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...television, he says, is on every waking hour--he merely turns down the volume when he needs to concentrate on something else. Several open newspapers, a copy of the Koran and his Muslim prayer rug sit on top of his Kuwaiti flag: "I lent it to someone for the protest...
...speaks, he reaches for the Koran, opening it to a passage which reads: "If two parties of believers take up arms the one against the other, make peace between them. If either of them commits aggression against the other, fight the aggressor until they submit to God's judgment...
...speakers' prayers for peace were from various sources, including the Koran, the Torah and the Bible...
...declaring that a committee of religious scholars should investigate before any action was taken. The governor of Riyadh, Prince Salman Bin Abdel-Aziz, assembled a commission that rapidly decided that the women hadn't actually committed a crime. The committee found there was no specific prohibition in the Koran on driving. In fact, during the time of the Prophet, women regularly led camels across the desert. Even now, Bedouin women have regularly been permitted to drive cars and trucks in isolated parts of the kingdom. The committee nevertheless gently advised against repeating the experiment...
...Islam also enshrined certain discriminatory practices. As decreed by the Koran, the value of a woman's testimony in court is worth half that of a man's, and men are entitled to four spouses, whereas women can have only one. Males are superior, some argue, because the Koran says they have "more strength...