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...Ismael: "Female circumcision ranks high in the list of preventable health hazards and affects almost 100 per cent of the female population of Somalia, Sudan and Djibouti, and to a lesser extent the females of Southern Egypt, Chad, Nigeria, Senegal, Kenya, Ethiopia and Mail, just to name a few." Islam is the religion of Somalia and most of the other countries concerned...
...demand which, in any case, the experts say only required a pledge of future non-intervention, not a full apology. Intrigued, the State Department called together the four experts to analyze the speech and "to try to get an understanding of the meaning, theory and purpose of repentance in Islam," according to Steve Grummon of the department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research...
...education high priority. But a higher standard of living and better education could lead to demands for greater political participation; though the leadership remains accessible through the majlis, the traditional consultation process between ruler and ruled, such consensus politics may not suffice for much longer. The rise of fundamentalist Islam as a political movement in Iran is not lost on the sheiks and emirs. At least two states-Kuwait and Bahrain-plan to revive consultative assemblies soon, while Saudi Arabia is in the process of forming a new assembly that will hold its first elections in the next year...
...Jihad for Jerusalem" [Aug. 25]: Islam has Mecca and Medina; Christianity has Rome and Istanbul. Why is it such an injustice for the Jewish people to declare Jerusalem, which has been their religious center for more than 3,000 years, their capital...
...Sadat back to the Arab fold, and have let it be known that he might gain some badly needed oil money to shore up Egypt's economy. Explained Chedli Klibi, the Tunisian secretary-general of the Arab League, in an interview with TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott: "In Islam we have a saying that if you try and fail-if you recognize your mistake-you will still find your reward. Sadat should recognize the truth and say, 'I've tried and failed.' By doing that he would show the world that he gave Israel a full...