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...February at 77. Last week, at a mass rally of 12,000 of the faithful at Chicago's McCormick Place, Elijah's son and successor, Wallace D. Muhammad, made it official: the race-hatred theme is being shelved. Whites will even be permitted to join the sect, though no rush of recruits is expected. Said Wallace: "We have caught hell from the white man for 400 years, but we have grown to where if the white man respects us, we will respect...
...holding off the fierce power struggle that had been widely expected to follow Elijah's passing. Certainly, Muslim Spokesman Abdul Haleem (Louis) Farrakhan, the most charismatic figure in the movement today, is at pains to dispel rumors that he was moved from his potent Harlem base to the sect's Chicago headquarters so that Wallace could keep a closer eye on him. At last week's rally, Farrakhan was full of praise for the new messiah. "No other man holds the key to divinity," he said. "There is no one wise enough to approach the shoelaces...
History's classic murders for policy purposes were committed by the 11th-century Moslem sect of Assassins, founded by the fanatically ambitious Hasan ibn-al-Sabbah. Established in a rocky fortress in the Elburz mountains, Hasan propagated his autocratic rule by a program of systematic murder. His killers were the Fida'is (devout ones), young men trained from adolescence in a sort of Green Beret tradition to murder with a variety of weapons...
...Thugs in India were another murderous sect, but they killed not for political control but in devotion to Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, and for gain. Like the Assassins, the Thugs bore some resemblance to modern spies in their undercover operations, methods of infiltration and disguise...
Outside the Cabinet building, where Faisal had spent so many long workdays dealing with affairs of state and receiving his subjects, white tents were set up to shelter the dignitaries who had come to attend the funeral. The rules of Islam's strict Wahhabi sect, to which King Faisal be longed, stipulate that a man's body should be buried as soon as possible after his death; Faisal's funeral, however, was delayed 36 hours in order to await the arrival of foreign delegations...