Word: islamicizing
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That the Pope should forgive is hardly surprising. That his session with his would-be murderer should be broadcast is a tribute to his showmanship. But it takes two for a meeting. How was an Islamic fanatic turned into a well-behaved young man eager to shake hands with his...
Shortly afterward, an anonymous caller telephoned the French news agency Agence France-Presse and said that the assassination of Kerr had been carried out by members of the Islamic Jihad, the same Iranian-backed Shi'ite Muslim group that is believed to have bombed the U.S. and French military...
Seriously speaking. Mr. Brannaman does seem to understand one point: the uselessness of war and violent death. No group of people ever has or ever will want war. It is the leaders of nations who cause wars. The Israeli people do not hate the citizens of the Arab and Moslems...
Sudanese President Gaafar Nimeiri, 54, launched the new era by ceremoniously pouring a can of beer into the Nile. Five million dollars' worth of liquor followed, as thousands watched from the riverbank, chanting, "Wise decision, Gaafar." Thus did Sudan pass under Islamic law this fall. At a stroke, alcohol...
The return to Islamic purity was a two-edged sword for Nimeiri. It won him widespread popularity among Sudan's Arab Muslim majority, but it pushed his divided, impoverished nation of 22 million a step closer to civil war. Sudan's largely black, non-Muslim minorities, who inhabit...