Word: moslem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...singers were not celebrating the New Year; they were merely singing their own national anthem. After years of autocratic rule under Sultans known as the Golden Feet,* the Maldive (rhymes with small hive) Islands had just become the world's newest republic. Queen Elizabeth herself sent the Moslem islanders a message from another island, wishing them "good luck, fair winds and calm waters." A British cruiser stood by to fire a salute, and thousands of soft-eyed, coffee-colored Maldivians-the men in sarongs, the women in Mother Hubbards-crowded on to the main island of Male to join...
Murder is still all but unknown; infrequent crimes like pilfering are punished by public whipping. The gentle Maldivians are among Asia's best-fed, cleanliest and healthiest people. Once a year every good Maldivian Moslem voluntarily undertakes an act of national service-i.e., whitewashing a government building...
...thousand years ago, some earlier Moslem version of a Naguib and a Shishekly might have responded by rattling their damascene blades, leaping to Arab steeds and smiting the infidel to the cry of Allah il Allah! But now they rattled only their tongues. At a state dinner in his honor, eminent visitor Shishekly said: "We are prepared to strike back if necessary." Naguib echoed: "Ten blows for each "one in attack against...
Actually, there would be no jihad. The Koranic doctrine-which once spelled unremitting, no-quarter battle between the Abode of Islam1 and the Abode of War until Islam triumphed-has softened to a practical acceptance of co-existence of Moslem and infidel. As the Moslem world grew weaker, fanatics called louder & louder for jihad, but met less & less response. When the degenerate Turkish Sultan-Caliph proclaimed a jihad against the Allies in 1914, it was cynically dubbed the "Holy War Made in Berlin." It was the last real jihad and an utter failure...
...brought Ibn Saud riches, but dearer to a Moslem heart than even riches are sons, of whom the King has at least 35. In the homes and clubs of the Westerners, where women smiled unveiled amid the heady mixture of gin & vermouth, the young Emirs were always welcome guests. For Ibn Saud's younger sons, as for many Arabs, it was easy to forget the Koran's teachings in the face of such infidel delights. Two years ago one son went on a binge with a neighboring sheik's son, that ended in the latter...