Word: moslem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...milk, sold in filthy tins, costs about twice as much as it does in New York, and Bombay's children get less than one-sixth the milk the average U.S. citizen drinks. When the cows are worn out, they are often sold, in spite of Hindu laws, to Moslem slaughterhouses...
...Istanbul's French Catholic St. Joseph school, recalled that he was "a mild, well-mannered, moon-faced little boy." Raymond's later development was not what Frére Adolphe might have expected: he became the notorious "Turk" Westerling, a reckless, ruthless professional soldier and a fanatical Moslem...
...Westerling fought with the Australian troops in North Africa, later organized a Dutch commando force in the East Indies. He was kicked out of the Dutch army in 1948, began to recruit his own private army to fight against the new Indonesian Republic. His 10,000 troops, mostly Moslem extremists and deserters from the Dutch army, call themselves "The Heavenly Host." Recently, Westerling sent 600 of his men on a raid of West Java's Bandung (TIME, Feb. 6); he boasted that he would conquer all of Indonesia. But last week, Westerling's military future looked...
...rivals glowered over Bengal. In that northeastern region, divided between Pakistan's East Bengal and India's West Bengal, there has been more than a month of savage rioting. Though no one has yet computed total casualties and damage, a swarm of Hindu refugees has fled from Moslem terror in East Bengal (where 29 million Moslems live with 13 million Hindus), while Hindu mobs have struck back at Moslems in West Bengal (where 17 million Hindus live with 5 million Moslems...
...Paris a lady asked me if I thought American women would be interested in a book she had written," Mrs. Roosevelt said. "I asked her what it was, and she said 'Why, it's on the advantages of multiple marriage over divorce.' The lady was a Moslem, and her lack of understanding of our social customs is typical of the larger troubles we had in getting many nations to agree on a definition of human rights...