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Muslim: ‘Verses’ insults Mohammad
By Richard Tijerina
STAFF WRITER
Muslims are most offended by
“The Satanic Verses” because of the
language used in reference to the
prophet Mohammed, not because of
its attack on Islam, a representative
of the Muslim Students Association
said Thursday.
Hamed Ghazali, central zone rep
resentative for MSA and a professor
at Kansas University, spoke at a
Muslim Student Association’s cri
tique of Salman Rushdie’s novel
"The Satanic Verses.”
“My feeling as a Muslim is he has
to be punished severely for the lan
guage he’s using to hurt other peo
ple,” Ghazali said.
"I don’t blame anyone who says he
should be killed. Muslims try accord
ing to the law, not feelings. I won’t
feel sorry if someone kills him.”
II 1 a 1 !' 5 £y° to ! Iah Khomeni has
called tor Rushdie’s death.
Muslims object most to two chap-
ter j ‘"the book, titled “Mahound”
and Return to Jahilia,” in which
Mohammed is portrayed as oppor
tunistic and ready to compromise
tor his personal advantage, Ghazali
said.
Ghazali said Muslims are most up
set with the wording of the book —-
wording which they think is often
sacreligious.
I he word ‘offensive’ is not
enough, Ghazali said. “As you go
further into the book, Muslims be
come angry because of the language
in the book. I started believing the
book is attacking Islam.”
I he Islamic faith grants certain
freedoms of speech as long as you do
not hurt others, and this is where
Rushdie’s book becomes offensive,
Ghazali said.
“We have freedom of speech in Is
lam,” he said. “You are allowed to
say whatever you want to say. How
ever, you are not allowed to hurt
others, to use pornography or to
hurt your neighbor.”
Ghazali read several passages
from the novel which he said offend
Muslims, including the renaming of
their prophet Mohammed, the de
scription of the prophet Abraham as
a “bastard” and the description of
Mohammed as drunk, nude and
having sexual relations with a
woman.
Ghazali said although Muslims
can respond to criticism of Islam,
they do not like vulgarity toward
others or attacks on their faith and
revered personalities of Islam.
Rushdie knew controversy would
arise over his book, Ghazali said.
“Salman knew what was going to
happen to him,” he said. “He pre
dicted it right here in this book. He
was completely aware. He was fully
conscious of what he was doing.”
Ghazali said that in the book,
Rushdie writes of the problems of a
poet named Baal, who writes against
Islam. The Muslims manage to cap
ture him and sentence him to death.
Ghazali said that in Islam, three
crimes are punishable by death:
when a Moslem kills someone, when
a Moslem is married and commits
adultery and when a Moslem
changes his religion before reachine
maturity.
Salman Rushdie would be tried
for apostacy — leaving his religious
faith, Ghazali said. He said the only
question surrounding the charge is
when Rushdie officially turned his
back on the Islamic faith.
Ghazali said there is no problem
changing religion once a person has
reached maturity.
Ghazali stressed that although he
would not be sorry if someone killed
Rushdie because of his book, he was
not advocating anyone to do it. He
also said the majority of the Islamic
faith is not calling for Rushdie’s
death.
“I would say we (Muslims) believe
Salman should not be killed,” he
said. “We would like to have a fair
trial for him.
“This trial should be done in a
Muslim country, but we would be
satisfied with having it elsewhere.
We respect international law and
would not violate it.”
Endowment will fund
future Aggie Musters
By Juliette Rizzo
STAFF WRITER
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The Aggie Muster Endowment
Fund has been established to
raise funds to support the contin
uing tradition of Aggie Muster.
Scott Creecy, 1989 Muster en
dowment sub-committee co-
chairman, said the program was
established in September as a
means for funding future Aggie
Musters.
The Aggie Muster Committee
is allotted funds by Student Gov
ernment. Creecy said the funds
have been sufficient in the past,
but in planning this year’s Mus
ter, the committee determined
that to maintain the high quality
of the ceremony, other sources of
funding are necessary.
