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...Moslem countries, the architects must build slaughterhouses so that animals die facing Mecca, but they have learned that it is an unpardonable sin to install a toilet facing in that direction. Moslem hospitals must be designed so that men and women can be strictly separated at all times. Projects are often delayed by revolutions, coups d'etat, bureaucracy and corruption. In Africa, the architects have had to abandon some carefully selected building sites at the last minute. Reason: local witch doctors considered them "bad juju...
While there is little evidence of a formal alliance between the two forces, they certainly play into each other's hands. If anything, the Iranian Reds have been quiescent lately, while Moscow was wooing Teheran through diplomacy. But there has been increased activity by Moslem fanatics, who are particularly opposed to the Shah's selling mosque-owned estates to land-hungry peasants and his grants of social and political equality to women...
Raising the war cry "Down with the undemocratic regime of the Shah," Moslem extremists are fighting reforms with terror. In the last 16 years, three Iranian leaders have been murdered and a fourth narrowly escaped. The latest victim: Premier Hassanali Mansur, 41, who died last week after having been shot by a young Moslem terrorist at the gates of the Iranian Parliament...
...State Department had not sent good wishes to Zanzibar's Boss Abeid Karume on "the twelfth"-the first anniversary of the coup d'état that gave him power on Jan. 12, 1964. Carlucci explained that celebrations of the coup had been postponed because of Ramadan, the Moslem month of fasting. Answered Gordon: "Well, make sure Karume gets the message on the second twelfth...
Prohibition came to Kuwait as deviously as an Arab horse trade. In theory only Christian residents of the predominantly Moslem nation could drink, using ration cards to obtain whisky through London's Gray Mackenzie & Co. Ltd., which has had an import monopoly on Kuwait's liquor flow for decades. In fact, Moslems imbibed increasingly, and drunken-driving fatalities mounted apace. The nation's stricter religious leaders then teamed up with local merchants who resented Gray Mackenzie's lucrative monopoly to introduce a prohibition bill in the Kuwaiti Assembly. With voting a matter of public record...