Word: moslem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Karachi, capital of the two-part country (divided by 1,000 miles of Indian territory), Premier Mohammed Ali cried: "Disruptive forces and enemy agents are actively at work" in East Pakistan, "setting Moslem against Moslem, class against class, province against center . . . Huq and his colleagues were not prepared to take the action necessary," therefore we are "taking over administration of the province to save East Pakistan...
...only one-third of the country's per capita income, has long felt itself neglected by its prosperous brother, West Pakistan. Two months ago the angry Bengalis of East Pakistan trooped to the polls in the first provincial election since independence, and routed Mohammed Ali's Moslem League from office, leaving it only ten of 309 seats in the local legislature. Into power came a comic United Front-as diverse a group of politicians as ever made common cause-ranging from an Orthodox Islamic party to a Communist outfit on the left. Atop the uneasy heap as Chief...
Scattered through Indonesia (whose 80 million people make it the world's largest Moslem state) is a minority of some 4,000,000 Christians. Last week A. M. Tambunan, leader of the Christian Party, submitted a memorandum to Parliament deploring a growing campaign of terror against his people in southern Celebes. Roving bands of Moslem terrorists in the Celebes, said he, have forced more than 6,000 Christians to adopt Islam under penalty of death. Many others have been tortured and killed. Bibles have been torn up and used as cigarette paper, while more than 20 churches have been...
Next day Ali stood before the national Constituent Assembly and flatly declined to resign: he had lost a provincial election, said he, and nothing more. He appealed to his Moslem League to stand firm until Pakistan's "Islamic" constitution can be framed (some time this summer) and national elections held. The deputies cheered Ali for his courage, but they knew as well as he did that he could no longer claim to speak for the huge Eastern segment of his country, nor for 60% of his people...
...northern India's state of Uttar Pradesh last week, Moslem trappers working in teams of four set out their nets before dawn. While three hid, one man walked to a clump .of trees. Loudly he called "Ao! ao! ao!" (Come! come! come!), and began to scatter grain. Rhesus monkeys scrambled down and followed his grain trail. When the monkeys got to the grain in the trap, a hidden operator pulled a cord and meshed them in the netting, an average dozen at a time...