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...definitely get prominent play in the next Koran Allah commissions...
Said one exhausted croupier when it was all over: "Praise Allah, they didn't stay for a thousand and one nights...
...wrinkled old Tuareg looked out across the windblown desert surrounding the squalid refugee camp near the Niger capital of Niamey, where he and 5,000 others now live. "This year," he said it was the animals that died. Most of us managed to survive. But next year, unless Allah is most merciful, it will be our turn...
Sadly, there is very little likelihood that Allah will be any more merciful next year than he has been throughout 1973. Mohammed Ibrahim may be alive, but starvation and disease on the three-month trek from drought-ravaged Mali to Niger cost him all his cattle and camels and a third of his family. Now he is destitute, living in a stark hut made oi hides The Niger Red Cross manages to provide him with 150 grams of food per day, which, according to U.N. officials, can only sustain life for a short time...
Still, the Islamic view of the world in a sense pitches it into an endless struggle against the rest of mankind. Islam sees itself as a universal religion, with a formula for order and justice that Allah intends the entire world eventually to accept. That obviously clashes with the ancient vision of the Arabs' cousins in Israel, who have a different covenant with God. Such spiritual implications may not have started the latest Middle East war, but they certainly nourish the hostilities, making them more difficult to stop-and easier to start again...