“5235. To strain at a Knat, and swallow a Camel.”

Comment to Fatima Al-Dhaher who had asked Coulter about previous statements in which Coulter said Muslims shouldn't be allowed on airplanes and should take "flying carpets" instead, as quoted in " "Students divided over Coulter's cancelled speech" at CTV Ottowa (24 March 2010) http://ottawa.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20100324/OTT_Coulter_Rxn_100324/20100324/?hub=OttawaHome.
2010

"The Argentine Writer and Tradition", Fervor of Buenos Aires (1923)
Context: Some days past I have found a curious confirmation of the fact that what is truly native can and often does dispense with local color; I found this confirmation in Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Gibbon observes that in the Arabian book par excellence, in the Koran, there are no camels; I believe if there were any doubt as to the authenticity of the Koran, this absence of camels would be sufficient to prove it is an Arabian work. It was written by Mohammed, and Mohammed, as an Arab, had no reason to know that camels were especially Arabian; for him they were part of reality, he had no reason to emphasize them; on the other hand, the first thing a falsifier, a tourist, an Arab nationalist would do is have a surfeit of camels, caravans of camels, on every page; but Mohammed, as an Arab, was unconcerned: he knew he could be an Arab without camels. I think we Argentines can emulate Mohammed, can believe in the possibility of being Argentine without abounding in local color.

On a 1962 visit to India quoted in A Hero for Our Time (1983) by Ralph G Martin

Source: Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time

Fiction, Napoleon Symphony (1974)

Source: Hamlet

Source: Queste

Source: Adventures in the Nearest East (1957), Ch.1 Exploring Edom and Moab
Context: It has been said that the Bedouin Arab is a parasite that lives on the camel, and this to a great extent is true. It is the camel that carries him about; it is the camel's hair that supplies him with both his clothes and his tent; the camel's dung is the fuel of the desert; it is the camel's meat that supplies food for his banquets; the camel's milk is his beverage; and I could go on enumerating the basic gifts of the camel to his Arab master.

The Rigveda: A Historical Analysis (2000), Chapter 4 : The Geography of the Rigveda