Word: islam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...languages, Taylor sprinkled his testimony with grace notes such as a quote from Greece's Third Century B.C. historian Polybius ("It is not the purpose of war to annihilate those who provoke it, but to cause them to mend their ways.") and a comparison of Communist expansionism with Islam's "flaming sword" policy...
...dozen cultures has piled up alongside its ancient caravan routes. In 1500 B.C., the Aryans swept through to invade India. In the 4th century B.C., Alexander the Great's phalanx conquered the land. In turn, the Indians bearing Buddhism, the Persians, the White Huns, the Arabs preaching Islam, the Mongol hordes led by Genghis Khan all used Central Asia as steppingstones to empire...
...brunt of the summer's fighting, war readiness has become a way of life. In Lahore, scene of much of last summer's fighting, hardy Pakistanis last week nibbled sweets and kept their horse-driven tongas ready to carry rice and curry to frontline soldiers. "Sons of Islam are meant to fight," said one, "not to allow their guns to rust...
...National Security, Chris, tian Anti-Communism Crusade, Christian Crusade, American Committee for Protection of Foreign Born, Labor Youth League, Civil Rights Congress, Communist Party, Jefferson School of Social Science, New York School for Marxist Studies, Young Communist League, American Peace Crusade, National Council of American-Soviet Friendship, Nation of Islam, International Workers Order, Washington Bookshop Association, Fair Play for Cuba Committee, or the Southern Conference for Human Welfare...
...Promoting Christian Unity. Between the second and third sessions of the council, however, conservatives succeeded in getting a new draft that softened the references to Judaism and incorporated them within the framework of a longer declaration outlining the church's attitude toward other non-Christian faiths-including Islam. This draft was denounced violently by a number of cardinals, notably Boston's Richard Gushing, and was sent back to the secretariat for further revision. The bishops then approved in principle another draft that once more expressly said that neither the Jews of today nor those of the time...