Creecy said additional funds
are needed to increase local and
nationwide public relations ef
forts and to provide a memorable
reception for family members of
those honored during Muster.
As a student organization, the
committee is exempt from the
rental costs of G. Rollie White
Coliseum, but set-up costs for the
ceremony deplete most of the al
lotted funds. Creecy said dona
tions for programs, flowers and
candles, the most crucial items to
the ceremony, are not always
guaranteed, causing the need for
back-up funds.
The endowment, set up by the
Texas A&M Development Foun
dation. enables donated funds to
be invested and to accrue interest,
which will be applied to each
year’s ceremony. The portion of
the interest not used for the ac
tual cermony is reinvested and
added to the original invested
funds, which are never with-
See Muster/Page 5
Bryan applies for HUD grant
to build shelter for homeless
Clocks move up
1 hour Sunday
to ‘save’ light
It’s that time again.
Daylight-saving time h upon
us.
Although it only happens twice
a year, it seems that we just re
cently turned them back one
hour. But now it’s time to turn
them ahead one hour. We’re talk
ing about clocks.
Tomorrow night before you go
to bed, or at 2 a.m. Sunday for
those of you still up, turn your
c/ocks AHEAD one hour.
By turning clocks ahead one
hour, the sun will rise and set
later in the day, thereby “saving”
daylight.
One of the major reasons be
hind daylight-saving time is to
provide more time for afternoon
and evening activities during the
spring and summer months so
you can get out there and enjoy
the “extrai” daylight.
By Kathy Haveman
CORRESPONDENT
Bryan homeless women and children could have a
shelter in which to live if the U.S. Department of Hous
ing and Urban Development awards Twin City Mission
a $200,000 grant.
Twin City Director Bob Good applied for the grant
March 29. He said he has chosen a multi-building site in
Bryan, the exact location of which he could not reveal
until the deal has been closed.
He said he wants to renovate the buildings to create a
shelter for women and children only.
Twin City now has a shelter in Bryan that accommo
dates homeless men and homeless families. An exten
sion of Twin City houses battered women.
The mission has $90,000 and must raise a minimum
of $140,000 in addition to the grant to cover building
costs. Resale shops will help raise revenue, but Good
said he also will appeal to civic organizations, private in
dividuals and corporations for financial support.
After HUD announces its decision concerning the
grant on July 10, Good will have six months to buy the
land and buildings and occupy the site.
“If we agree with the owners on a price, we’ll be able
to close within 30 days,” he said. If negotiations fall
through, Good said he’ll be looking for a different loca
tion, possibly a 50-unit motel.
The structures on the preferred site are not con
nected, which will facilitate the separation of the 150
women and children into individual problem groups.
Good said he wants to separate substance abusers,
the mentally ill, women with older children and those
with young children into different buildings. Those
within each section will support one another because
they share a common problem, he said.
“It’s awfully hard to get sympathy from someone
who’s never had your problem,” Good said.
Homeless women and children will be able to stay at
the shelter a maximum of 24 months. During that time
they will be counseled, taught basic skills such as how to
balance a checkbook and will be required to save
money, Good said.
He wants to help the women build a nest egg in order
to pay the deposit on an apartment when they leave the
shelter, while teaching the women skills that will enable
them to get a job, he said.
Good said he is optimistic about getting the grant be
cause HUD recently removed restrictions that made it
difficult for private, non-profit organizations such as
Twin City Mission to receive money.
“They (HUD) have more money now than ever befo
re,” he said.
Part of Joe Routt
closes Saturday
for three weeks
A small section of Joe Routt
Blvd. on the Texas A&M campus
will be closed for approximately
three weeks starting Saturday
morning, Tom Williams, director
of parking, transit and traffic,
said Thursday.
Williams said both lanes of the
street will be closed.
The section affected is be
tween Coke and Throckmorton
Streets.
Traffic will be altered in the
area of the Military Sciences
Building. Williams said traffic
normally using Coke or Throck
morton streets to enter or exit
the Memorial Student Center
area from Jersey St. also will be
affected.
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