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Word: islamic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World War II lonely and friendless. It had played the hard-to-get neutral, declaring war on Nazi Germany only at the last moment, in February 1945, in time to qualify for U.N. membership. It was cut off from the Balkans and the Arab world too, and isolated from Islam. No one loved the Turks. The Turks loved no one. Then the Moskofs (as the Turks call the Russians) started growling. Turkey's stout defiance of Soviet demands for joint control of the Dardanelles taught the U.S. and the Western world, in 1946 still under the dreamy illusion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: TURKEY: STRATEGIC & SCRAPPY | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

...Your coverage of late happenings in dynamite-laden trouble spots (i.e., South Africa, Islam, etc.) is most commendable, and one sure sign that everybody with "pull" is not asleep-although the vast majority of our leaders and publications seem to be held fast in the arms of Morpheus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 24, 1951 | 9/24/1951 | See Source »

...every city, in every oasis, speakers are whipping up hatred for the West. It is the hour of the nationalist fanatic and his gunman hireling. In recent years, the Moslem secret societies (the Moslem Brotherhood, the Crusaders of Islam, the Arab Sacrifice League) have murdered: one King (Jordan's Abdullah) and one President; four Prime Ministers; two cabinet ministers; one police chief, one judge, and one army commander in chief. Near misses: one Shah, one Premier. Two agents of the Moslem Brotherhood were reported last week to be trailing King Farouk on the Riviera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: The Locomotive | 9/10/1951 | See Source »

...head of an independent Palestinian state. Methods: 1) recruiting of an Arab army from the 800,000 bitter, hopeless refugees driven from their homes by the Arab-Israeli war; 2) murder and terrorism through such groups as his own "Salvation Army," the Moslem Brotherhood, the Crusaders of Islam. His most recent victim: Jordan's King Abdullah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: OTHER MIDDLE EAST LEADERS | 9/10/1951 | See Source »

...week's end, some 200 members of the fanatical Fedayan Islam charged through Teheran's streets to the Shah Mosque, knifing six policemen on the way, shouting: "Stokes, take your proposal to the grave with you." Mullah Kashani, spiritual leader of the terrorists, unblinkingly told Stokes, who came to pay a call: "Tell the British government that if Dr. Mossadeq deviates one iota from oil nationalization, the Iranian people will dispatch him to the next world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Towards the Bitter End | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

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