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Convinced that U. S. support of the partition plan for Palestine was a "bad decision," Professor Elliott thought it would "work out peacefully but under a regime celebrating the virtues of Allah, on one hand, and Marx, on the other." It would be dangerous, he claimed to "let 100,000 Jews enter Palestine from carefully indoctrinated countries." In this game, "the Jews and Arabs are merely pawns...
...spiritual leadership of present-day Islam, formally proclaimed the Jihad (holy war). "Know that Jihad has now become the duty for everyone which he should fulfill either through his own person or through his money," said the Ulema. "Anybody failing to fulfill such duty will be punished by Allah. Allah promised to give Paradise to Moslems who [participate]. . . . Let the echo of your voice carry from East to West the lovely word which is dear to the faithful-Jihad, Jihad, Jihad-and Allah be with...
Uncertain Days. In the tense final days of the debate, the crowd in the galleries and the speakers on the rostrum alike grew more emotional. Pakistan's Sir Mahmoud Zafrullah Khan, ending an argument against partition, threw back his bearded head and cried: "All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the Universe." In his last harangue Iraq's excitable Fadhil Jamali accused Zionists of financing a recent Communist conspiracy in Bagdad. The crowd booed, stamped and jeered...
...Indonesians did their best to make the wells productive. Fortnight ago, in accordance with a traditional dedication, the workers buried the heads of eight carabaos and eight goats among the wells, lifted their cupped hands toward heaven and intoned the solemn Alam Kabeh-"Greeting to Allah from all the world." The echo will soon be heard on the mainland when Palembang's oil begins to flow through the petroleum-starved East...
...Western thought has been kept out, Western technology has not. In many large cities, the muezzin no longer troubles to climb his tower to announce prayers. Instead, loudspeakers have been set up in the minarets, and at prayer time the muezzin rasps his La ilaha, ilia Allah over a public-address system...