Word: mohammedans
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...almost as purely Jewish as their husbands). Julius turned up with an English wife and a new name: Justin Marmaduke Gooderson. Papa Mayer and Son Pincus shook their heads but made the best of it. But when Son David-Yusel came to town disguised by his wife as the Mohammedan Prince Yusef ben Mameluke, the shock was too much for his father. Whether or not he had died laughing, he left his chief blessing to the honest son who still rejoiced in his given name of Pincus Marmelstein...
...wagon, safe from prying eyes. Ever since the War Ibn Saud has been fighting to extend his realm. By 1925 he had completed conquest of the Hejaz which contains the holy cities of Medina and Mecca, winning at the same time his greatest source of income, a toll on Mohammedan pilgrims. In 1926 the principality of Asir accepted his suzerainty and the following year Britain signed a treaty recognizing the complete independence of Ibn Saud's domains. (From 1917 to 1923 Britain paid him a total of ?542,000 in subsidies "that he be guided generally by the wishes...
...Hodeida, and on the other side lies only partially pacified Italian Eritrea. Blushing at having backed the wrong horse, Italy dispatched the destroyer Turbine. France, too, was on the defensive, fearful lest the exploits of Ibn Saud, keenest sword of Allah, put wayward ideas in the heads of her Mohammedan tribes...
...find in the article such expressions as "King Feisal, as a Mohammedan, does not greatly object to the massacre of Assyrians or other Christians;" ". . . started a slaughter of all Assyrians he could lay hands on;" ". . . few days of fanatical Mohammedan slaughter...
...referring to a Mohammedan government or people some Western writers seem to find it difficult to discard a view associated with the old Ottoman regime to which they give such sensational expression as is conveyed by the statements "massacre of Christians" and "fanatical Mohammedan slaughter." Such reference is a misrepresentation of the actual prevailing intentions on the part of Mohammedans, people and government, in Irak and other Arab countries...