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When Evren and the other four members of the ruling National Security Council took the oath of office, they chose not to swear on the Koran or any other holy book. Instead, to underscore the secular nature of the Turkish state, they swore on their honor and invoked the name of Kemal Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey...
...President Abolhassan Banisadr and Ayatullah Seyyed Mohammed Beheshti, leading member of the Revolutionary Council-were assigned adjacent seats in the front of the ornate red-and-gold chamber, the size of a movie theater. They scarcely looked at each other during the ceremony, which began with recitations from the Koran and a boys' choir chanting revolutionary songs. The ailing Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, 80, spiritual leader of Iran's revolution, did not attend; he dispatched his son, Seyyed Ahmed, to deliver his inaugural message, warning against "plotters" from either the U.S. or the Soviet Union and stressing the need...
Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie has denounced the murder and called upon Iran's President Abolhassan Banisadr to safeguard the nation's religious minorities, already officially protected by law. The Koran advocates tolerance for Jews and Christians as "People of the Book" (in their case the Bible). Beyond that, the nation's new Islamic constitution guarantees freedom for both religions and for Zoroastrianism as well, provided they are practiced "within the law." (That means, for example, they cannot use wine in ritual because alcohol is banned in Iran.) Others are guaranteed no freedom of worship...
...justice and love that religions probably were teaching even in the caves from which humanity emerged all those millenniums ago. "Do ye think that ye shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed away before you?" asks the Muslim Holy Book, the Koran...
...crime," Ismail R. al Faruqi wrote last January in the Pakistani Muslim journal Universal Message. "The employees of any embassy do not fall in this category." Envoys who misbehave cannot be imprisoned, only expelled or fined to pay for any property damage. He also says the imprisonment violates the Koran's declaration that "no soul can be charged with the sins of another...