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...emancipation of Turkey from the doctrines of the Koran seems to be a cardinal policy of Turkish Republicanism. First, the sale of alcoholic stimulants was permitted (TIME, Mar. 10, 1923), although the Koran forbids it; second, Turks were made monogamous by passage of a law (TIME, Aug. 18), although the Koran permits a man four wives; now, a movement is on foot to erect, at Angora, a gigantic equestrian statue of Mustafa Kemal Pasha, President of Turkey, although the Koran proscribes representation of living beings in any form whatever...
...Koran permits a man four wives, but many a Turk has beer guilty of concubinal cupidity and has excessively multiplied that number Nevertheless, Turks have for long taken pride in pointing fingers oi scorn at the prostitution of worrier in the Occident, which was a thing unknown to polygamous, Turkish Turkey...
Thus the dry era, put into force by the Turk Nationalists, was also ended by them; although the Koran expressly forbids alcoholic stimulant...
Hindus admit the possibility of multiple leadership in religious experiences, and, since their idea of religion reaches out of the limits of theology and covers the entire domain of human experiences, they have no single book like the Bible, Koran or Zenda Vesta but their religious doctrines are to be found in the vast Sanskrit literature of which I have spoken...
...either private or public. . . . He swears by nonviolence, Charka, Hindu Moslem unity and the removal of untouchability. He spins [with a distaff] regularly every day for four hours, unless his eyes do not permit him. He reads largely religious books, chiefly the Gita and Upanishads. He has read the Koran and he is now re-reading the Bible...