?and frail, relying on a walking stick. But the imam's voice is strong, and the some 50 men, women and boys crammed into a dingy room sit enraptured as he talks for two hours, waving his hands for emphasis and making eye contact with his listeners. The subject matter is familiar: verses of the Koran spliced with denunciations of the war the U.S. and its allies are waging against Islam; the suffering of Muslims worldwide; the sacred duty to struggle against those who would deny Muslims the chance to worship in peace. The preacher's voice...
According to my aunt, this particular palace had become a museum. The leaders of the 1979 Islamic revolution had never lived there. Imam Khomeini, who led the revolution, had lived in a small, mud-brick house after...
...It’s funny that the Americans have chosen to station themselves in the old presidential palaces of Sadaam Hussain,” I remarked, “while Imam Khomeini chose not to live comfortably in any of the shah’s extravagant palaces...
...average American has a dramatically different image of Imam Khomeini and the ideologues of the Islamic revolution. The revolution is perceived as a victory of religious extremists over Western ideas, embodied by the very Western shah. Their values are considered dramatically different from American values; their revolution the inevitable historical antithesis of the American...
...made room for four women on its board after they protested the design of a new mosque that would have given women inadequate space in which to pray. Instead, women got access to the main hall when the new mosque opened in July. In Dearborn, Mich., earlier this year, Imam Mohammed Mardini welcomed Christian women who weren't covering their hair, over the protests of men who wanted them barred. In Sacramento, Calif., not long ago, mosque leaders wrote their bylaws with clauses guaranteeing tolerance and gender equity. In New York City an emagazine, Muslim WakeUp!, organizes monthly gatherings...