Word: moslem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lebanon is a tiny, prosperous Middle East state finely balanced on the head of a religious pin. Roughly half Christian and half Moslem, it does not know which sect predominates and is anxious not to find out. It refuses to take a census and traditionally divides the top government posts so that the President is a Christian and the Premier a Moslem...
...sunset everything was ready. Some 200 Moslem Boy Scouts gathered in a schoolyard, ready to be issued their torches: tin cans stuffed with oil-soaked sawdust and mounted on poles. In their midst appeared a burly, bearded nationalist name Taha al Waly, a follower of the fanatic ex-Mufti of Jerusalem. He proposed that the paraders detour under the windows of President Camille Chamoun, a Christian...
...days later, Lebanon's horrified Christian President and Moslem Premier met, agreed unanimously to ask the Parliament to ban all further outdoor religious ceremonies. And from now on, they agreed, between the hours of 7 p.m. and 7 a.m., no churchbells would be allowed to toll, or loudspeakers to crackle from minarets...
Abdul Latif, a 32-year-old Cairo tinsmith, a Moslem Brother since 1938. Two months ago a secret Brotherhood group had picked him to kill Nasser. His confession was all the regime was waiting for; at last the cops felt free to go after the powerful Moslem Brotherhood, the last legal opposition to Nasser...
...that stands today as democracy's strongest bastion in the Middle East. This was the achievement of one man, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. After World War I he raised a new army and drove out the Greeks, who were occupying Turkey with Allied backing. He threw out the established Moslem religion, warred on the fez and the veil, forced Western clothes, laws, letters and institutions on 16 million bewildered Turks. Through all the years of dazzling leadership, this bitter, sullen, debauched son of the Salonika slums never seems to have loved a soul; he abandoned his innumerable women...