Word: nasserism
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Puffed Candle. That did not keep Kassem from making new efforts to establish himself as a counterweight to the U.A.R.'s Nasser within the Arab League. Last week, at Kassem's invitation, Tunisia's Habib Bourguiba rejoined the councils of the Arab League; he walked out in a huff two years ago on the straightforward ground that Nasser had tried to have him assassinated...
...occasion, Kassem had planned a warm reception when Tunisia's delegate arrived for the Arab League meeting held in Baghdad. He was disconcerted when 10,000 Iraqis flocked to the airport to greet not the Tunisian but the U.A.R.'s Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi, shouting "Union under Nasser soon...
...Even as Nasser hobnobs with Africa's new political leaders at Casablanca and sends planes to supply Congolese revolutionaries, he is also driving to extend his influence southward through religion. Islam, with an estimated 88 million African followers, is the continent's biggest religion, far surpassing Christianity with its 34 million. Nasser is out to convince 75 million Africans who still worship old bush gods that Christianity is tainted with "imperialism," that Islam is the only faith fit for a free Africa. Says one Cairo tract, printed in Swahili and other African languages: "Christian missionaries preach one wife...
...African states take their place in the world's councils, Nasser hopes to get their Moslem population looking to Cairo for guidance and help. With this in mind, the United Arab Republic's religion ministry will this year open a broadcasting station called the Voice of Islam-to do for religious affairs what the famed Voice of the Arabs now does for Cairo's political propaganda. Nasser also plans to appoint a religious attaché to every U.A.R. embassy or legation in Africa...
Perhaps the most powerful religious force working for Nasser is Cairo's 1,000-year-old al-Azhar University, greatest center of higher learning in the Islamic world and seat of an "Islamic Missions City" that attracts students from every Moslem land. Recently, one Omar Salah walked all the way from Ghana to enroll at al-Azhar. It is some measure of Nasser's expectations that al-Azhar has already awarded scholarships to 2,000 Africans-as many Africans as are now studying in the whole...