The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, April 23, 1979, Page page 4, Image 4
page 4 dally nebraskan monday, aprll 23. 1979 l1nA D m n Bird burners prove tliat are the real turEeys i Among poultry farmers it is com mon knowledge that the turkey is one of the dumbest birds in the world. One of the common legends concerning turkeys, factual or not, has to do with rain. It seems that turkeys, when it be gins to rain, look up to see what the heck is hitting them in the head. As they gaze at the sky they go into a kind of trance - and subsequently drown. As dumb as turkeys may be, they have nothing on a few UNL students. It is the expressed opinion of many of us that there are a few students on this campus whose IQs are much lower than turkeys, on a level parallel to the sponges and other lower invertebrates. How else can we explain the in credibly inhuman conduct of those few students at a bonfire early Fri day morning? It seems that when they had run out of furniture and various other articles of private property, they turned to five live turkeys, allegedly stolen from the university's Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources last fall. It's hard to imagine what kind of perverse pleasure can be derived from watching live turkeys burn in a bonfire. In retrospect it's a bit fright ening. If these persons enjoy burning live animals, what other diverse and sundry activities turn them on? As children we all did destructive things for which we were later ashamed. As youngsters we all abus ed animals or people in some way. The motives were never clear. It was as though we were purging ourselves or our primitive instincts, traits which were carried over from the days when men lived in caves and ate raw meat. Thankfully we outgrew our child ish beastliness - at least most of us did. Evidently there are a few per sons still stalking the night, the ancient taste of blood still on their tongues. For those primitives we hold -one fond wish - that they dis cover the meaning of' civilized justice. Perhaps justice will come next fall, around Thanksgiving, in the form of a rotten turkey or a bone in the throat Student says Islamic people are selling faith for power To: Muslim Student Association Assalamu Alaikum According to Quran, true believers in Allah should en courage and demand others to do good and discourage and stop others from doing the denied, (i.e. bad). Our prophet (m.b.uh.) said in one of his statements, "If anyone of you see a denied thing committed, then he or she has to change it using the hand (i.e. power); if not possible, using the tongue (i.e. by talking, writing, etc.); if not possible by the heart and that is the weakest faith of all." According to this point, I want to write, asking you to be aware from those who are driven by hatred, envy and backwardness accumulated through the centuries of colonialism and invasions by the many traditions and customs which have nothing to do with religion. Those who are now organizing themselves in such a way or another, selling their most precious thing (faith)-if they have any left-to take over any regime. Faith of the world As you are, we are Muslims and we are looking forward to the day that Islam will be the faith for all the world, because we strongly believe it is God's religion. Because of all of this, last Wednesday we interviewed Dr. Gamal El-badwi to talk to him about Islam and to discuss the Islamic point of view about today's problems. The sad thing that disappoints is as Arab Muslims is that we found he talked about an arabic Islamic leader the way Rabin (prime minister of Zionist government) talked about him a few weeks ago. This simply shows the strong relationship between what they call themselves (Mamie Brothers Cabinet) and the Zionist government, which occupies our most precious holy city (Jerusalem). To be specific, we talked about the true Islamic re volution in Libya, and we don't like to mention what Gamal said about the Arabic Islamic leader Brother Quaddafi. If it was logical he would have thought deeply and judged the revolution taking place nowadays in Libya as very Islamic! For all of you, for the sake of truth, I would like to point out some important facts: ... t 1) Quran, the book revealed on Muhammed and which is the word of Allah, is chosen to be the constitution of life for the country. Now Quran is either complete or in complete. I think all of us agree that it is complete. So, if it is declared to be the sole source of rules and laws, then there is nothing wrong with that. ! ' 2) Bat, Quran had always told us to follow the prophet and that is where the Sunnah comes. The Sunnah is not just sayings, talks - and speeches, it is that and work. , ... 3) Quaddafi did hot ignore Al-Hadeeth but called upon the Muslims to study the various statement, compare them with Quran and operate the national lope that Allah gave us to keep the correct and get rid of the bad tradition end habits which caused our backwardness for centuries and most of which his been inserted in our culture bythe West and lews 0 exclude the good ones, who are few). - ' " ": 4) Quran did not block our way -wherever we go. Allah set up certain rules and laws, most of which are natural insertions, Implications along which we should proceed but lie left the rest for us to work out and to discover, le Quran did not tell us to manufacture the car or build up rocks tJ but He did encourage us to look into the uni verse around U3, tad to work hard to achieve peace, strength, and prosperity. individual as long as heshe does not exploit others. At the same time, observance is paid to the group as a whole. Isn't that the human point of view of Islam and isn't that what the prophet meant when he said. "People are alike the teeth of the comb."? 