Word: moslem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...real emergency developed: that was the day the hotel delivered his eggs soft-boiled. As Vickrey flew back to the U.S. with the portrait and McHale began filing the story of Princess Aisha, other TIME correspondents from Cairo to Djakarta were adding their reports on the emancipation of Moslem women. See FOREIGN NEWS, Beyond the Veil...
...milk-white turban and evening slippers gracefully ascended a dais piled high with priceless Oriental carpets, and turned to face her audience. Younger men in the audience eyed appreciatively the girl's dark eyes, her rich red-brown hair and café au lait complexion. But many orthodox Moslem traditionalists just stared wide-eyed, stunned and aghast at the appearance in public of Her Royal Highness Princess Lalla Aisha, eldest daughter of His Majesty the Sultan-17 years old, unveiled and unashamed...
...case dragged on and on. One judge, intimidated by Communist threats, quit in mid-hearing. At the mosque the Moslem devout tried in vain to ignore the clangor of Red ribaldry outside as they prayed. Life-size pictures of Stalin, Voroshilov and Indonesia's Red Boss D. N. Aidit were plastered on the mosque's walls. Then came the final outrage. In the room behind the coffee shop, the Communists installed prostitutes, even let them wash up in the sacred pool reserved for ceremonial ablutions. "If this sickening thing is permitted to go on," stormed one member...
Last month a new court with a new judge convened for the 21st session of the case. But the Moslem faithful had waited for justice long enough. They stormed from the court into the mosque grounds, drove out the Reds and tore down most of the Red decorations with their bare hands. Even Allah seemed to be taking a hand in the matter: the Red lawyer was killed by a train when his taxi stalled on a railroad crossing. At long last the Indonesian court ruled hastily that Pak Murah and his Communists must vacate the premises forthwith. The Reds...
...French army jeep squealed to a halt as a sullen young Arab planted himself in the middle of the casbah street and refused to budge. A French private named Geronimo leaped from the jeep, and unlimbering his Tommy gun, faced the Moslem troublemaker. From the sidelines an old Arab shuffled forward and tried to soothe his compatriot: "Go home. Come on, don't be mulish.'' Before the old Arab had finished his plea, Private Geronimo's Tommy gun stuttered in reply, and the old man "collapsed softly, muttering to himself unintelligibly while his blood flowed down...