Word: islam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suffrage since 1934, Albania, Pakistan and Indonesia are exceptions among Moslem states. Last week at a noon prayer meeting in Cairo's Haddara Mosque, Moslem Leader Sheikh Mohamed Hamed Elfiqi described Egypt's votes-for-women movement as a conspiracy by Christians, Jews and Communists to destroy Islam...
...course from Payson Wild last year and gives an interesting, if not inspiring, complement to Fainsod's explanation of Russian policy the hour before. Arthur Darby Nock is probably the outstanding theatrical personality at this hour; his History of Religions 101b (in Harvard 4) takes up Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and also offers some outstanding guest lecturers...
Screams of "Nadra!" The Moslems of Singapore (Malays, Pakistanis, Indonesians) had followed the case with mounting religious and racial excitement. Cried Schoolmaster Mansur's enraged kinfolk: "This is a fight between European and Asian!" In the mosques the mullahs spoke of an affront to Islam. Last week the Moslem anger erupted in the most vicious rioting in Singapore memory...
...determined, organized campaign to win firm political friends everywhere; e.g., the Gaullists, the Vatican, Islam, and the Chinese Nationalists. The U.S. must not rely exclusively on formal pacts of friendship and alliance with governments: "To strengthen France's Atomic Energy Commission under the Communist, Joliot-Curie, is a defeat, not a victory; to keep even precariously alive a small detachment of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army is an unalloyed victory...