Word: mohammedans
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They . . . believe that in the U.S.A. they have a true and permanent homeland where, together with their Christian, Mohammedan, Buddhist and atheist fellow Americans they may live, worship and serve as free and equal citizens. They believe that until that condition is possible in every nation, the problem of D.P. s will not be solved. The problem "is only as hard as man's heart...
White & Black Threads. Last week, for Jerusalem's Moslems, it was Ramadan, the Mohammedan month of fasting: for which the Koran commands the Faithful: "Eat and drink until ye can discern a white thread from a black by the daylight, and then fast strictly till night...
...tell as Conrad or Maugham would. Those selected in this book - 24 stories written over a span of some 30 years - remain as readable as they were salable in the '20s, when they were hot stuff in Harper's and the Atlantic Monthly. Gullah dialect, a Mohammedan marriage ceremony, the way a schooner's boom may swing when she luffs - such varied "local color" is thickly applied...
Spiritually, the U.S. seemed to have added little but jazz, a love of fast cars, slang and zoot suits upon the Spanish, Malayan, Chinese, Mohammedan and native cultures already oppressing the passive and indolent Filipinos. Politically, Destiny had been more successful. The Philippine Government was a textbook democracy...
...many habits and many peoples-ranging from the G-stringed, pygmy Negritos and the smart, West-dressed Christian Tagalogs of Luzon, the Visayans of the middle islands, to the self-sufficient, sometimes savage Mohammedan Moros of equatorial Mindanao. He speaks a bit of English, a bit of Spanish and Chinese, and a dozen dialects. His work rarely gets him more than 240 pesos ($120) a year. For 400 years he has had foreign masters. If ever he bothers to recall his history, he shrugs...