Word: fanaticisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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His selfless imitation of Christ could not fail to impress the Tuareg. They called him the Great White Marabout (holy man), and kissed the hem of his robe. But by the middle of World War I, a group of fanatic Moslems, incited by the Turks, had marked him for capture...
Slaves at the Bottom. Strong-willed Daniel Malan, returned to power for another five years, is now 78. His heir apparent is even more fanatic: Johannes Gerhardus Strydom, 59, the Nationalist Minister of Lands. The so-called Messiah of Waterberg is hailed by his supporters as "First President of the...
"As Soon as Weaned." Augustus Hare, author of Berks, Bucks and Oxfordshire, Walks in Rome, and other popular Victorian travel books, was an unwanted child. When his godmother asked to adopt him, his delighted mother wrote back: "How very kind of you. Yes, certainly the baby shall be sent as...
It was a minor revolution which swept this capital of the fertile Punjab province-a revolution engineered by fanatical mullahs against the Pakistan government. Five and a half years ago, when millions of frightened refugees were pouring into newly created Pakistan, the mullahs were the people's leaders. They...
The Hungry Mobs. Last month a religious group known as the Ahraris, influenced by fanatic mullahs, demanded that the government declare half a million members of the Ahmadiya sect to be non-Moslems. The Ahmadiyas are a close-knit and unpopular group, followers of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, who at the...