Word: allah
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...told him of troubles, of Soviet inquiries and insults. Once, last winter, they brought him a Soviet magazine, showed him a cartoon -Bolshevik Zinoviev climbing up a ladder into the clouds with a sledgehammer ready to annihilate five trembling figures which were labeled: "Jesus Christ, God the Father, Jehovah, Allah, Satan." But each bore the face of Tikhon. The old priest smiled: "Donskoi was before the Romanovs, and after Zinoviev will be Donskoi...
About the time of Martin Luther (1483 to 1546), there arose among these people a prophet protesting against Hinduism on the one hand and Muhammadanism on the other. His name was Nanak. He taught that God was neither Allah nor Ram, but simply God. He rejected the Hindu idols, caste-system, concremation of widows (suttee), pilgrimages to sacred rivers (TIME, Feb. 9). He forbade wine, tobacco, infanticide. His essential difference from Christianity was a belief in transmigration and fatalism...
...Black Sea pours, its waters down the Bosporus into the blue Mediterranean and divides the West from the East. Here is the Near East, with its diversified aromas, its medley of tongues and faiths, its rowdy bazaars, its quaint assortment of dress, its veiled women-a land where Allah is worshipped and Muhammad is his Prophet. Here, too, are five American Colleges fearlessly imparting learning to various people of various races, of various religions...
...there is another attitude which can be taken as to the interaction of war and religion. In a recent volume Mr. Bakeless of Williams writes: "It is but a few years since . . . Russian, Austrian, and German troops were marching in the names of gods as truly tribal as Allah and Yahweh ever were, . . . and the Jehad, or Holy War, was proclaimed in the Moslem world. Even a "D man" in History 1 recognizes that it was religion that set Europe aflame with hostilities after the Reformation and sent war and misery to the Indian empires of the West. Christianity, like...
...intervention of a third party between the Faithful and Allah...