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Startling claims poured from the jailed leaders. Mme. Mittie Maud said she had four million followers, all taught that they are citizens of Liberia, hence not subject to Selective Service. Elijah Muck-Muhd's faithful knew themselves for Moslems, excused from the draft by direction of Allah in the person of his prophet, Muck-Muhd. Hammurabi's disciples learned they were members of a Jap army within the U.S., that Negro hopes of betterment depended upon Jap victory. All of them, according to an FBI spokesman, had lavish and expensive costumes, plenty of money. The twoscore black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Takcihashi's Blacks | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

...population figures by religions: Hindus, believing in reincarnation, caste, polytheistic pantheism, soulforce: 239,195,140; Moslems, believing there is no god but Allah: 77,093,000; Sikhs, believing in a hodgepodge of Hindu and Moslem creeds: 4,335, 771; Christians: 6,296,763; Jains, believing all animals are sacrosanct: 1,251,000; Buddhists, believing in the escape from suffering through the "Eightfold path": 12,786,806; Parsis, believing in Ormazd, lord of light and goodness: 109,000: tribal (mainly primitive) religions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Rains And Riots | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

...discounted any chance of Moslem fifth columnism in India and gave as proof that most of the Army's volunteers come from Mohammedan regions, while the majority of Britain's Libyan forces are worshippers of Allah...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIPPS' MISSION NO FAILURE, RAISED MORALE, RAMAN SAYS | 5/15/1942 | See Source »

...Sikh scholar, said last week: "The cow is sacred to the Hindus and pork repulsive to Moslems. . . . The Hindus are rather noisy in their ritual and greet an interesting variety of mute gods with a blare of conch shells and din of gongs, while the Moslems' worship of Allah is austere and silent and includes a bit of healthy physical exercise. The Moslem is circumcised, while the Hindu is not; the Moslem clips his mustache in a certain way, while the Hindu does not. The Hindu wears a wisp of long hair on the top of his head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: At Stake: A New World | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

Answer. In Buffalo, N.Y., Harran Ali asked Allah to get his wife out of the reformatory, made a burnt offering of his coat, afire on a pole in front of the County Hall. Result: a $5 fine for disorderly conduct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 22, 1941 | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

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