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...Jordan border. Colonel Issachar Shadmi told Major Shmuel Malinki of the border police that this order was to be strictly enforced, that any villager found abroad after the curfew hour was to be shot. In midafternoon Major Malinki passed the order along to his company commanders, adding, "May Allah have mercy on their souls." On the stroke of 5, Lieut. Gabriel Dehan deployed his constables in three groups around the Arab village of Kfar Kassim. In the next hours his cops shot and killed 43 men, women and children as they cycled and trudged homeward, unaware of the sudden curfew...
...would divorce her. To the second-wife plan, Soraya reportedly gave an "angry and disgusted" no. If the second wife bore a son, she would inevitably become "the" Queen, and Soraya's standing would be sharply downgraded. As for divorce, Soraya shrugged resignedly: "Insh' Allah!" (As God wills...
...said, now becomes "the basis of Arab union." "Mabrouk Gamal-Congratulations, Gamal," shrieked the schoolkids. Rockets burst overhead, parachuting small Egyptian and Syrian flags down on their heads. Egypt's top singer, Mohamed Abdel Wahab, led them in chanting the newly composed anthem of the Arab union: "O Allah, We Won by Your Will...
...themselves and were sometimes ritually trampled under horses' hoofs. In contarst, the Mevlevi dervishes were no holy-rolling orgiasts. With serenity and calm, dressed in tall, conical hats and flowing black robes, they spun round and round, some fast, some slow, rapt in concentration, some of them murmuring "Allah, Allah" over and over again, whirling themselves into ecstasy. The pattern of their dance was said to represent outwardly the movements of the planets and inwardly the movement of the soul...
...charge of women, because Allah hath made the one of them to excel the other...