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...also by the nation's Communist Party. With 6,000 active members and the support of 200,000 trade unionists, it is the biggest and most vigorous in the Arab world, largely by virtue of its skill at getting Marx and Mohammed to coexist (verses from the Koran are chanted in unison at party meetings). Though he is a leftist, Numeiry is an intense foe of the local Communists-partly because they oppose his plan to link the Sudan in a federation with Libya, Egypt and Syria, and partly because he is convinced that they want to undermine...
According to the Director General of the Thai Religious Affairs Department, plans have been started to translate the Koran into Thai so the residents of the south could study their scripture in the language of their country. The only problem is that Malay rather than Thai is their mother tongue, and all Muslims use Arabic rather than any vernacular when praying...
...villagers in Ramparts of Clay, yesterday, today and tomorrow are one. The muezzin's chant, the shepherd's flock, the inexorable rhythms of the desert-all seem to have been delivered whole from the verses of the Koran. In Director Jean-Louis Bertucelli's first feature, that isolation has the dimension of tragedy. Though France has granted Tunisia her independence and social change has been promised, the citizenry are still degraded, the colonial mind is still at work...
...dozen warriors from Timor Island, wearing red headgear and waving machetes, did sword dances in front of the Pope's car as he was driven around the stadium track. An ecumenical procession, including Protestants, Moslems and Buddhists, bore an array of gifts -among them a copy of the Koran in Arabic. In his sermon, the Pope repeated once more his message of Catholicism's universality. "Jesus Christ shared our human condition, making himself a part of the world of his time," Paul reminded his listeners. "In the same way, the Christian is no stranger among his own people...
...seemed to promise a return to the glories of ancient times. A long and luminous success for the Arabs began in the 7th century with the appearance of Mohammed, along with his religion Islam (submission to God's will) and his 80,000-word book of holy writ, the Koran. Under Mohammed's exhortations, the flaming sword of Islam extended Moslem dominion across the Mediterranean basin. Arab armies broke the Byzantine and Persian empires and carried the crescent emblem of Mohammedanism as far west as Spain and southern France and as far east as India and the Chinese border. Saladin...