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Following a series of bitter verbal attacks by Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi, Saudi Arabia abruptly severed diplomatic relations with Tripoli. Gaddafi had charged the Saudis with "desecrating" Islam's sacred shrines in Mecca by allowing U.S. AW ACS surveillance planes to fly protective reconnaissance missions over the country's oilfields. The radical Libyan leader also called for a pan-Islamic jihad, or holy war, to "liberate the house of God in Mecca" - in effect, an incitement to overthrow the Saudi government. Saudi Arabia's normally placid King Khalid angrily denounced Gaddafi as "a Muslim outcast who deserves...
...passenger, an elderly man pressing an attaché case against his breast: "It is a good thing God does not grant taxi drivers' wishes." The shortage of fuel has made life uncomfortable for Tehran's 7 million people, but in the fervor of the war between "Islam and paganism," there are few complaints. An Iranian journalist sent the following report to TIME...
...carry Soviet and East bloc military supplies from the Jordanian port of Aqaba; its harbor was crowded with freighters waiting to unload. Western diplomats speculated that the Saudis, Jordanians and Iraqis had formed a new conservative Arab alliance that was aimed at checking the Iranian brand of revolutionary Islam in the area...
...other Muslim country was willing to supply transportation for the Israeli faithful, who until 1978 were not allowed to make the hajj because they were citizens of the Jewish state. "The Iranians want to give the impression that they are the patrons of all Islam," said Gur-Arieh. Indeed, the pilgrims expressed profound gratitude to the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini for his religious diplomacy, despite the fact that he is a leader of the Shi'ite branch of Islam while the Israeli Arabs are rival Sunnis. "Even if they cut my throat," said one pilgrim, "I'm for Khomeini...
...they were possibly introduced by men for the subjugation of women and simply remained in the culture for centuries, unchanged. Mr. Hakansson has neither the intellectual prowess nor academic training to elaborate on the possible origins and rationale for such patterns. He even erroneously associated this barbaric practice with Islam. Also, his outdated and cruelly staged German-made films (the German filmmakers seem to have a preoccupation with this sort of thing) have long been considered unfit for presentation at most respectable institutions...