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DIED. Ahmed Badawi, 53, Egyptian Defense Minister and armed forces commander in chief, who became a national hero after leading an assault division across the Suez Canal to storm the Bar-Lev line during the 1973 war with Israel; when his helicopter crashed during a routine inspection tour, killing 13 other senior Egyptian commanders and hence all but wiping out the country's military leadership; in Egypt's western desert...
...what extent was the student action-and the Ayatullah Khomeini's endorsement of it-in accordance with Islamic law? Experts differ. Zaki Badawi, Egyptian director of the Islamic Cultural Center in London, argues that "the demand for the return of the Shah to face trial in Iran is in agreement with Muslim law." Islam holds that "no one is above the law and law is supreme. If a crime is committed by a ruler, an emperor, he is as liable to punishment for it as the meanest and commonest of his subjects." As a precedent, one Cairo expert notes...
Islamic scholars are virtually unanimous in condemning the seizure of the hostages as contrary to the Shari'a (Islamic canon law). Says Badawi: "There is no basis in Islam for this. Islam does not justify the taking of hostages, and it also clearly states that one person cannot be punished for the crimes of another." Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, a devout Muslim, has denounced Khomeini as a "lunatic" and forthrightiy condemned the seizure of the hostages. "This is not Islam," he said. "Islam teaches love, tolerance and mercy." One of the ranking experts on Islamic law, at Cairo...
Mohamed Moustafa Badawi, lecturer on the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alexandria, opened the program with a short but informative discussion of the major problems facing contemporary Arabic literature...
...heard in April at The Hague, when the court meets for the first time with these Assembly-elected judges: Charles De Visscher (Belgium), J. Philadelpho de Barros e Azevedo (Brazil), Sir Arnold D. McNair (Britain), John E. Read (Canada), Hsu Mo (China), Alejandro Alvarez (Chile), Abdel Hamid Badawi Pasha (Egypt), J. Gustavo Guerrero (El Salvador), Jules Basdevant (France), Fabela Alfaro (Mexico), Helge Klaestad (Norway), Bohdan Winiarski (Poland), Sergei B. Krylov (Russia), Green H. Hackworth (U.S.), Milovan Zoricich (Yugoslavia...