Word: jihad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high imams of the fanatical Shiah sect of Iraq's Moslems went recently a request for a fatwa-an ecclesiastical ruling. Asked by the Society for the Defense of Palestine to determine whether Iraqis should engage in a jihad-holy war -for their Arab brothers in Palestine, the ecclesiastics of Iraq's holy cities pondered over their Koran, read the Moslem traditions, looked into precedents, ruled last week that according to the words of the Prophet a jihad was called...
...next three weeks of nightmare, as the lines bent daily backward but never quite broke, he was in an increasing agony of bewildered fear and uselessness. Said one of the mess: "This parson of ours came out, I should say, thinking he was going to preach a Jihad.* All parsons do, to a certain extent. And what happens-some of 'em turn into quite good mess caterers, and that's about all." Chaplain Warne did not even turn into a good mess-caterer. Confronted by the daily reality of war and what seemed to his unseeing eyes...