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...leaving for Paris, Talal entertained the Pakistan minister and handed him three gifts. The first was a diamond pin which the King said had belonged to his grandfather, Hussein of Mecca. Said Talal: "He served the British, and he died alone." Talal then gave the minister a gold-lettered Koran which had belonged to his father, Abdullah: "He served the British well, and he was murdered in a mosque," he said. Then Talal handed the minister his own jeweled dagger, and said: "I serve the British. I wonder what my end will...
...Arabs had a morality and political system which suited their severe lives crudely but comparatively well. The poorest Bedouin could get an audience with the great sheik and a handout from his kitchens. The mistreated slaves could flee to the local ruler, demand protection under the law of the Koran...
...Mohammedan Koran sternly forbids the use of alcoholic beverages, but through the centuries, Moslem Iran drank freely and happily of the fermented grape, and produced a bibulous poet, Omar Khayyam. Last week, in Omar Khayyam's homeland, the Majlis turned on liquor as though it were the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. itself, voted for prohibition...
...horses I once owned," he said, "only six are left, and now I am selling them. But it is better to live poor in a land where one can follow his faith than in a godless country. To the Communists, there is no God but Stalin. Communists burn the Koran and punish those who are caught reading it. They turn our mosques into theaters. They say that Islam is the product of a madman's raving, used by reactionaries to sanction the exploitation of the poor. They eat pork and drink wine -both forbidden by our religion. But nothing...
...Islam, - indeed, especially renewed with Aristotle - Christendom's and out contact of with this Greek renewal philosophy flowed Aquinas' philosophy and, later, the Renaissance. From the first the Ulema had been suspicious of all legal and ethical judgments based upon reason. The learned doctors held that the Koran and the sayings of the Prophet were the only sources of truth...