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Last month another ring of prospering foreign traders was broken up in the Moslem Soviet Republic of Uzbekistan. Alas, a railroad policeman was on the platform of Tashkent's station when coins clinked at the feet of an elderly beggar. The cop discovered that the coins were solid gold and bore the face of Czar Nicholas...
...heaven there is Allah," goes a popular saying in Moslem Egypt, "and on earth Nasser." The God of Islam and Egypt's dictator make a prosperous team. Today the faith of Mohammed is spreading rapidly across Africa, and with it spreads the dream of a Pan-Islamic political empire under Gamal Abdel Nasser. Both dreams are being propagated by one of the world's most energetic missionary forces: the Supreme Islamic Council, a smooth-running religious organization controlled by the Egyptian government...
With 430 million adherents, Islam remains a poor second in size to Christianity among the world's great religions. But not since the 8th century, when Arab warriors spread Islam across three continents at the point of the scimitar, has there been anything to compare with the current Moslem growth in Africa. There are more than 100 million Moslems on the Dark Continent, and the simple doctrines and disciplines taught by Mohammed are gaining perhaps 9,000,000 converts a year from tribal cults-nine times the conversion rate to Christianity. "The Afro-Asian nations have come...
...pill responsible for much of the awakening. Its high-powered radio station, the Voice of Islam, broadcasts the message of the Koran twelve hours a day in eight languages. The council has its own coed training camps. It also provides 1,300 scholarships annually at Egyptian universities to young Moslem men and women from around the world. It sends gold-plated Korans to Afro-Asian VIPs-Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta got one recently with a friendly inscription by Nasser. It has supplied 3,000-volume libraries to 125 Islamic centers on five continents. Its tireless printing presses flood Africa...
...make the Koran's 7th century message apply to modern problems, the council's 180 technical advisers are now turning out fresh commentaries on obscure phrases of the Prophet. They operate a fulltime answering service to resolve such religious scruples of the devout as whether a Moslem can accept a blood transfusion from a non-Moslem, and when abortion is lawful...