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...heatedly disavow Elijah and his followers). They must shave their goatees. When pork appears on prison menus, Muslims disdain it.* Mess-hall fighting has been touched off when they have attempted to impose their dietary laws on other prisoners. Elijah's bizarre version of the Koran is barred in all prisons...
...other religions. The followers of Mohammed, said Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, submit to a "profoundly reactionary'' religion. The paper accused the Moslem clergy of not encouraging the cause of socialism, of not teaching their congregations "to study or investigate the phenomena of life, since this life, according to the Koran, is only ephemeral...
...there, came home and set off on royal safaris across the desert, dispensing largesse to tribal chieftains. Over the past twelve months, Saud has married himself to 100 delighted Bedouin maidens, thus delighting their powerful tribal fathers as well. Since he is allowed only four official wives by the Koran, the King scrupulously divorced one old wife before each new marriage, pensioning her off at $2,500 a month. Such heavy alimony payments made the King chafe all the more at his Feisal-imposed personal budget of only $30 million a year...
Golden Days. Early in the 9th century, when Fez was still a young hamlet, its ruler cried: "O God, make this city a center of law and science where your book [the Koran] will be studied." To fulfill this dream, a wealthy widow of Fez commissioned Karaouine mosque, which took 278 years to complete. The mosque was already famed as a university when the first European university was established in Bologna about noo. Begun as a theological seminary, Karaouine soon taught 8,000 students everything from medicine to geography...
...made lawful for you," says the Koran, "to go in unto your wives on the night of the fast [and] hold intercourse with them and eat and drink until the white thread becomes distinct to you from the black thread of the dawn." But all through the long daylight hours of Ramadan, the holy month in which the Koran was revealed to Mohammed, good Moslems must abstain from food and sex according to the most rigorous rules. Strict devotion to Ramadan lays a heavy burden on modern urban living: people became irritable and ineffectual on the job. Tunisia...