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...Place of the Prophet...
...Prophet with a Gun" [Jan. 16] is a masterly handling of the most complex political problem of our times. Where hopes and fears, religion and politics, dreams and nightmares are so grievously mixed, any complete story is impossible. It may be too idealistic to ask for a solution through love, but, having long known Palestine, I feel that the present hatred endangers not only the small, struggling state of Israel but the world as well...
...Prophet of P.P. Fired from his bookstore job. Gordon at last gets a bellyful of real poverty. He spends most of his time lying on a foul mattress and staring at the ceiling. He watches the bugs march in stately procession round his garret-but not very often, because the room is so ice-cold that the bugs feel cozier in the woodwork. At this point of the story, Novelist Orwell has more than driven home his point: "To abjure money is to abjure life." Man's first duty is to get himself "bound up in the bundle...
...returned to their rightful owners." Furthermore, Mohammed himself has said: "He who dies in defense of his property is a martyr; he who dies in defense of his honor is a martyr." When Mohammed and his followers were driven out of Mecca, the Ulema recalled, Allah ordered his Prophet: "Drive them from where they have driven you" and "Attack who attacked you in the same way." That, said the Ulema, is again the duty of all the faithful...
...succeeded in restoring the lost Muhammad to his owner, but that was not all. It aroused the ire of some 100,000 affronted Moslems who claimed their Prophet had been insulted. Some 5,000 of them jammed the streets in front of the Pioneer's offices shouting "Shame." Students boycotted school, and businessmen shut their shops. A protest meeting was held in the city's biggest mosque. In the state assembly, a Hindu Communist took advantage of the situation to decry the government's "indifference to the resentment of the Moslem minority." The Pioneer published an abject...