Word: moslem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prestige that made the British insist on keeping and maintaining unnecessary big forces in the Canal Zone . . . Under the present circumstances the base is of no use whatsoever so long as it is surrounded by a hostile population who are full-heartedly supported by the Arabs and all Moslem nations. In time of war it will be reduced to a pocket which has to defend itself against the Egyptian people. The people of the Middle East have declared that the defense of the Middle East is their own concern. They are anxious to take the complete responsibility of the defense...
...change ran into some hot Senate opposition. Ohio's G.O.P. Senator John W. Bricker called the agreement "a callous disregard" of the rights of U.S. servicemen. Suppose, he warned, an American were tried for a minor violation before a Communist French judge, or a Moslem magistrate who sentenced according to Islamic law.* A tourist or commercial traveler voluntarily submits himself to the law of a country he visits. A conscripted soldier is subjected to a law he may have had neither duty nor opportunity to learn, and no share in making...
...prostrated themselves toward Mecca (compass bearing from Toledo: 100° true), chanting, "Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar" (God the Almighty). Blackrobed imams read from the Koran and repeated with the faithful, "La Ilaha Illal-Lah" (There is no God but God). The second annual convention of the International Moslem Society, with some 500 Moslems gathered from 45 states and five Canadian provinces, was under...
...business sessions, the president and founder of the International Moslem Society, Abdallah Igram, 30, a grocery-store operator from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, led delegates through a simple agenda. One executive board decision: to pay the cost of special identification tags for American Moslems in military service which will read, "I am a Moslem. There is but one God, and Mohammed is his prophet." Igram was re-elected president for another year. Anxious to unite all scattered North American Moslems (estimated at 32,600) in his society, he disclaims militant proselytizing: "We don't want to convert others, just inform...
...Their cultural values were formed during a thousand years of Brahminist-Buddhist teaching, culminating in the great, 14th century Hindu-Javanese civilization of Madjapahit. Then came the swift, peaceful penetration of Islam. Securing a firm but gentle grip on the islands (Indonesia is now the world's largest Moslem nation), Islam took on a subtle duality. Moslem mosques assumed Hindu temple forms; followers were called to prayer on Oriental gongs. While putting on the cloak of Islam, the Indonesians remained essentially Eastern; nor has their character changed under the plastic waterproof of the West...