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...U.S.S.R. belong to more than 100 ethnic groups and claim descent from Varangians, Turks, Mongols and countless Eurasian tribes. Their government preaches to them, in Russian, about the supreme wisdom of a 19th century German atheist. They, however, speak in more than 100 tongues and worship Jehovah, God, Buddha, Allah, or the animist spirits of nomadic hunters in the far north...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside The U.S.S.R.: A Fortress State in Transition | 6/23/1980 | See Source »

...helicopters, the machinery goes unused because most of the tribesmen do not have the training to operate anything more sophisticated than a bolt-action rifle. Nonetheless, the righteous tenacity of a thousand blood feuds persists. "I am just a mountain man who acts according to circumstances," says Janeb Gul. "Allah will help us because ours is a just fight. Our weapon is our faith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Our Weapon Is Our Faith | 1/28/1980 | See Source »

Whenever they kindle a fire for war, Allah extinguishes it. And they strive to create disorder in the earth, and Allah loves not those who create disorder.-The Koran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Islam Against the West? | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Western science and technology have wounded the deep pride of Islam. The success of the unvirtuous, the infidel unfavored of Allah, is psychologically confusing. "Seen through Muslim eyes," writes Berkeley Historian Peter Brown, "the emergence of [the West] as the temporary master of the world remains an anomaly in the natural unfolding of the course of history." Muslims have recoiled from modernization in exact proportion to the force of its temptation for them. They have been attracted by secular materialism, have tried it in the guise of both capitalism and Marxism, but they have often been disappointed by it, have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Islam Against the West? | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Jimmy Carter should get his omnipotent and benevolent God to talk some sense into the Ayatullah Khomeini's omnipotent and benevolent Allah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Iran's Revenge | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

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