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...presumably would escape death. After further investigation, however, Saudi authorities concluded that the murder had been the politically motivated act of a sane man. In fact, said Radio Riyadh, the prince had confessed to the assassination, explaining it as an effort to rid Saudi Arabia of the rule of Islam because it stood "in the way of the development of the country...
Outside the Cabinet building, where Faisal had spent so many long workdays dealing with affairs of state and receiving his subjects, white tents were set up to shelter the dignitaries who had come to attend the funeral. The rules of Islam's strict Wahhabi sect, to which King Faisal be longed, stipulate that a man's body should be buried as soon as possible after his death; Faisal's funeral, however, was delayed 36 hours in order to await the arrival of foreign delegations...
...protector of the Moslem shrines in Mecca and Medina, Faisal had a certain claim to spiritual leadership within Islam. But in an era when kings were being overthrown in Egypt, Iraq and Libya, Faisal's ambitions for political leadership in the Arab world were sharply challenged, most notably by Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, the secular prophet of a new kind of Arab nationalism. The two strong-minded leaders clashed directly only once before Nasser's death in 1970. After Yemen's Imam Badr was ousted in a Republican coup, Nasser sent in Egyptian forces to support the new regime...
...theology of the Nation of Islam is significantly different from that of orthodox Islam, which has never been sure whether to recognize Muhammad's U.S. variant. Its black-supremacy views conflict with Islam's racial tolerance. Islam's fundamental tenet is that there is no god but Allah and Mohammed was his Messenger; the Black Muslims believe that Fard was Allah incarnate and that Elijah Muhammad was his Messenger. The Black Muslims deride the orthodox Muslims as "spooky believing" for holding that Allah is a spirit. To them, Allah is the Supreme Black Man among a race...
...that he promoted hatred toward whites. If not hatred, it was contempt: whites were "the human beast-the serpent, the dragon, the devil and Satan." The white race, he taught, had been bred 6,000 years ago by a black scientist. In an insanely logical moment, the Nation of Islam once invited American Nazi George Lincoln Rockwell to a meeting and heard him laud Elijah Muhammad as the "Adolf Hitler of the black...