Word: moslem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born. To Iran's Princess Fatmeh Pahlevi, 23, who in 1950 remarried her husband in a Moslem ceremony in order to win back her royal prerogatives from her miffed brother, the Shah, and California Importer-Exporter Ali Vincent Lee Hillyer, 26, who, to help his wife, renounced Roman Catholicism and took no God but Allah: their first child, a son; in Santa Monica. Name: Cayvon Pahlavi. Weight: 7 Ibs. 110z...
...august council of ulema (professors) of Cairo's Al-Azhar, the oldest existing Moslem university, issued a solemn declaration against coeds. Coeducation, said the council, is nothing short of promiscuity, "unsuitable to the Islamic way of life." Furthermore, added the scholars, "this situation has turned certain male students from true scientific activity...
...from The Netherlands. A burly, moonfaced lone wolf who was born in Istanbul 32 years ago of a Dutch father and Greek mother, he served in World War II with the Australians in North Africa, and as one of Lord Mountbatten's bodyguards in Asia; he became a Moslem, twice made the pilgrimage to Mecca. When the Dutch gave up their effort to hold on to Indonesia in 1950, Turk didn't. He organized a private guerrilla army of some 10,000 East Indies Moslems and Dutch deserters, terrorized a large area of West Java before the young...
...Foreign Minister Martin Artajo and a team of 20 diplomats (including Spain's Lieut. General Mohammed Ben el Mizzian, a devout Moslem) were off on a tour of the Middle East. Their mission: to sell the Moslem states on the idea that Spain, with her ancient cultural ties to Islam, is the natural intermediary between the Middle East and the Western powers. Artajo told leaders that nationalist unrest is just playing into the hands of the Russians. Results so far are meager, but if Franco's missionaries win Moslem converts, the troubled West may be grateful to Madrid...
...They merely said, "If you stand for God, I'm against Him." They knocked down the men and called the girls "curry guts." An Indian girl turned to Scott: "It's not their fault; they don't know what they're doing." She was a Moslem and had not read the story of the Crucifixion...