6) Islam is a human religion and it can accomodate all people under the one umbrella of truth, since there is no compulsion to religion and there is no place for unneces sary prejudice. What is going on in Libya is naught but the liberation of human beings; so there will be no more slavery, no more exploitation and no more second class citizens of any kind, like women say. Facts about Quaddafi and Libya: a. ) Libya has emphasized that "arabic," the Quran language, is an international language and strived until it got accepted by the United Nations. b. ) Libya's big role in the Philippines towards the Muslims and similarly in many other nations. .c.)1he protection of the Arab and Muslim economy through revealing the exploitation of the oil companies, achieving the right standards, and protecting the sources and income. d. ) Five military American bases and two English ones, which were causing nightmares for the Arabs, were kicked out of Libya a very short, while after the revolution. e. ) Libya called for and insisted on equality of nations and the veto right of the so-called big nations to be abolished. f. )In 1874, the United States listed Libya as number enemy and may still be. g. ) Quaddafi in his last visit to the Communist coun tries, i.e., on June 1979, demanded better treatment of the Muslims there and supported them. h. ) Libya continously supported strugglers for their rights and freedoms everywhere, in Africa as well as in Asia, and in Europe as well as in the two Americas. i. ) Libya's sincerity in Arab unity and consequently Ialamic unity, supported by the following: 1) The moral and materialistic support to Arab and Muslim countries. 2) The good treatment Egyptians enjoy in Libya de spite the present bad relations between the two countries. 3) The efforts spent for immediate unity with Egypt, Syria, Sudan, Tunisia and Algeria. j.) Libya's nearing transfer to the era of people's ownership of power, wealth and arms. The concept of the armed masses, can only interpret, the real will of defending the faith of Allah. I do not want to be biased towards Quaddafi the way it has been against him; but I would say that he is a human being, he has his mistakes and there could be some mis takes in the application. However, the future will reveal this, "If Libya is on the right track of true Islam, then this experiment will be crowned with victory and success re sulting in justice and prosperity for human beings." Had! Omar Rghei Chemistry student Life's rejects gather at Swiss haven By Arthur Hoppe Another of the world's great injustices is about to be corrected. No longer will deposed dictators, cast aside like old shoes, be forced to wander the face of the earth, unwanted, unloved and underfoot. Resorts International, Pd., a Franco-Swiss combine, is now completing its long-awaited Hideaway Haven for Former Heads of State on the beautiful Caribbean island of Sain te Elbe. OiVMicr ii m ir DDODiKsKjDG n I 4 V 5) Quaddafi calls for equality, with respect paid to the "We feel that we're performing a humanitarian service by providing care for life's rejects, said M. Homaire T. Pettibon, executive director of the project. Take the poor shah and his family.-He gave Iran the best 38 years of his life and what thanks did he get? Do you realize that today he doesn't even have a home to call his own? "Or General Somoza. Nicaragua has been in his family for generations. Yet now the Nicaraguans themselves want to, throw him out and install another president; Who do they think they are, the CIA? Nor let us forget Idi Amin. The way it looks now, those ungrateful Ugandans aren't going to reward his decades of dedicated service to his country with so much as i gold watch." -Hf : Brochure! M. Pettibon said brochures were already going out to potential residents. , "One thing we don't have to worry aboutls a lack of clientele Jie said. "If necessary, we could fill the place up with former South Vietnamese generals alone." the palace-away-from-palace," as the brochures refer to it, provides the service) one might expect from such an establishment. "Surrounded by sparkling, blue, -shark-infested waters," says the brochure, The Haven offers its guests the safe and secure atmosphere they are accustomed to. 'Round the clock tank patrols are augmented by our small but highly effective air force so that .you may relax in comfort. ' "Direct telephone lines have been installed to all Swiss banks and a team of highly drained ghostwriters will be standing by to help you with your memoirs and other ghost stories." Memoirs important M. Pettibon said this last was of the' utmost import' ance. : -, "If Mr. Nixon could make 52 million writing about his petty, if sordid, misdeeds, think what Idi Amin auto biography would sen for," he said. "After all Mr. Nixon never chopped off a head in his life not literally. M. Pettibon added, however, that the Haven's main contribution would be in "psychological support ser vices." ... i ' t ... ' . i-Ar-u-"' V- A-: - 'We've found that most dictators suffer from severe post -part urn depression on being booted tout of office, he said. "We plan to greet them here with t large brass band and a big welcoming committee singing, 'For Hes a Jolly Good Fellow so that they'll feel wanted. "For the tint month or so, well surround them with grovelers night and day Grovelina is getting to be a lost art, but I feel we have tome of the best grovelers In the business on our staff. ' "U-;. .V "Best of all, each dictator will be among his own kind. Can't you see the shah and Idi Amin reminiscing about excruciating methods of torture? Or Somoza and Thieu waxing nostalgic over the fine points of corruption? In no time, theyH be their eld selves asata. . . ; M. Pettibone was asked if he didn't fed deposed dict ators should pay for their crimes. "Certainly, he said with surprise. "We're not running a charitable organizat ion. But I can't think of one these days who can't afford our services." " - - - :- ". Ccpyrkht Chronic! kVi'eAfa Company 1979