ok..not sure about this, but in the interest of keeping the thread going..;)

Stalin's original name was Djugashvilli, and he was Georgian. He actually started on the road to Orthodox priesthood until he decided to give communism a shot.  Trotsky was Jewish, but Lenin was Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov. If he's Jewish, it's news to me (but, I could be wrong). Russians claim they can tell Jewish names (in Russian), but I don't know.

Stalin was formulating another purge (the Doctor's Plot), and was going to round up a great number of Jews and execute them, when he died of (possibly) natural causes.

There may be a lot of of Muslims who aren't fluent in Arabic, but the Koran (you say Quran?) is written in a specific form of Arabic, with all sorts of marks indicating  correct pronunciation. Muslims would likely need to have at least a working knowledge of Arabic, but it could bear the same analogy as 1950's Catholics and Latin. There's a phrase that's uttered to become a Muslim (I don't know it exactly, and I may be wrong, but I think it's 'there is no God but God, and Mohammed is his prophet')

There's not just one, Monolithic Islam. There's sects (Sunni, Shia, Wahabi, Druze, Dervish, Alawite, and on and on), and sects, and crosses with other religions (Sihks), and they all have different takes on portrayal of humans. I think it's a safe bet you'd have a hard time in Saudi Arabia getting a copy of Poser, but in Turkey or Malaysia, it might be a little easier. Just an educated guess on my part.

I wish I'd said that.. The Staircase Wit

anahl nathrak uth vas betude doth yel dyenvey..;)