Word: azhar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists who surround him. Last week Nasser made the sternest accusation one Arab can make about another: that Kassem was "soft" on the Jews, having refused (said Nasser) to join in a "decisive battle" against Israel last fall. And at Cairo's 1,000-year-old Al Azhar University, world center of Islamic learning, the rector or "sheik of Islam" urged the Iraqi faithful "to rise as one man" in defense against Communism's alien and atheist threat to the faith...
...Nasser has missed few tricks in conspiracy and demagoguery. Every sleazy political fugitive in Asia and Africa finds a place on his international bandwagon. He has so far converted Islam into his personal political instrument that the Nasser-appointed rector of Cairo's 1,000-year-old Al Azhar University, who is the nearest thing to a Moslem pope, seems to spend much of his time looking up Koranic passages to justify Nasser's policies. Nasser's hold on the Arab unity movement is further tightened by some 3,000 Egyptian schoolteachers who have flooded the Arab...
...Presidents went together to pray at Cairo's great Al Azhar mosque, where the imam, ending a sermon broadcast from the Atlantic Ocean to the Persian Gulf, told them, "Bless you both. March hand in hand and lead a united Arab nation to glory...
Last week, his military ordeal apparently ended, the new, post-invasion Nasser began to emerge. Haranguing a crowd of 20,000 at Cairo's ancient El Azhar Mosque, he sounded at times quite his old cocky self. Egypt, he said, finished the conflict "feeling stronger than we did when we started . . . Two great powers are with us: Russia, which threatened Britain and France, and America, which opposed their aggression...
...these defiant words, with their faded Churchillian echoes, Egypt's strongman prepared his people for guerrilla war-and did not add what his words implied: that his army and air force had been badly mauled. The same day, the chief priests of Cairo's famed El Azhar Mosque proclaimed a jihad, or holy war, against Britain and France...