Word: islamic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lodges. Four out of five delegates went to the convention straight from the heat of the mills. Nearly half of them were old company union men who had helped lead their organizations into C. I. O. Daily for four days they packed themselves into the smoke-blue auditorium of Islam Grotto in Pittsburgh's slummy North Side, across the Allegheny River from the Golden Triangle. That the S. W. O. C. had picked up a trick or two from Fascist and Communist propagandists was evident from the huge posters of brawny steelworkers, the heroic pictures of Phil Murray...
...religious organization in Palestine), hitherto under the Grand Mufti's control. This organization has been carrying on charitable work to the value of $1,000,000 per year. When the Christians placed these funds under the direction of a board consisting of two Christians and one Mohammedan, all Islam felt a sense of outrage and all over Palestine irate Arab groups leaped into action...
Italy was the only Christian country whose newsorgans all presented this Palestine story of last week as it is seen by the eyes of Islam. Moslems in Italian North Africa, who recently were invited by Il Duce in person to hail him as "The Protector of Islam" and did so (TIME, March 29), last week adopted resolution after resolution of solidarity with Moslems of Palestine. At Addis Ababa, the Italian Viceregal Government's censors passed dispatches announcing that "Leaders of the Moslem community in Ethiopia" have addressed to the League of Nations expressions of "the strongest disapproval...
...Popolo d'Italia, personal newsorgan of Protector-of-Islam Benito Mussolini, editorialized: "No one ever entrusted anyone with a mandate to sow destruction and massacre in the Holy Land. . . . Whole streets are razed as punishment for acts whose perpetrators the British authorities are unable to detect and do not wish to investigate. . . . Laws which for thousands of years have guaranteed Justice to civilized mankind are openly trampled on and innocent citizens are punished for deeds for which they bear no responsibility. . . . The news from Palestine cannot but arouse a sense of horror throughout the civilized world...
Toward the close of Queen Victoria's reign arose the present agitation to create a Jewish state in Palestine, but for decades the grip of Turkey and therefore of Islam on the land blocked Jewish efforts. The crackup of Germany and her Turkish ally, with General Allenby capturing Jerusalem as a sort of 20th Century Crusader in December 1917, was the decisive moment, because five weeks earlier British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour had made his historic Declaration: "His Majesty's Government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will...