Word: moslem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kartosuwirjo, a 46-year-old mystic, who holds court in the rugged mountain fastnesses of western Java. Against the Dutch, Kartosuwirjo's tactics were simple and effective: kill, rape, loot and burn. His religious concept is medieval: death to unbelievers; his politics uncompromising: Darul Islam wants a Moslem theocracy. When Kartosuwirjo discovered that the leaders of the newly independent Indonesia planned a secular state without him, he turned his 10,000 well-armed fanatics against the republic...
...high-spirited young men still excited by events." When Kartosuwirjo's raiders cut railroad lines, ambushed convoys, even looted the suburbs of the capital city of Jakarta, the government finally sent an army to stamp out the revolt. It soon learned that religion is stronger than politics in Moslem Indonesia. The government's Moslem troops balked at fighting their co-religionists in Darul Islam; one entire battalion deserted to Kartosuwirjo...
...Sadek paid a call on Chief Hassan el Hodeibi, head of the powerful right-wing Moslem Brotherhood. They fell to wrangling about Communism. Finally, Captain Sadek blurted out: "Oh, come now, sir. There is one thing you must realize. Our movement is Communist. We are all Communists...
...Sultan, an old Oxonian, had no reason, especially in his personal history, to like British officials, or planters, or Singapore's British businessmen. They had not openly objected to his marriage back in 1930 to Scottish-born Helen Wilson (after he had shed an unspecified number of Moslem wives, and she had shed a husband who happened to be the Sultan's personal physician), but they left him in no doubt about their views of his method of divorcing Helen. In the traditional Moslem manner, the Sultan called it off by saying "Talak [I divorce you]" the required...
...time the sons of the Sultanate, sent abroad to Ceylon or Egypt for their education, began to chafe at the strict Sunni Moslem laws which kept them virtual prisoners at home once they reached the throne. When the old Sultan died in the 19305, the islanders decided to do away with hereditary rule and elect new Sultans by popular vote. The first elected Sultan promptly abdicated. His successor, Prime Minister Amir Didi, was perfectly willing to run the government, but he chafed at the travel restrictions. So did his nephew, Amin Didi, who was designated to succeed...