Word: islamize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...What guarantee does Betzner have that the Catholics are not going to have women priests soon?" asked a young woman at Augustana. "The only thing left for him then is to convert to Islam...
...proven reserves run to 137 billion bbl.?one-fifth of the world's total. Feisal's oil wealth has made him a combination banker and big brother to the Arab nations. He also commands special respect among the world's 471 million Moslems because his kingdom embraces Islam's two holiest cities, Mecca and Medina. Feisal has a keener understanding of the West than most Arab leaders, and since he became king nine years ago, his relations with Europe and particularly the U.S. have been good...
...rules his people like a tribal chief, relying for advice on a small circle of ministers and halfbrothers. There are no elections, no political parties and no legislature and no constitution besides the Koran. Religion permeates public life, and the only law of the land is the law of Islam. The Mutawa, or religious police, patrol the streets to make sure that Saudis observe their prayer times and close their shops when they do so. Harsh penalties for crime remain on the books-stoning to death for adultery, beheading for murder, cutting off a hand for thievery-though they...
...stunning conquests of Mohammed's Arab successors, which swept across the Middle East and North Africa into Spain and even France, first gave Islam its formidable reputation for waging holy war. Now, with Moslems scattered among many, often rivalrous nation-states and among a number of sects, such monolithic holy war is impossible. Some Moslem scholars insist that the obligation to wage it, once one of Islam's most sacred tasks, has also passed, and that "striving" for Allah these days should be through persuasion alone...
Still, the Islamic view of the world in a sense pitches it into an endless struggle against the rest of mankind. Islam sees itself as a universal religion, with a formula for order and justice that Allah intends the entire world eventually to accept. That obviously clashes with the ancient vision of the Arabs' cousins in Israel, who have a different covenant with God. Such spiritual implications may not have started the latest Middle East war, but they certainly nourish the hostilities, making them more difficult to stop-and easier to start again...