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London (and all Christendom) is newly aware of Islam. The shouts of Teheran mobs, the shot that killed King Abdullah, echo years, the world's chancelleries. As it has for 1,300 years, the riddle of Islam still confronts the West. It stands there, some 300 million strong, not giving an inch from Casablanca to the Sulu...
...power is tipped. To the West, opportunity beckons from one side of Islam - its God, its acceptance of the moral code, its protection of private property. To the Kremlin, opportunity beckons from another side of Islam - its poverty and corruption, its long acceptance of tyranny, its ingrained hatred of Christendom...
...much contact with the world of Greek thought; there was no St. Paul among them. But many of the converts in Syria and North Africa were thoroughly Hellenized. At first, Islam allowed the Hellenists to apply reason to problems of law and ethics. Islam, - indeed, especially renewed with Aristotle - Christendom's and out contact of with this Greek renewal philosophy flowed Aquinas' philosophy and, later, the Renaissance. From the first the Ulema had been suspicious of all legal and ethical judgments based upon reason. The learned doctors held that the Koran and the sayings of the Prophet were...
Last year the privilege was withdrawn in Mexico, in response to a Vatican recommendation that Friday abstinence be made uniform throughout Christendom as soon as practicable. The dioceses of Gallup and El Paso will also cancel the exemption in September. But in Spain itself the dispensation will probably remain in effect, Vatican sources said, particularly in view of the country's difficult food situation...
...Ironically, the town which has now become one of the shrines of Roman Catholic Christendom bears the name of Mohamed's daughter...