Word: moslem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Governor Davis appointed to the insular Senate Jamalul Kiram, 66-year-old Sultan of Sulu, to represent the Philippines' Moslem population. Occupant of an ancient throne that once had wide temporal powers, the Sultan used to have 50 wives. Now he has but three. Representative of the Islands' pagan tribes in the House is Dr. Hilary Clapp, full-blooded Igorot...
From the roof a zealous Moslem priest espied this sacrilege, howled to the rabble: "A woman has desecrated the shrine...
Next day was Friday, the Moslem sabbath. To a mosque jammed with zealots the priest raged against "accursed Christians and the adoption of their vile habits by some Persian women." With the tirade at its height, suddenly the congregation was startled by the ring of spurs on the stone mosque floor...
...travelled the hard road from private soldier to Shah of Persia (TIME, July 22, 1929). He does not propose to be another Amanullah of Afghanistan, to be driven out for being "too modern," "too Christian" (TIME, Jan. 21, 1929). He is not a Christian. With relentless military stride His Moslem Majesty made for the Moslem priest...
...Twelve Moslems were killed by Hindus in the Mochi district last week "for insulting a Hindu sacred cow," and Hindu-Moslem feeling began to run so high that St. Gandhi threatened to go on "hunger strike" until both communities calmed down...