Word: islam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whose basic tenets is that no likeness of the Prophet may be reproduced, and protests had been made to the Egyptian government because the likeness had been permitted to appear in a magazine printed in Egypt. Snedaker explained that TIME'S editors had meant no offense to Islam...
Iftikharud-Din later got himself elected, against Jinnah's opposition, president of the West Punjab section of the Moslem League. This leftist victory, declared a conservative Moslem leader, "has created a serious danger to the Moslem League and . . . Pakistan. There can be no compromise between Islam and any other world philosophy or life system, be it communism, fascism, capitalism or parliamentarianism...
...minarets, Napoleon's artillery have chipped its walls, and a succession of foreign masters have ruled Egypt. Al Azhar has survived them all-even Saladin, who destroyed its library and exiled its faculty. The university's 32-man Senatus is the highest religious and educational authority in Islam; its rector is the nearest thing to a Moslem pope...
...London Mosque, leader of the Ahmadiyya Moslems in Great Britain, crave the hospitality of the columns of your magazine-to expose the serious injury that has been caused by the publication of a picture of Mohamed (may peace and blessings be on his name) the Holy Prophet of Islam, and ... by unfortunate remarks in the body of the article headed "India-Pakistan" in the issue...
...painting of portraits is not approved by Islam and the idea of making a picture of the Holy Prophet is absolutely repugnant and extremely abhorrent to the Moslems. But the slanderous picture which has appeared in your magazine depicts ideas that have no foundation in Moslem history, and the inscription below is simply exasperating. . . . Mohamed's (may peace be on him) sword never took the life of a single human being. He preached peace...