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According to Islamic principles, there is no superiority of whites over blacks.
Islamic culture has given us majestic arches and soaring spires; timeless poetry and cherished music; elegant calligraphy and places of peaceful contemplation.
Tom has never visited an Islamic country.
The pre-Islamic Arabs were nomads.
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Our aim: independence and restoration of the Algerian state, in accordance with Islamic principles and the respect of basic liberties, regardless of race or religion.
Islamic scholars knew that two centuries before Europeans.
Hector, I ordered three Islamic 13th-century, perforated pottery bowls and six beakers.
It was the golden age of science in the Islamic world.
Christian and Jewish scholars were honored guests at the research institutes of Baghdad, Cairo, and other Islamic capitols.
The reawakening to science that took place in Europe, hundreds of years later, was kindled by a flame that had been long tended by Islamic scholars and scientists.
Islamic law Alas, yes.
A magnificent example of 17th-century Islamic art.
Tormented by the knowledge that we violated their sacred Islamic law in their own country.
The Arabs love him because he's an expert in Islamic studies. He'd love the Arabs.
You said foreign women don't have to wear Islamic dress.
Now Iran is an Islamic state and that's a wonderful thing for many Iranians.
Now I work for an English language magazine for Islamic women.
It's not Islamic.
Our aim: independence and restoration of the Algerian stare, in accordance with Islamic principles and the respect of basic liberties, regardless of race or religion.
You mean. Islamic law Alas, yes.
And, uh, I been gettin' inquiries. from all over the entire Islamic world.
I run the Islamic subgroup.
A statue of the pre-Islamic God, Ahura Mazda.
One of the few to have been made after the Islamic conversion. I tell you what.
That. Pre-Islamic stuff you got in there!
It's Islamic.
Islamic Jihad have no sense of humor.
I've been working with other Islamic leaders trying to get the government to initiate it.
The celebration of Ramadan is at the centre of Islamic worship.
I was investigating the early pre-Islamic cultures.
He intends to make the Islamic Temple into a brothel.
He could turn a whore from Regatta into an Islamic virgin in one night.
Americans believe that you-- as an Islamic fundamentalist-- that you are a leader who contributed to the bombing of the U.S. Embassy.
Like the Islamic jihads we hear about. We get scared.
We assume that everyone who is into the Islamic religion is having a jihad every other bloody day.
There's a lot of very relaxed Islamic people, remember this.
The Oklahoma bombing, which everyone was sure was some Islamic thing.
Islamic leaders from around the world will be on the Temple Mount at noon.
This is Ibrahim Modi from the Islamic council.
Islamic extremist is to Islamic, as blank is to Christianity.
News and current affairs
At the same time, Bush's emphasis on a one-dimensional, militarized approach to global problems has fueled unrest and instability throughout the Islamic world, leading to increased terrorism in Turkey, North Africa, Saudi Arabia, and Southeast Asia.
In fact, the allegedly Islamic party had skilfully managed to negotiate with an unrelenting US, consult with the Turkish military and President, and share all information with the public and parliament.
This has given new strength to those who want Turkey to develop in another direction, towards a more Islamic society instead of a modern secular state.
US policy toward Pakistan is also dangerously shortsighted and reminiscent of the mistakes the US made in Iran prior to the 1979 Islamic revolution.
More recently, Meles coordinated efforts with Kenya to stage limited strikes against the al-Shabaab militia, which has waged an unrelenting war to turn Somalia into a fundamentalist Islamic theocracy.
Though Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamic revolution in 1979 disrupted Israel's old alliance with Iran, the two countries continued to conduct business with America's blessing.
The Iran-Contra affair of the 1980's, through which Israel supplied arms to the Islamic Republic in its war against Iraq is a case in point.
Israel and Iran, two non-Arab powers in a hostile Arab environment, shared fundamental interests that the Islamic revolution could not change.
In an Arab Middle East, Iran is the natural enemy; in an Islamic world, Iran is a potential leader.
Admittedly, violent Islamic fundamentalism has deeper roots in the fading promise of Arab nationalism.
America offered Iran on a silver platter strategic assets that Khomeini's revolution failed to acquire either in eight years of war against Saddam or in its abortive attempts to export the Islamic revolution throughout the region.
More importantly, it would deny Iran the ability to link popular Islamic and Arab causes with its own hegemonic ambitions.
However vague, the alliance of civilizations idea certainly cannot do more harm than war against Islamic extremism.
Today, Western universities are replete with distinguished Arab scholars in almost every field - the result of a brain drain that itself reflects the Islamic world's centuries of decline.
Fourth, laws are often arbitrarily applied, and sharia (Islamic law) frequently takes precedence over civil legislation, resulting in widespread impunity for crimes of violence against women.
They do not form a formidable presence, as in Nigeria, where some Muslim-majority states in the north have even implemented Sharia Law, making them more or less Islamic states.
Political Islam is an almost unknown phenomenon in this region (the Islamic Party of Kenya was never registered, for example), and Muslim organizations have mostly focused on welfare and rights.
Entire groups - Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades - and their leaders owe their power to their willingness to kill Israelis, which has become the ultimate measure of political virtue.
Niall Ferguson, the British historian, cites scholars who attribute Japan's imperial expansion after 1914 to a male youth bulge, and who link the rise of Islamist extremism to an Islamic youth bulge.
A good example is the international effort to confront the Islamic State's malign brutality in Iraq and Syria.
In 2006, the capture of Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, by the Islamic Courts raised the specter of a jihadist state.
But what may be most important, particularly in the Arab and Islamic communities, is to end any acceptance of terrorism.
And, sadly, things have become worse in the past 30 years, as Afghanistan's particular brand of Islam, combined with its legacy of dire poverty and war, compounds an already misogynist pre-Islamic tradition.
Islamic fundamentalists define jihad as a war of terror against the West and call for an Islamic caliphate from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Islamic fundamentalists reckon that what the rest of us regard as the liberalizing influence of technological progress and globalization is a brash re-run of Western colonialism.