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...twist. Pointing out that the first of the five principles of the Asian Panch Shila, upon which the Indonesian state is founded, calls for belief in God and respect for all religions, Sukarno cut short his address so that Moslems present could attend evening prayer. Said he: "I say salaam aleikum (peace be with you). I close with merdeka, merdeka and once more merdeka...
...Carpet. In Soviet Asia, it was Nehru's turn to score. At a shishkebab and pilaf supper in Tashkent he found that the people, despite 40 years of complete isolation from the rest of Asia, "still had Asian consciousness." They greeted him with cries of "Salaam aleikum" (may peace be upon you), and in Samarkand the en tire population came out into the streets chanting community songs. Telegrams be gan to pour in from Russian citizens asking permission to name their sons Jawaharlal or their daughters Indira (after Nehru's daughter...
...nasal wail of muezzins crying, "There is no God but Allah," calls the faithful to the salat al-jami, the obligatory Friday service. The devout shutter their shops, rush through a thorough washing, and hurry into the mosque. Clad in dignity and finery, the imam ascends the pulpit, murmurs "salaam alei-kum," recites a text from the Koran, and begins a sermon which rarely lasts more than 20 minutes. So it has been for centuries...
...last month. Colonel Hashem Sepahpur of the Teheran military governor's office ran into an old acquaintance, an ex-army captain named Ali Abbasi. "Salaam," cried out the colonel in greeting. Ali, a frail, limping man of about 40, responded with a cordial "Salaam," but hurried on, nervously clutching a worn leather suitcase. "I'm going to the doctor now," he called back...
...Ankara airport landed a Russian transport plane, ostensibly out of fuel. Out popped 21 gaily clad Mecca-bound pilgrims, Communists all, yet Moslems to a man. Two of them, their passports showed, were Red army officers. While the prospective hadjis were still scattering affable salaam aleikums around the airport, Russian-embassy personnel arrived. Their eagerness was understandable : Russia is trying hard to woo not only its own Moslem population of about 30 million (which has often been rebellious and subject to purges) but the 310 million Moslems whose lands stretch in a strategic arc from Casablanca to the Sulu...