Word: moslem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...settled in a dwelling that would look good anywhere. That was the first time since I became a correspondent that I'd had such good luck." But Lubar has not always been so lucky. In Bombay in 1949, he managed to rent a comfortable apartment from a Moslem lady who had moved to England. Lubar soon began to receive fat, special-delivery letters from her, in which she complained about her domestic troubles. As the troubles mounted, the letters got thicker. Lubar read and answered them patiently, fearful that any break in the correspondence might...
Sardar Tara Singh had no cause to love the Moslems. For two bloody centuries his Sikh people had fought them for mastery of the Punjab in northern India, and in those wars, many of his ancestors died martyrs' deaths. One of them, Bhai Mani Singh, fell into the hands of the Great Mogul Aurangzeb, who first chopped off Bhai Mani Singh's fingers, joint by joint, then lopped off his limbs, one by one. Another, Baba Sukha Singh, died under Moslem knives after assassinating a Moslem chieftain who had turned the Sikhs' holy Golden Temple at Amritsar...
Under British rule, Sardar Tara Singh and his Sikh compatriots lived in uneasy peace with their Moslem neighbors. But when the British left and India was partitioned, religious violence broke out once more. Five million Sikhs abandoned their ancestral homes in west Pakistan and fled to the East Punjab, and an equal number of Moslems fled westward. Fanatics on both sides organized themselves into bands and killed as many of the fleeing civilians as they could. White-bearded Sardar Tara Singh shook his head over this massacre of the innocent...
...Kill Her!" From one such slaughter Sikh warriors returned to Tara Singh's village of Sunam, now in India, with a seven-year-old Moslem girl. Her name was Hasan Bibi, and she stood tense and terrified among them while they debated what to do with her. "Kill her," advised a Sikh refugee from Pakistan, "just as they slaughtered my children in Lahore." A man of piety disagreed: "Convert her to our holy religion and let her marry a brave Sikh boy when she comes...
Died. Asaf Ali, 64, India's first Ambassador to the U.S. (1947-48), Moslem husband of a firebrand Hindu socialist (Aruna Asaf Ali); of a heart attack; in Bern, Switzerland, where he served as Indian minister...