Word: islam
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Into the seat of power moved the Imam's son, Seif el Islam el Badr, 35, a darkly handsome prince who has led Yemen a few steps out of isolation on a leftist course. Already Defense and Foreign Minister, Badr last week at his father's order became acting Prime Minister and Interior Minister as well. He also since 1955 has worn the title Crown Prince, a reward for saving his father from a revolt by his uncle Abdullah during one of the many and murderous family power struggles that are sprinkled through Yemen's history. Like...
...Said British Historian Arnold Toynbee: If Jew and non-Jew alike were to give up all feelings of ethnic "apartheid," then many gentiles would convert to Judaism. "Judaism presents Jewish monotheism in its original form and not in the derivative forms in which it is presented in Christianity and Islam," he argued. "If the abandonment of ethnic reservations were complete and genuine on both sides, the traditional caste barrier between Jews and non-Jews would be likely to be broken down by more and more frequent intermarriage . . . The positive gain would be that the great spiritual treasures of Judaism . . . would...
...education budget has gone up tenfold. Saud has donated at least ten of his 24 palaces for schools. At King Saud's Sons' Institute, inside the Naziriyah compound, children of slaves sit next to young princes. Risking the displeasure of the austere Wahabi sect of Islam, which believes that woman's place is in the harem and behind the veil, Tariki has put several thousand girls in school...
...most serious symptoms, which may well finish off the patient in the end, is the loss of moral order. Great world cultures of the past- e.g., China, India, Islam - were held together by ideals based on a spiritual unity. The Western world, says Dawson, "has become so deeply secularized that it no longer recognizes any common system of spiritual values, while its philosophers have tended to isolate the moral concept from its cultural context and have attempted to create an abstract subjective system of pure ethics. If this were all, we should be forced to conclude that modern Western society...
...friends have been the Imam's ene mies. Three weeks ago, a trusted bodyguard shot the old man down as he was visiting cronies in the Hodeida Hospital. Eight Italian surgeons were rushed from Rome, and the Imam's probable heir, ambitious Crown Prince Seif el Islam el Badr, 35, summoned all governors and deputy governors to confer with him in Hodeida. Since such meetings usually precede the election of a new Imam, many Yemenis were convinced that the Defend er of the Faith was dying. The prudent people of Yemen will believe it when it is official...