Word: moslem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Police State. As the profligacy of King Saud's household has increased, says Philby, his tyranny has tightened. Whenever his subjects, usually students and other sons of traders enriched by his extravagance, have shown signs of political restiveness, the King has invoked his father's stern Moslem laws to repress them. To Philby, who saw Ibn Saud's tribesmen sweep the deserts in their puritanical Wahhabi zeal and fury, this is the surest sign of the regime's decay and advancing doom. Says he: "The fountain of Arab chivalry has been fouled with...
...station the assailant, 32-year-old Muzaffar Ali Zolgadr, feigned insanity in an effort to conceal the fact that he actually was an assassin on assignment. But on his undershirt, cops found two messages written in red ink: "The military pact and oil agreement must be abrogated and all Moslem rules enforced. Islam is above all." The second was from the Koran: "Those who get killed for God and for His rules are not dead but alive...
...developed and a railway built to Elath," said the Egyptian newspaper A Sareeh, "Israel will be able enormously to expand her trade with the Far East, and our boycott will become nothing but ink on paper." The hope of restoring Egypt's land link with Jordan and the Moslem East will vanish...
...Second National Conference on Spiritual Foundations met in Washington, D.C., with some 250 religious leaders and laymen-Christian, Jewish, Moslem, Hindu and Buddhist-and heard such potent speakers as Vice President Nixon, Admirals Radford and Strauss. "Civilization," said the conference message, "rests ultimately upon an act of belief. A renaissance of civilization in the 'postmodern' era already taking shape depends upon a revival of faith in God and a fresh synthesis of faith and reason...
Swinging their scimitars and invoking the name of Allah, the Saracens descended on the great monastery at Luxeuil in Burgundy (now France) one day in 732 A.D. in the flood tide of the great Moslem invasion of Europe. In the ensuing plunder, the monastery's library was scattered - including a Bible scriven some 30 years before, near the end of the Merovingian dynasty. A fragment of that Bible has now turned up at Yale University. Most exciting fact about the find : it is probably the oldest manuscript of Christian music in existence...