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...soldier in World War I he was assigned to the Turkish Front, was wounded, and, as a convalescent, fell in love with a Syrian Arab girl. He took her back to the mountains of Bavaria; but her lungs were not fit, and she died. Borg became a Mohammedan, studied Orientology, and eventually was persuaded by General Erich Ludendorff to undertake military intrigues in the Middle East. He disguised his name by spelling his signature, A. Borg, backwards and adding a euphonious...
Zamzam is the name of a sacred well in Mecca. In 1933 an Egyptian shipping company bought the 24-year-old, 8,229-ton British passenger steamer British Exhibitor, renamed her Zamzam, redesigned one of her holds into a mosque with accommodations for 600, and set her to carrying Mohammedan pilgrims from Suez to Jidda, the port of Mecca...
...must an omnipotent God be cajoled by prayer?" someone else shouted. "Prayer is the duty owed by creature to Creator," came the answer. The priests had to stand up and answer atheistic, Mohammedan, Presbyterian, and Jehovah's Witness heckling...
...order to make reasonably sure that archeologists of 6939 would know of the treasure consigned to them, Westinghouse sent books of record to world's leading libraries, telling how to calculate the date when the capsule should be opened, by use of the Gregorian, Chinese, Jewish, Mohammedan and Shinto calendars, and by astronomical time if no calendars survive...
...Jerusalem meanwhile, the Aga Khan's energetic son Aly Khan broadcast an appeal to all Mohammedans: "Help Britain with all your energy. Religious freedom has received what appears to be a death sentence in those countries which have fallen under totalitarian regimes, whereas it exists untrammeled in all Mohammedan countries where there is British influence...