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...effort to conceal the fact that he actually was an assassin on assignment. But on his undershirt, cops found two messages written in red ink: "The military pact and oil agreement must be abrogated and all Moslem rules enforced. Islam is above all." The second was from the Koran: "Those who get killed for God and for His rules are not dead but alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: The Dangerous Mosque | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

...apprehensive that ye shall not deal fairly with orphans, then, of other women, who seem good in your eyes, marry but two, or three, or four, and if ye still fear that ye shall not act equitably, then one only. -Mohammed, in the Koran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDONESIA: That Woman of Solo | 10/24/1955 | See Source »

Slow to make decisions, Chaudhri is steel-nerved in executing them. His favorite verse from the Koran reads: "Once you have decided, have faith in God and go ahead without faltering." Says one critic: "When he does rarely show an emotion, it is like watching oil drip from a robot's loosened joint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAKISTAN: Frontier Democracy | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

...invited the scared Brothers, self-professed keepers of the Moslem tradition, to explain precisely certain passages of the Koran. When they faltered, he sneered: "You call yourselves soldiers of God!" Under his searing tongue, the accused abjectly passed the buck to one another. Mahmoud Abdul Latif, the little tinsmith who fired eight wild shots at Nasser in Alexandria a month ago, burst into tears and sobbed that he was but a dupe led on by clever masters. Supreme Guide Hodeiby protested violently: "I stayed against my will and tried to resign, but the Brotherhood refused." At first, Terrorist Chief Youssef...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Snapping the Trap | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

...powers, tells how even the witch doctors feared her and the crocodiles refused to attack her. When he left home to go to school, she gave him a magic brain potion to sip before he began to study. It consisted of honey mixed with the water used to wash Koran texts from prayer boards. The stuff must have worked because Laye wound up first in his class. His childhood memoir is eloquent proof that even gifted young Africans have not yet cut the umbilical cord binding them to traditions that were old when Stanley presumed he had met Livingstone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Three out of Africa | 11/15/1954 | See Source »

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