Word: moslem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What is the faith of the world's 315 million Moslems, who follow Mohammed, the camel driver, and at the same time revere Jesus as a great spiritual leader? The world's 787 million Christians, who follow Jesus, the carpenter, and hardly ever think of Mohammed at all, need to know, for what Moslems think and do in the years ahead will make a lot of difference to the West. Yet there is a dearth of interpreters. One of the most surprising since Lawrence of Arabia is a Polish Jew named Leopold Weiss, who is now a Pakistani...
...learned of wife No. 3. Perwari, Indonesia's leading women's organization, sent out the word to other women's clubs: President Soekarno had secretly married a 3 2-year-old divorcee with five children last June; his wife Fatmawati had not even been consulted, as Moslem custom requires; Fatmawati had been made a sacrifice to the practice of "polygamy to satisfy passions." What was more. Soekarno could have no "justifiable reason" for all this since Fatmawati had "satisfied all matrimonial requirements...
Hamid Raschid, 42, and Rusi Nasar, 37, are Moslems. They knew each other in their native Russia, both contrived to escape from the Russian army in World War II, both eventually found their way to the U.S. This year they decided to go on a hadj-the pilgrimage to Mecca enjoined by the Koran upon every able-bodied Moslem...
...this was to be a hadj with a double mission. Hamid and Rusi had read with anger about the propaganda pilgrimages staged by the Russians during the hadj season. Three times since World War II, Moscow had sent Communists from among Russia's large Moslem population to Mecca. Their mission: to spread the word that the U.S.S.R. is really the nearest thing to Mohammedan paradise and that the imperialist U.S. is out to exploit all Moslems...
Everywhere the Russians went, Hamid and Rusi went too, yelling such things as: "You're no pilgrims; you're Communist propagandists! You serve the Moscow atheists!" In Mecca (pop. 90,000) there are some 13,000 Moslem refugees from Russia, so Hamid and Rusi soon had plenty of help. Ripe tomatoes and Mohammedan Bronx cheers greeted the harassed Reds in Mecca's streets, and celebrities whom the Communists wanted to meet, among them Saudi Arabia's King Saud, refused to receive them. Hamid and Rusi were happy hadjis...