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...Harvard's center, Turkish Anthropologist Nur Yalman: "Arabs who are educated enough to compete in the environment of the Western university are already the cream of the cream." He adds that such men have a "serious consciousness of a deep cultural gap between the Christian and the Moslem worlds...
Global Change. Feisal's decision to scale down led the rest of the Arab world into a rare show of unity. In the Moslem Middle East, only non-Arab Iran continues to pump and ship oil in normal amounts. Last week, accepting the credentials of the new U.S. ambassador, James Akins, Feisal said that the Arabs were determined to stand fast this time and that they could not be "forthcoming" on the issue of energy as long as the U.S. held its old position on Israel. It is a measure of the rise of Arab power in world affairs that...
When Stalin took over, the policy changed to one of tighter control, including reins on the practice of religion, on intellectual freedom and on economic organization. Once the borders in the area were solidified to Moscow's satisfaction, the Moslems' claims to self-determination took a backseat of the goal of strengthening the country's unity. After the Moslem areas were occupied by the Nazis in the Second World War, as many as a million Moslems were transported to settlements in Siberia as the Soviets adopted the ultimate imperialist weapon, genocide...
...stunning conquests of Mohammed's Arab successors, which swept across the Middle East and North Africa into Spain and even France, first gave Islam its formidable reputation for waging holy war. Now, with Moslems scattered among many, often rivalrous nation-states and among a number of sects, such monolithic holy war is impossible. Some Moslem scholars insist that the obligation to wage it, once one of Islam's most sacred tasks, has also passed, and that "striving" for Allah these days should be through persuasion alone...
Last week Sadat was directing the fighting from an office at army headquarters on the edge of Cairo, where he is residing for the duration of the war. A devout Moslem who has made the hadj (pilgrimage) to the holy places of Mecca, Sadat observed the strict Ramadan fast. Most days he napped from 4 until 6 in the afternoon, then worked late into the night holding operations meetings with his staff. He has a reputation for listening closely to his generals and of deferring to their expertise; but he makes the decisions himself...