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...eclectic theologian, Bhashani completely ignores the fatalistic aspect of Mohammedanism. "My religion is revolutionary, and I am a religious man," he argues. "Therefore, it is my religion to rise up against wrong." He scorns the established order that the Koran bids the faithful to support. In his view, the status quo must be completely upset so that the new order in which he believes may take root. Bhashani also makes no apology for his allegiance to China, heightened during his first visit to Peking in 1952. Says he: "I admire everything about China except its godlessness...
...start a Maoist revolt, Bhashani's well-trained party workers led some of the worst rampaging, in which hundreds of people, including a dozen minor officials, were murdered and many houses burned down. Bhashani shrugs off the violence as "male-ganimat," or retribution, which is condoned by the Koran...
...sugarcane farmers, Burnham's government has been working on new strains that will mean better crops. Also, Burnham allowed India's Bank of Baroda to open a branch in Guyana, declared national holidays on Muslim and Hindu feast days, issued Guyanan postage stamps in honor of the Koran. As a result, Burnham last week carried Indian districts that Jagan had always considered safe. And the long-term effects of such policies augur well for mineral-rich Guyana's future in an atmosphere of racial harmony. They do, that is, unless the mercurial Jagan oversteps his angry...
Reading the Koran. But nowhere was the devastation more complete than at Kakhk, which is located near the epicenter of the original quake. The stench of death hung everywhere as Iranian soldiers, Boy Scouts and teen-age volunteers, their faces covered with protective handkerchiefs, dug frantically into the rubble. More than 40 hours after the earthquake, one grandmother was found safe beneath a fallen archway, reading the Koran to her three-year-old grandson. Few of the searches were so well rewarded...
...family drove off all bidders, and the Bolivians were left with the diary and no money at all. Not that it mattered much. All sorts of people made off with photocopies, including Michéle. Said she triumphantly: "The diary in the hands of the U.S. is like the Koran in the hands of the infidels...