Word: moslem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aside from Turkey, the Moslem world finds itself in Africa, Arabia, Persia, Russia, Afghanistan, India, China. In fact 95% of the 220,000,000 Mahammadans in the world live outside of Turkey...
...police authorities of Constantinople recently issued an order directing all Christian institutions to observe the Moslem Sunday-Friday...
...fell into a state of anarchy and was invaded by Italy, Serbia, Montenegro, Greece, Austria. Her independence was again declared in 1917 and since then the Government has been in the hands of a Constituent Assembly and a Council of Regents, composed of representatives of the following religions : Bektashi Moslem, Sunni Moslem, Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox Catholic. Since 1920 Albania has been a member of the League of Nations...
...vigorous occurrence, Mr. Stevenson takes at least two high-grade heroes, the same number of carefully selected villains, and projects them together among the sinister wilds of the Atlas mountains. An exchanged seat on a train, a mysterious warning, a veiled lady, a crazy archaeologist, a tangle of Moslem intrigue, all give infinite opportunity for slaughter, mystery, catastrophe. The two heroes are respectively Irish, and French; the villains are perfectly valid cinema sheiks. A capital tale for the weary commuter...
...know that the liquor traffic in the Ottoman Empire has been in the hands of native and Western Christians. . . . The city of Islam has been under Christians' control for four years and the sight of it has been such a rebuke as Christendom has not suffered since the great Moslem reformation first purged the decadent Eastern Christendom of the Middle Ages. ... I believe that American Protestantism and British Nonconformism have their greatest task still ahead of them and that that task is nearer home than Islam. I believe that task is nothing less than the salvage of the practice...