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...terror. At the ill-equipped local relief camp, 26-year-old Ayesha Begum plaintively told of how she had spent two days searching for the bodies of her husband and two children. She had not found any of them. "Why," asked the widow, fighting back tears, "why is Allah so unkind as to keep me alive?" Her question, like her prayer, was unanswered...
...will be doing damage to the study of all writing." Indeed, noted some Cairenes, the rulers were too strict in administering the laws of Islam. "A storm is brewing that augurs disaster," warned a celebrated scribe named Yusuf Idris. But do not despair. As the book of tales declares, Allah "alone can distinguish between the true and the false...
...provided guards for Jackson. At a Nation of Islam rally a little over a month ago, Farrakhan touched off a brouhaha by threatening Jackson critics, especially Jews. "If you harm this brother," he vowed, with Jackson a few feet away, "I warn you in the name of Allah this will be the last one you harm...
...problems with the Jewish community grew when Louis Farrakhan, head of the Nation of Islam, issued an ultimatum to Jewish leaders last week. Referring to Jackson, who was appearing with him at a Chicago rally, Farrakhan declared: "If you harm this brother, I warn you in the name of Allah this will be the last one you harm. Leave this servant of God alone." Founded in 1930, the radical organization boasted a following of 500,000 in the 1960s but has dwindled to fewer than 100,000. Lately it has moderated its earlier antiwhite views...
...February 25: Jackson flies to Chicago to attend a Nation of Islam meeting. Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan, referring to the "hymie" incident, warns Jackson's opponents. "If you harm this brother, I warn you in the name of Allah, this will be the last one you harm...