Word: moslem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...toll bridge between the West and the Arab world, and it preserves its bit of independence by a masterly balancing of opposites. It has not held a census in 15 years, because a census would probably undo the useful fiction that it is almost exactly half Christian, half Moslem. Its electoral balancing act is unique in all the world. Having long been plagued by bloody religious feuds, Lebanon now sees to it that every man running for the same office is of the same religion...
...President is always a Maronite Christian (a Roman Catholic sect with a liturgy of its own. tracing back to a fifth century monk named Maro), the Prime Minister a Sunnite Moslem, and the Speaker of the House a Shiite Moslem. The size of the Parliament may vary, but it is usually constituted in multiples of eleven, so that all the faiths, including the Greek Orthodox, the Druse and others may be proportionately represented. The government party and the opposition each form a front to offer a candidate of the appropriate sect for each seat, and though Sunnite runs against Sunnite...
...more questions, I'll read it again. You'll see, they'll give up." The only thing remotely new in what he had to say was that he would propose a new "general law" in which pacified areas of Algeria would get increasing autonomy, free elections, Moslem instead of French officials, all leading eventually and vaguely to the abolition of the Government General...
...killed outright. Among the 70 injured was a 19-year-old girl who had both legs blown off. Far into the night, ambulances sped back and forth to the hospitals, their sirens wailing in the deathlike silence of the curfewed city. Coming at the end of a week of Moslem rebel terror that had already taken the lives of 16 Europeans and wounded more than 150, the outrage at the Casino de la Corniche was more than most French could stand...
...poor Italians and Spaniards from the working-class district of Bab el Oued and members of the locally recruited Territorial army-they surged through Algiers streets toward the Casbah. Coolly checking window stickers of parked cars, they passed over those with European names, overturned and burned cars bearing Moslem names. They smashed Moslem shops, tore up the seats and ripped down the screen in a Moslem cinema, burned open market stalls. One crowd of boys and girls invaded a butcher's shop, and with a meathook taken from it, hacked a Moslem to death in a nearby street...