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When Mohammed died, his first caliph, Abu Bakr, told the Prophet's mourning followers: "If you worship Mohammed, Mohammed has died. But if you worship Allah, he is alive and never will die." Throughout the Middle East, a variation of that aphorism was broadcast over Arab radios last week: "If you worship Gamal, Gamal is dead. But if you worship the ideas of Gamal Abdel Nasser, they are alive and will never die." Nasser had many ideas, not all of them worth preserving. The future of the Middle East may thus depend on which the Arab world jettisons and which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Nasser's Legacy: Hope and instability | 10/12/1970 | See Source »

...what is one to make of such a personage as the prophet. W. D. Fard? According to Black Muslim dogma, Fard came from Allah to Elijah Muhammad in Detroit in the year 1931. He soon mysteriously disappeared, but only after he had explained that the white race was a cruel joke played on the black world by a satanic black named Mr. Yacub. After generations of breeding blacks for light skin on the Island of Patmos. Yacub succeeded in creating the fiendish white race, which was eventually turned loose in the desolate wastes of prehistoric Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Malcolm X: History as Hope | 2/23/1970 | See Source »

...Historic Preservation, organized a one-day paint-in by a group of Washington high school art students. The result was a half-mile mural in which green trees, pink pigs, pilgrims, bare-breasted Indian maidens and parades mingle with a modicum of social sentiment. "Stop the war-Jesus and Allah could save," reads a message in the middle of some blazing red, white and blue stripes. Nixon did not object; Tricia was even deputized to walk down on the day of the paint-in and add a few dabs herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Patrons: Not All That Square | 6/20/1969 | See Source »

Undulating across the stage, eight shapely young ballerinas mimicked the sensuous rhythms of a belly dance. Portraying Bedouin tribesmen, a chorus of 150 men sang a lusty hymn to Allah. At sunrise, the wailing voice of the muezzin filled the concert hall, summoning the faithful to prayer. "O lonely night, last forever," crooned a tenor, looking across the moonlit sands. "You've made me learn to live and love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Festivals: Romantic Revival | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

...business practices that might violate the precepts of the Koran. At the heart of such caution is a conviction that one of a Moslem's basic duties in life is not to compete with his fellow man but to prepare for his entry into heaven by strictly obeying Allah's will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Moslems: Determining Allah's Will | 5/9/1969 | See Source »

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