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...cause a war with both Spain and Algeria, Hassan had asked for 350,000 volunteers to cross the frontier, armed only with the Koran. By the end of the week, 700,000, including 70,000 women, had signed up for what Moroccan newspapers had dubbed "the Green March" (after Islam's traditional color). Doctors were still giving physical examinations to decide who was up to the arduous 15-day, 60-mile trek across a land as desolate as the moon, where temperatures at this time of year can climb as high as 113° at midday and fall...
Whatever it has borrowed from Hinduism, TM does owe something to religious tradition, and all major religions?Christianity, Judaism and Islam, as well as the Eastern faiths?at one time or another have included both meditation and the repetition of a mantra-like word. "Clasp this word tightly in your heart so that it never leaves no matter what may happen," advised a 14th century Christian treatise, The Cloud of Unknowing. "This word shall be your shield and your spear...
...word Islam means submission−to the will, it is implied, of Allah. No religion was more appropriately named. At the height of its conquests in the 8th century A.D., the empire of Islam stretched from the Atlantic beaches of Portugal to the western fringe of China. It encompassed half the known world. This Moslem superstate was the largest religious and political bloc mankind had seen since the Augustan empire, and it had all been consolidated in a little more than 100 years after the death of the prophet Mohammed...
...thing everyone "knows" about Islam is that it prohibited artists from painting the human figure. In fact, this was not wholly true. The Koran had nothing to say on the matter. Prophetic tradition banished figures from the walls of mosques, for fear of idolatry; but there was no rule against secular figure painting. Therefore, the decoration of all the great mosques of Islam was nonfigurative, but there was nothing heretical about the secular miniatures−of astrological images, courtly scenes or scientific inventions−represented in this show. Arab culture was pragmatic. Almost everything the Italian Renaissance knew of medicine...
Since its birth during the Depression, the Nation of Islam, better known as the Black Muslims, has preached that whites were "devils" and "human beasts." Not any longer: from now on whites will be considered fully human...