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...Near fabled Samarkand, in the Uzbek Soviet republic, Chairman Hakim Mamadiarov of the Karl Marx collective farm was denounced for living like an Oriental potentate. Despite the Soviet ban on polygamy, Moslem Hakim has three wives, as permitted by the Koran, and each wife has a well-appointed separate residence, garden, and private herd of cows. Hakim himself has a house assessed at $22,200, plus a Volga auto, two motorbikes, a radio-phonograph console, a tape recorder and several TV sets. Of two peasants who protested his running of the farm, one was badly beaten, the other vanished. Demanding...
...ruler of oil-rich Saudi Arabia (estimated annual revenue from oil: about $400 million) regards Nasser as a Marxist firebrand whose form of "Arab socialism" defiles the Koran; Nasser denounces Saud as a feudal overlord and satyr who keeps his people in bondage. Each morning Radio Cairo broadcasts prayers for the quick demise of the "antisocial, reactionary, squandering, lecherous, oligarch Saud. his family and supporters." In retaliation, Saud, who once financed a $5,000,000 plot to kill Nasser, this year barred delivery of the kiswa, the canopy for the holy Black Stone in Mecca that Egyptian craftsmen had spent...
...Koran says, do not nationalize other people's property. Let us return to Islamic laws and let us have union on our own terms...
...this fast-paced game of musical buildings, a strict ritual is observed. "Do you swear on the Koran that you are only making 10% profit on the building you're selling me?" the prospective buyer asks. The outgoing landlord places his hand on the book, nods solemnly, then walks off with as much as double his original investment. Occasionally the victims strike back. One Lebanese sharpie who cleared $500,000 by selling a building to nine Saudis was later found beaten beyond recognition. But, said one local businessman in the spirit of his crafty Phoenician forebears: "If I could...
...should not have emphasized Bashir's first pair of shoes or his vow on the Koran. You would do the same before flying to Venus, if you held the Bible sacred...