Word: moslem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sight of dark Moslem soldiers in their quiet streets last week bitterly reminded Germans of the Moroccans who took part in the 1919-30 occupation of the Rhineland (which Hitler called a plot against the purity of Germany), and of those who raped the Black Forest villages during World War II, finding their food and fun where they could. Some German women believe, whether or not it is true, that in those days one Moroccan raped a fraulein, then killed her by biting through her jugular vein. The French deny that Moroccans committed more rape than any other troops...
...simple, rugged men of mountainous Nepal, the word "muhammad" means great and strong. It seems a fine name to give a faithful dog. To the touchy Moslem minority in the state of Uttar Pradesh near New Delhi, however, the same syllables, no matter what their spelling, mean only one thing: Mohammed, the Prophet. One day last month a Nepalese traveler named Maganlal Shah came to Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh and lost his dog, a dog so beloved that he led it with a silver chain. Maganlal advertised in the Lucknow Pioneer: "Lost, from the Hindustan Hotel, one fox breed...
...succeeded in restoring the lost Muhammad to his owner, but that was not all. It aroused the ire of some 100,000 affronted Moslems who claimed their Prophet had been insulted. Some 5,000 of them jammed the streets in front of the Pioneer's offices shouting "Shame." Students boycotted school, and businessmen shut their shops. A protest meeting was held in the city's biggest mosque. In the state assembly, a Hindu Communist took advantage of the situation to decry the government's "indifference to the resentment of the Moslem minority." The Pioneer published an abject...
...staged an average of two attacks daily in the region. Once last August, they swept through town killing some 80 Europeans and warning the rest over the radio to "take your choice: a valise or a coffin." French repression was brutal, immediate and indiscriminate, taking an estimated 4,000 Moslem lives in the neighborhood, but it was not effective...
...grimmest picture sequences of 1955 showed a French gendarme shooting an unarmed Moslem to death during a period of rioting in Algeria (see cut). Filmed and widely shown by Fox Movie-tonews, the photos were also published in LIFE. Last week, in the heated French election campaign, the accusation was made that the cameraman had bribed the policeman to shoot down the Algerian to provide some exciting footage...