Word: islam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mosques and market places of Damascus, those who remembered the good old days when a man's wives were ''The Tethered Ones" shook their heads, quoted the Koran, muttered in their beards. Whence came these foreign notions in the heads of Islam's young women? Through their charitable "Drop of Milk Society" they had boldly arranged a gala ball at a French officers' club, boldly announced that they would discard their veils and dance...
Centuries ago the Roman Catholic Church branded the Copts as heretics, notably because they believed that Christ's "divinity was not separated from His manhood for one moment or for the twinkling of an eye." Islam diminished but never drowned the Coptic influence. In the 17th Century, Jesuits failed to win the Ethiopian Copts to the Roman Catholic fold. Now the Egyptian Copts fear that if Haile Selassie's demand is denied, he may align the Ethiopian Copts with a rival body-perhaps the Greek Orthodox Church...
From dawn to dusk each day this month good Moslems may not eat, drink, smoke, use perfume, apply leeches, indulge in sex. It is the month of Ramadan, holiest in Islam's year, and conscientious observance of its requirements can atone for a solid year of sinning...
...deposition of a Moslem ruler by a Christian power would impress the Tunisians and their fellow Moslems in Africa and the Near East remained a question. Axis propaganda had stimulated anti-Zionism throughout Islam, and had left Moslem nationalism aglow. General Giraud's firm stand last week was probably the wisest policy for the moment, but it did not allay the Moslem suspicion that the Allies have only one war aim-to chase out the Axis, insure a safe base for military operations and keep what they have won in battle...
...India and elsewhere he is an authentic Incarnation of God-in a class with Buddha, Krishna, Christ. His unique claim to fame is that he was the first prophet in history actually to practice the ways not only of all the principal Hindu sects but also Christianity and Islam...