Word: moslem
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...Although Moslem women in such countries as Tunisia and Lebanon are clamoring for equality, Scholar-Sheik Abu Zahara defended the double-standard system of polygamy on the ground that "it has put a limit to the chaotic side of social life." He also upheld the essential humanity of such traditional Arab punishments as cutting off the hands of thieves and flogging adulterers. The pain is acute and the experience humiliating, the Sheik admitted, but it does not last as long as the Western way of punishment, imprisonment...
...tradition. But even though loans at interest are made by all Arab-nation banks, most Islamic scholars still stoutly maintain that this is nothing less than the sin of usury. Others feel that even fire, death and accident insurance are precautions that should not be taken by the good Moslem with faith in the all-merciful Allah...
...both may lose, in the clash of two cultures both may gain. When 12,000 Arab troops landed at Gibraltar in A.D. 711, the invaders brought along with their scimitars a civilization that was far in advance of anything found in Europe during the Dark Ages. With the conquering Moslem armies came algebra, advances in medicine, chess, astronomy, paper instead of papyrus. Compared with heavy Romanesque, their architecture seemed to defy gravity, lifting lacy ceilings that appeared to float like airy tents above thin columns of jasper and porphyry, while within each courtyard water splashed from fountains, turning their Islamic...
...thing that is likely to crop up in afterhours student talk, such as psychedelic drugs. Others, however, attempt to fill a genuine gap in the official university curriculum. At Cornell, where there is no religion department, undergraduates plan to offer a class in the "Death of God Theology," and Moslem students will teach Islamic culture. One Cornell professor has even signed up for a student-taught course in jazz-something unavailable at the university's own music school. At Dartmouth a fraternity is organizing a shadow school class in the "Folklore of the White Mountains...
...soldier stormed in, brandishing a rifle and demanding "Ina Nyammari?"-Hausa for "Where are the damned Ibos?" There were Ibos among the customs officials, and they dropped their chalk and fled, only to be shot down in the main terminal by other soldiers. Screaming the blood curses of a Moslem holy war, the Hausa troops turned the airport into a shambles, bayoneting Ibo workers in the bar, gunning them down in the corridors, and hauling Ibo passengers off the plane to be lined up and shot...