Word: mohammedan
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...This college is for all conditions and classes of men without regard to color, nationality, race or religion. A man may be white, black, or yellow; Christian, Jew, Mohammedan or heathen, may enter and enjoy all the advantages of this institution for three, four or eight years, and go out believing in one God, many Gods, or no God. But it will be impossible for one to continue with us long without knowing what we believe to be the truth, and our reasons for that belief...
Within the blood-colored walls of that fantastic city, like a queen bee in the great swarming hive of India, sat the ancient Mohammedan King of Delhi, a company pensioner, who suddenly found himself the unwilling leader of what today might be called a national war of liberation. As the mutineers in their elaborate British uniforms streamed into his city, all the pious old gentleman could do was to ask them not to loot too much (most of the British in Delhi were massacred in the first few days succeeding the mutiny) and consult the entrails of a goat...
...back of Emerson Hall, one fulltime secretary, and its director, Sorokin. Its endowment funds are spent mostly for sociology experts who have helped collect material ranging from the biographies of 4,600 Christian saints to data on the ancient techniques of Yoga and Sufism (a system of a Mohammedan mysticism). In addition experiments have been made with subjects ranging from Harvard and Radcliffe students to patients and nurses at the Boston Psychopathic Hospital...
...witness to the fact that in 1924 the Soviet border was completely closed and that no pilgrimage was allowed. A few years later (1928-30), the mosques were either torn down or used for different purposes. The clergy was liquidated or sent to Siberia; so 40 million Mohammedans in the Soviet Union were forced to do their worshiping secretly . . . During World War II, Russia pretended to show the free world that the Mohammedan behind the Iron Curtain had religious freedom. But this was utterly false according to testimony from Mohammedan refugees...
...Rusi went too, yelling such things as: "You're no pilgrims; you're Communist propagandists! You serve the Moscow atheists!" In Mecca (pop. 90,000) there are some 13,000 Moslem refugees from Russia, so Hamid and Rusi soon had plenty of help. Ripe tomatoes and Mohammedan Bronx cheers greeted the harassed Reds in Mecca's streets, and celebrities whom the Communists wanted to meet, among them Saudi Arabia's King Saud, refused to receive them. Hamid and Rusi were happy hadjis...