Word: moslem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...furnacelike heat of the North African summer, the Moslem holy day of Aid el Kebir rolled around. On that day the heads of Moslem families sacrifice a ram in memory of Abraham's sacrifice of a male sheep in place of his son Ishmael, ancestor of all Arabs. One ram, the most important of all, is ceremoniously knifed by the Sultan, who is regarded by the Arabs and Berbers of French Morocco as their spiritual and temporal sovereign. On Aid el Kebir last week, the knife was wielded not by Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef (who had reigned since...
...this event go back years, decades, even centuries. The coup would not have been possible without the Berbers, the fierce, proud indigenes of Africa's northwest corner who in the 8th century were engulfed (but not permanently subdued) by the Islamic invaders from Arabia. The Berbers adopted the Moslem religion, but their practices were eccentric-heterodox in some ways (e.g., they eat wild boar's flesh), rigidly fundamentalist in others. Unlike the urban Arabs in Morocco, the rural Berbers have remained steadfastly pro-French...
...Pakistani tribesmen invaded Kashmir in the fall of 1947, the Maharaja fled with his jade and the necklaces from the temple gods. He paused only to declare his land a part of India, and to appoint Sheik Abdullah Prime Minister. And although Abdullah and 77% of the Kashmiris were Moslems, Abdullah organized a People's Militia that fought the Pakistanis until the Indian army flew in to the rescue. It was a desperate defense, and the Lion of Kashmir inspired it. Once, the Pakistani tribesmen lashed a young merchant to the porch of an apple shop and told...
...years Abdullah the Moslem held fast to India in the wearing dispute with Pakistan; he went to Lake Success in his caracul cap to plead India's case at the U.N. But last year, he warned Nehru that Kashmir's accession to India might "have to be of a restricted nature." Last month he flatly proposed an independent Kashmir, free from both India and Pakistan. Such talk was no help to Nehru, who was entering new talks with Pakistan (TIME, Aug. 10) to settle the dispute by compromise...
...fortnight ago, when Nehru and Pakistan's Prime Minister Mohammed Ali had parted smiling at Karachi, it had seemed that the historic conflict between Hindu and Moslem over the beautiful Vale of Kashmir might in time be stilled. Now, peace seemed suddenly very far away...