The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, January 17, 1979-Page 7 [SLAWb P~R )C T/.QTFR AT TATF T TVATi"V 1+..Lr1 FZ' l ll..7fE.J L ' . I 'ill rA 1 .it 'I'LUL L ',Isl amization'. Undaunted by the weekend snowfall, Earl Johnson shovels out his driveway. A record 216 inches of snow has Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula since November. Midwestshoveling ou By The Associated Press From Casablanca in North Africa to Karachi in Asia, Islam is asserting it- self as a counterpoint to Western in- fluence. Iran is a case in point. While Iran's current eruption ap- pears unique and confined, revolving around national political issues, the in- fluence of Islam in swaying the masses is not being ignored in other Islamic lands. SOME SECULAR leaders had already been taking note of the power of Islamic fundamentalism, realizing that even in this computer age the 13- century-old religion with about 700 million followers remains an emotional force vital for popular support. Radical Algeria enacted in its 1976 constitution that while it is dedicated to "Socialist Revolution," it still is an "Islamic State." Tunisia has aban- doned its campaign against Ramadan, the month of fasting. Libya forbids alcohol even to non-Moslems and refuses entry to anyone with a passport written only in Latin script. The legislatures in Egypt and Kuwait are debating re-introducing Shariah, Islam's sacred law that puts religion ahead of state. Last year, Pakistan began exercising such "Islamic Justice" as public whippings, and it plans to unveil intensified Islamization '~next month. SOME CONSIDER such reassertion AP Photo of Islam as a backlash to Western ways s fallen on that inevitably accompanied rapid in- dustrialization. In much of the Islamic world, the idea now is that elaborate television systems are welcome, but not if they come with Western programs. Cars are needed F but not for drag-racing. Architects are to design houses and mosques, not night. clubs. in yester- "Islam is not against moder- ed in par- nization," says El Sayed Ali el Sayed, nois Gov. head of the Egyptian Parliament's irts of the Islamic Affairs Committee who is cam- ing for a Dly. , now un- Gov. Lee disaster least 55 merger hs in the ur inches elanhlikan ches that he storm (Continued from Pagel) designed to consolidate the food service deaths in of four Hill area dorms. Massive t in Kan- student opposition was mobilized in the wa, three fight against the permanent con- Ohio and solidation, but no organized student protest has emerged against the weekend consolidation plan. Weekend consolidation, according to Snus tad, requires no new construction r e because the existing facilities are re assumed to be able to handle the weekend load because of increased student vacancy rates. tion when But most of the students present at the meeting were doubtful of the 's depar- feasibility of the plan. ds ending "This place will be utter chaos with ile of the Mo-Jo coming in here," said Markley resident and cafeteria worker Ira Fnk. ian army "I don't think the equipment can handle removing the volume." paigning to close Egypt's night spots. "When modernization aims at fulfilling. only materialistic needs while disregarding moral matters, it always ends up breaking down the structure of society." SOME ISLAMIC scholars also note that chemistry, mathematics and medicine flourished in the heyday of Islam after the seventh century. Says Sheik Mahmoud Abu Obayed of Cairo's Al Azhar University: "The West em- ployed chemistry to produce whiskey. We should shun this ... We will take what is fit for us and reject what is harmful." The Islamic world, however, is not monolithic in its assessment of Western modes - many Turks welcome them - partly because Islam lacks a center to issue binding rules the way the Vatican does. And a sharp debate rages from Gibraltar to Pakistan on the question: "How can economic and social changes SEMINAR T. MICHAEL WALKER Ohio State University Speaks on "Endorp/iies and Behaviol centrol" THURS., JAN.16 Rm. 1057., MHRI Bldg. TEA: 3:15 SEMINAR: 3:45 This seminar co-sponsored by Psycho Biology emerges be undertaken in harmony with Islamic principles?" IN THE oil-wealthy Persian Gulf, religious leaders are trying to have laws conducive to Islamic morality precede industrialization. Says one: "When we open factories, we mnist make sure no mini- or micro-skirts will be produced." Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates have joined Saudi Arabia in spearheading "Islamic banking?" chiefly to eliminate interest on loanuin keeping with the Koran, Islam's 'holy book. Yet only a generation ago Western methods and ideas were not so widely spurned. Some envied them, even - if grudgingly. TURKEY,. FOR instance, divorced religion from statecraft and for a while even ignored it. Kemal Ataturk, foun- der of "modern Turkey," abolished the Moslem fez as headgear, switched from See ISLAMIZATION, Page 10 BOWLING LEAGUES FORMING I CHICAGO (AP) - The nation's mid-' section, torn by the worst weather of the winter, began repair operations yesterday after a snowstorm that left at least 55 persons dead.. Efforts in the nation's second largest7 city centered on O'Hare International Airport, which was closed for 42 hours,1 leaving thousands of stranded passengers staying at nearby hotels] while awaiting flights home.c BY YESTERDAY morning a second runway was reopened. Normally there are four or five runways operating at the country's busiest airport. Gov. Otis Bowen of Indiana declared four northern Indiana counties a1 disaster area because of blizzard con-1 ditions. Lake, Porter, LaPorte and St.r Joseph counties received more than i4 inches of snow in the weekend blizzardt that swept through the upper Midwest.I The National Weather Service said more snow was headed for northern In- diana and Southern Michigan yester- day night and that there was a chance of more snow in other parts of the Midwest. Bowen said, "The blizzard conditions have posed a severe threat to the safety of the people and livestock and have hampered rescue and recovery operations." HEAVY SNOWS closed schools and snarled traffic throughout the Midwest. Herbert Goetsch, public works com- missioner of Milwaukee, said of the storm, "This has been the worst com- bination and accumulation of events here in the 15 years I have been com- missioner." With more than 20 inches of snow on the ground in many places and, tem- peratures that set or tied record lows before the warming trend setj day, emergencies were declar ts of Iowa and Kansas. Illh James Thompson declared pa state a disaster before head Florida vacation with his fami OFFICIALS IN Milwaukee der 30 inches of snow, asked Dreyfus to seek a federal declaration for the city. The storm has caused at weather-related deaths. Authorities counted 17 deat Chicago area, where up to fo of snow fell atop the 20.3 in arrived over the weekend. Th was the city's worst since 1967. There have been 18 reported Illinois, 15 in Wisconsin, eigh sas, five in Missouri, four in Io in Michigan and one each in Nebraska. LAST CALL-Sign-up now UNION LANES Mixed Women's and Men's 60C per game Open 10 am Mon-Fri 1pm St un Iranians hall Shah's departu (Continued from Page1) PLAY PIBALL a Union lanes & $tation: 35 machines 50C OFF on any Quiche Dinner I after 5 PM BRING THIS COUPON AND SAVE X00 OPEN: Mon, Tues10-7 Wed-Sat 10-8 - &o ad FoYa. ..Aeiuuge I 251 E. Liberty 6"S-7513 strangulation and corruption. They are angry-but in these hours of destiny one must look to the future with cold logic," he said. U.S. OFFICIALS said the shah's departure improved chances of ending the turmoil in that country but said the new civilian government of Dr. Bakhtiar had only a 50-50 chance of surviving. Bhaktiar, a courtly French-educated lawyer and longtime foe of the shah, had agreed to form a government if the monarch left the country. He allowed the shah to remain titular head of state, leaving open the possibility of his even- tual return. A nine-member Regency Council was formed to act for him in his absence. But the depth of the popular hatred of the shah-from orthodox Moslems op- posed to his Westernization of Iran, and from political activists opposed to his authoritarian rule-probably means his "vacation" will end in permanent exile, And if Khomaini's demands are met, the monarchy, an institution the Pahlavis traced to ancient Persia, will die. IN HIS FAREWELL message to his 34 million subjects, the shah appealed for the preservation of the monarchy and support for the new government: "With the vote of confidence given by the Parliament today, I hope the gover- nment will be able to make amends for the past and also succeed to lay the foundation for the future." But in Paris the shah's main op- ponent, exiled religious leader Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomaini, announ- ced plans to set up a provisional gover- nment "very soon" in his efforts to end the monarchy and establish an Islamic republic in Iran. THE 78-YEAR-OLD Ayatullah, spiritual leader of Iran's 30 million Shi'ite Moslems who form 90 per cent of the population, gave no indica he would return to Iran. But he described the shah ture as "the first step towar the 50 years of tyrannicl ru Pahlavi dynasty." Khomaini called on the Iran to prevent Americans from U.S.-made military hardwa Iran. In Washington, a F spokesman said intelligence- equipment manned by the U.S remained in place, and that WE is satisfied the Iranian mi maintaining strict securi sophisticated U.S.-made we ther control. are from Pentagon gathering military ashington litary is ty over apons in Fire in the United States caused an estimated loss of $3.75 billion in 1977, the Insurance Services Office reports. 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