Word: islam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sudan's anti-Christian campaign is a product of history and geography, as well as of Islam's militant spread across modern Africa. The 8,000,000 Sudanese of the sandy north are Arabic and Nubian in origin, and Moslem to a man. Most of the 4,000,000 inhabitants of the swampy and forest-covered south are black Africans, who know that in the days before British rule Arab traders sold their ancestors into slavery and have long sought some measure of local autonomy from Dictator Ibrahim Abboud's all-Moslem government. Since Independence...
...Sudanese Ministry of Information insists that the policy of the government "has always been, and shall always be, freedom of worship for all citizens without discrimination." Exiled missionaries insist that Christians are being forcibly converted to Islam, and last week heard that the Cathedral of Juba, on the White Nile, had been converted into a mosque...
...council's most impressive productions is a complete recording of the Koran on 44 disks, by the dean of Islam's Koran readers, Sheik Mahmoud el Hosaris. To make the Koran's 7th century message apply to modern problems, the council's 180 technical advisers are now turning out fresh commentaries on obscure phrases of the Prophet. They operate a fulltime answering service to resolve such religious scruples of the devout as whether a Moslem can accept a blood transfusion from a non-Moslem, and when abortion is lawful...
...class and rose from subaltern to major in four years. Nasser chose Eweida to organize Egypt's 2,000,000-strong Youth Corps; he did so well that Nasser four years ago gave him the larger chore of setting up an organization to propagate Islam...
Eweida insists that "the council's mission is purely religious-it has nothing to do with politics." Nonetheless, the council is violently opposed to Islamic organizations associated with other Moslem leaders, such as the mission-minded Ahmadiyya Movement of Pakistan or the puritanical Wahhabi sect of Saudi Arabia. To Eweida, it is kismet that Islam should grow, and that Egypt should become the center of Islamic culture. Nasser thinks...