Word: mohammedane
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...first solemnly declaring that he disbelieves in anarchism and polygamy, and, once inside, he must also disbelieve in communism. In Japan it is illegal to express disbelief in the divinity of the Mikado. It will thus be seen that a voyage around the world is a perilous adventure. A Mohammedan, a Tolstoyan, a Bolshevik, or a Christian cannot undertake it without at some point becoming a criminal or holding his tongue about what he considers important truths. This, or course, applies only to steerage passengers; saloon passengers are allowed to believe whatever they please...
...birth of Venizelos, two Greek Orthodox priests and two Mohammedan hodjas had prayed in four different languages for two days and two nights that he might have a long life; for his mother had lost her first two children. On the third day, now 60 years ago, a boy was born and a priest named Yarotheos (old god) on account of his miraculous powers baptized him, saying: "I baptize, thee Eleutherios (Liberty), for thou shalt deliver our long suffering Crete from the tyranny of the Turk...
Among the most apposite remarks Mr. Price made are those on religion. The relations of the British Crown, as the greatest Mohammedan Power on earth, with India while fighting Mohammedan Turkey are summed up: "One sometimes wonders, on that exalted plane on which Sovereigns dwell, what the Emperor of India has been saying to the Defender of the Faith...
...basis lies old antipathy between Moros and Christian Filipinos, and the objection of the former to being governed locally by the latter. This is the principal basic cause of unrest in the Moro Provinces. The Mohammedan period of religious devotion, which lasts from now until the tenth of the new moon, has served to accentuate the situation...
...League demonstration of 1896, which resulted in the overthrow of the usurper, Aguinaldo, President McKinley appointed a commission to investigate conditions in the Philippines. They reported a lack of education and "linguistic diversities," plus a Moro element, a small but violent portion of the total population which professed the Mohammedan religion in opposition to the Catholic...