Word: islamic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nasser's Voice of the Arabs raged that Kassem was an apostate whose followers had torn up the Koran outside his office door shouting: "Death to Arab nationalism, death to Islam!" Nasser, who hitherto has hesitated to make a jihad, or holy war, against his Arab enemies, now invoked this highly charged cry against the Kassem regime and its atheist Communist comrades. (Use of such dangerous religious passions for political purposes may be effective against the Reds, but it also upsets Lebanese Christians and other non-Islamic Arabs...
...four short months Guinea has apparently learned that independence is a relative thing. It will not be easy for Africa to be completely itself, for no other continent has been so swept by foreign influence. Islam stretches not only across its top, but deep into the south-as far as the lower reaches of the Belgian Congo. Northern Nigeria is as rigidly Moslem as Saudi Arabia, and political meetings in Guinea come to a halt at sundown, when everyone troops out, shucks shoes, and bows to Mecca. Throughout most of Africa the ubiquitous East Indian minority, tirelessly busy at trade...
...wife going to Iran, a minister on his way to the American Church in Paris. Conferees listened to experts on such varied subjects as the mission work of the church, on the implications of the industrial revolution in Asia for Christianity, on population problems, "cultural empathy," and on Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism and Roman Catholicism. Again and again they returned in their discussions to the problem of changing the stock image of the American as a materialistic go-getter...
...confusion of my enemies." He was not halfhearted in his piety toward the stuff. Off and on, over 20 years, he polished a poem in praise of wine. He found it a symbol of the good things of life denied by Puritan religions or by "Islam, furtive enemy of the soul." He said: "May I reach the Kitchen in Heaven and drink with St. Christopher"-although he believed St. Christopher to be a "pure legend...
Last year the girls were required to attend five of the Sunday morning services each semester, but this brought complaints, especially from Jewish students. Roman Catholics and those of foreign faiths such as Islam may be given exemptions, since visiting clergymen of those religions are never represented at the Sunday services. Occasionally a rabbi presides, however, and the Jewish students had to attend...