Word: mohammedanized
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Happy is the Mohammedan who dies on a pilgrimage to Mecca. His soul ascends with a special sanctity to paradise. On such a soul the sloe-eyed houris lavish sweetest sweetmeats, coyest caresses, deepest delights...
...week, as he read in the papers that the Grand Mufti of the Palestine Arabs had left London for home in a huff. What if the blighter was angry at Prime Minister MacDonald's refusal to grant certain demands? Merely this-the Grand Mufti, of course, is a Mohammedan. No sooner did news of Britain's snub to the Mufti reach troubled India (see above) than powerful 'Mohammedan elements, previously lukewarm toward St. Gandhi, a Hindu, began to throw their influence on the side of his campaign for Independence. Shouts of "Long live the Mufti! Down with...
...That Mohammedan reprisals against followers of Hindu St. Gandhi did not at once break out was due to his great shrewdness. Before he was spirited off to jail he appointed as his successor that venerable Mohammedan Abbas Tyabji, onetime judge of the Baroda court. Result: at Amritsar leaders of the Sikh Mohammedans, "best fighters in India," last week declared for St. Gandhi and independence...
...atrocities at Sholapur. This city - a cotton-spinning metropolis of 12,000 - was for a time virtually ruled by various mobs, some followers of the Saint, others a nondescript rabble out to loot while looting was good. After 50 deaths, 400 woundings, disorder continued. As a crowning horror three Mohammedan policemen were seized by Hindus, drenched with gasoline and burned. Despatches disagreed as to whether they were "burned alive...
...Thieving as a Moslem," is a common term of reproach among Bengal Hindus. 'Vain as a Babu,"* is the prompt response of Bengal Mohammedans. Last week Calcutta's Mohammedan quarter shook with Homeric laughter at the latest, greatest example of Babu vanity. Potent among Bengal market-gardeners is the wealthy Roy Mukerji Das, who employs 2,000 laborers in his truck gardens, holds a virtual monopoly of the Calcutta vegetable market. Last week, pondering his own potency, the great Roy Mukerji Das sent a letter to officials of the Calcutta Markets Committee: "Honored Gentlemen: "Herewith I make application...