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...barrel, in 1971. These rates will continue rising 10% a year until 1975. In the process, Gaddafi has been amassing the largest gold and hard-currency reserves in the Arab world today ($2.9 billion). That radically altered both the life of his desert nation and his own position in Islam...
...year, at least partly because of Gaddafi's largesse, Uganda, Mali, Chad, Niger and Congo-Brazzaville have all broken diplomatic relations with Israel. Gaddafi even lent $3,000,000 to the U.S. Black Muslims, but he refused further loans because he decided that the group was not truly Islamic. He receives dozens of appeals for foreign aid each year, says Gaddafi, and he judges them all on two criteria: Will the loan help Islam, and will it hurt Israel...
Such gestures may seem absurd to foreigners, but Gaddafi justifies them as a return to Islamic principles of old. "When we do these things," he says, "we purge ourselves of impurity that is a product of imperialism and return to the true values of Islam." Gaddafi still lives in a barren two-room apartment at the Aziziya army barracks with his second wife Safiya, a former nurse whom he met two years ago while he was recovering from an automobile accident. She has presented him with a son, whom he named Seif al-Islam (sword of Islam), and is expecting...
...history of the region. Says Shimon Shamir, Arab specialist at the Shiloah Institute in Tel Aviv: "The conflict with-and defeat by -Israel was a microcosm of the whole Arab experience with the West." He means that ever since the Renaissance, the whole power of Arab ideology, or political Islam, has been in conflict with the power of Western technology and political capitalism-and that the Arabs have lost in nearly every conflict...
Even when he was still known as Cassius Clay the world beyond the buttons had taken a fashion to the fast-handed fighter who stunned Sonny Liston with contemptuous authority. But, when after falling under the spell of Malcolm X, the religion of Islam, and the disciplined dignity of Elijah Muhammad's followers. Cassius Clay became Muhammad Ali and Muhammad Ali attracted the wrath of white American bureaucratic brontosaurs like the WBA, the Selective Service, and the American Legion, the world beyond the buttons developed a clinging passion to the man who had become their champion. In Africa, Asia, Latin...