Word: islam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rumblings in Islam. Peace was not to return that easily. At week's end the revanche went on. Across half the world, Islam reverberated with sympathy and alarm. Seventeen Arab and Asian nations asked the U.N. to intervene. In Karachi, 5,000 Moslems burst through police lines and burned an effigy of "French Colonialism." The U.S., with some 20,000 Americans stationed at the four SAC air bases in Morocco, maneuvered to keep from being involved. Anxious to support the cause of Arab freedom, yet loth to antagonize NATO Partner France, Washington only expressed concern and asked the French...
...French handed him a paragraph to be inserted in a speech he was making in Tangier: "Look especially to France, lovers of liberty ..." But when it came time to deliver the speech, Ben Youssef ignored the French paragraph, appealed instead for the solidarity of Islam. The French were furious. To-teach the Sultan a lesson, they appointed an imperious and impetuous new Resident General : Alphonse Juin, topflight field soldier and veteran of long years of service in North Africa. An old-fashioned imperialist, Marshal Juin had his own Moroccan to set up against Ben Youssef: El Glaoui...
Violence that came close to actual war fare blazed across French North Africa. In an 850-mile arc from Constantine in Algeria to Casablanca in Morocco, more than 800 were killed and thousands more wounded in a spreading, sporadic rebellion that brought the wrath of Islam close to the shores of Europe. The uprisings threatened to cut off France's vast colonies in equatorial Africa. More than 300 million Moslems were already feeling their impact, from Senegal to the Celebes. In the eye of the storm were 20,000 Americans-airmen and their families stationed at the four Strategic...
...some Army generals, such as General Abdulkarim Ayadi, the Shah's own physician. Thi month's suppression of Bahai in Iran came after a steady campaign of anti-Bahai polemics by Moslem leaders during the month-long fast of Ramadan, tradtionally a time for political preaching in Islam. The Moslems forced the government to take over Bahai headquarter with troops, are hoping to close Bahai schools, have introduced a bill to forbid Bahai members to hold government jobs. Said one Bahai leader: "We are not authorized by the Bahai's noble creed to fight or retaliate...
...pocket." How much change? "A faithful secretary at the last moment slipped ?600 sterling into my pocket." On such a pittance, asked his interviewer, how had Farouk managed to live so high since getting the dirty end of the Nile in 1952? Replied Farouk: "A great chief of Islam came to my help with a noticeable sum . . . Unfortunately, that good man died two years ago and my situation has become extremely critical." Then Farouk asked his interviewer for introductions to be arranged with some Italian tycoons who might give him a job. A titled industrialist was apprised of Farouk...