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...changed, and today everyone wants independence." One Egyptian put it more drastically: "Belgrave was one of those so-called Arab experts. Just as Glubb went, so he's gone, and so will go all of them. Nobody's impressed any more with Englishmen who can recite the Koran. The hell with them...
...first acts as an independent nation, the new Moslem-dominated state of Tunisia this week abolished plural marriage (up to four wives at any one time) sanctioned for Moslems by the Koran and by the example of Prophet Mohammed. "These measures have been taken to better protect the home, the base of society," announced Premier Habib Bourguiba, an Arab who has but one wife, a Frenchwoman. He added that girls would no longer be permitted to become child-brides at 14 or less, that youths and girls over 20 need no longer get parental consent to marry, that male Tunisians...
...Marry such women as seem good to you, two, three or four," the Holy Koran exhorts the faithful, "but if you fear you will not be equitable, then only one, or what your right hands own, so it is likelier you will not be partial." Through 13 centuries, Moslem males have enjoyed polygamy and insisted that they have avoided partiality. But the truth is quite otherwise, to hear the 20,000 members of the All-Pakistan Women's Association tell it. "If any man is honest with himself and understands human nature," argued one passionate Pakistani feminist, "he will...
...Polygamy," said the commission, "is prompted by the lower self of men who are devoid of refined sentiments." Anticipating objections from the mullahs, the commission insisted that it was not amending the Koran-only reading it right. The commission then went on to grapple with the touchy and important problem of reconciling progress with religion in a nation whose principal basis for being was its Moslem faith. The commission appealed to the right of ijtihad, or exercise of individual judgment within the broad framework of the revealed word. Moslem law, said the commission, holds that in the Koran "what...
...Egyptian Ministry of Education warned Protestant and Roman Catholic mission schools that beginning next year they will be obliged to provide instruction in the Koran to Moslems in their schools, courses in Egyptian history, geography and civics to all their students. Penalty for refusal: confiscation...