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...direct flights between Tel Aviv and Cairo to take place in 25 years. "This is my last flight. I will not fight anymore," said Muzbach Jaber Abu Halbia, 30, from a stretcher. As he was helped aboard, Egyptian Mohammed Aly, 30, clutched a small blue-bound Koran that had been given to him by the Arab mayor of Hebron. "I believe that peace is coming," said Aly with awe. "Inshallah...
Feisal is the third of more than 40 sons of Abdul Aziz ibn Saud, a tough Moslem chief who created the kingdom of Saudi Arabia by subjugating and uniting desert tribes and kingdoms. As a boy, Feisal was taught to read the Koran by private tutors, became an expert horseman and joined his father's military campaigns. In 1931, after Ibn Saud had consolidated his kingdom, Feisal was named Foreign Minister and began to travel extensively in Europe and the U.S. After his father died in 1953, Feisal's oldest brother Saud became King; but he proved inept...
Feisal 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...
...retreated from the idea of sacred conquest to an ethic of self-defense, early Islam moved the other way. When his group was still small in the early years at Medina, Mohammed preached a doctrine of self-defense. "Fight against those who fight against you," Allah warns in the Koran's second sura. "But begin not hostilities. Allah loves not aggressors...
Holy War. The very word jihad is ambiguous. In some parts of the Koran, it means any "struggle" or "striving" in the cause of Allah-such as leading a righteous life. But in other sections of the holy book, revealed to the Prophet after he and his followers had begun the successful conquest of their Arab neighbors, jihad takes on a military tone. Small wonder: Mohammed is said to have led 26 or 27 battles...