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Home & Headquarters. The insurrection began on Friday, holiest day of the Moslem week, and in the midst of Ramadan, the month when good Moslems fast every day from sunup to sundown and tempers are everywhere short. Army trucks and tanks were already rumbling through the streets when at 9:30 a.m., a strident new voice on Radio Baghdad began exulting, "This is the voice of the Iraqi revolution!" Accusing "Kassem the dictator" of having "murdered citizens, weakened the army, imprisoned and executed scores of officers," the broadcaster claimed that the rebels "have destroyed the tyrant...
...Moslem mullahs (priests), whose shrine lands were up for leasing to Iran's landless farmers, did not like the idea at all. Students protested the Shah's dissolution of the Majlis (parliament) a year and a half ago after the legislators rigged elections, then crippled the royal land reform bill with 93 amendments. Since then, ruling by decree, the Shah has distributed 2,000,000 acres of private land (with compensation to owners) to some 50,000 peasant families in 3,500 villages...
Sudan's anti-Christian campaign is a product of history and geography, as well as of Islam's militant spread across modern Africa. The 8,000,000 Sudanese of the sandy north are Arabic and Nubian in origin, and Moslem to a man. Most of the 4,000,000 inhabitants of the swampy and forest-covered south are black Africans, who know that in the days before British rule Arab traders sold their ancestors into slavery and have long sought some measure of local autonomy from Dictator Ibrahim Abboud's all-Moslem government. Since Independence...
Omar was indeed a Roman Catholic. Further scandalizing Arabs everywhere, he swiftly became a Moslem and therefore a hypocrite (in the public view) in order to marry Fatten. No one seemed to care that she had to get rid of another husband, Director Izzeddine Zulfikar, before she could join in the ceremony. For that matter, no one cares very much any more about kisses in Egyptian movies; since that scandalous icebreaker, kisses have become commonplace...
Eweida insists that "the council's mission is purely religious-it has nothing to do with politics." Nonetheless, the council is violently opposed to Islamic organizations associated with other Moslem leaders, such as the mission-minded Ahmadiyya Movement of Pakistan or the puritanical Wahhabi sect of Saudi Arabia. To Eweida, it is kismet that Islam should grow, and that Egypt should become the center of Islamic culture. Nasser thinks...