Word: islamic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...streets of Riyadh outside the palace, there was open muttering against the King. The keeper of Islam's holy places was being denounced by Nasser's partisans throughout the Middle East as the dog who had plotted to kill their hero. Saud duly appointed a commission of notables to investigate Nasser's charges that he had paid out $5,600,000 for the job. But then Riyadh bankers refused to answer their questions, apparently on Saud's orders, and they indignantly resigned...
...keeper of Islam's holy places may not succeed in holding his own course between the dynamic forces struggling for the leadership of Arab unity in the Middle East...
Bury the Parties. But it is easier to make a revolution than to guide it toward order and prosperity. A month after independence, a Dutch adventurer named Captain Westerling tried to overthrow the government with a mixed force of European mercenaries and native dissidents. The Darul Islam fanatics, who want to set up a theocratic Moslem state by force of arms, took over most of the mountainous area southwest of Bandung in Java; a separatist republic was established in the South Moluccas; the Amboinese, who had long supplied native soldiers to the Dutch, rose in rebellion; the people of Atjeh...
...week's end Crown Prince el Badr arrived in Damascus to tell Nasser of Yemen's adherence to the republic. Imam Saif el Islam Ahmed will keep his throne and his absolute power, and the arrangement constituted little more than a close alliance. But the battle was joined for leadership of Arab unity...
Delegates reported that Islam is making strong strides among Africans in competition with Christianity. Warned Anglican Bishop Solomon Odutola of Eastern Nigeria: "The spirit behind Islam is 'What shall I do to be saved?" The average person prefers Islam's simple answer of what to do. It appeals to him more than Christianity's deeper and more complicated method of what to be, to be saved...