Word: moslem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crisis is rooted in Lebanon's volatile ethnic makeup. Roughly half of its 2,700,000 citizens are Christian, half Moslem. The Lebanese, jealous of their position as the eastern Mediterranean's pacemakers in commerce and communications, have kept the ethnic conglomerate intact for 26 years by means of a scrupulously observed gentleman's agreement. It provides that the President of the republic-currently Charles Helou-should always be a Maronite Catholic, the Premier a Sunnite Moslem, and the Speaker of Parliament a Shia Moslem. Parliament is apportioned on a 6-to-5 ratio favoring Christians...
Nasser was right. Trouble started soon after the delegates invited India, whose Moslem minority of 60 million gives it the world's third largest Islamic population (after Indonesia's 100 million and Pakistan's 90 million). Next day the Indian Ambassador to Morocco, a gray-bearded Sikh sporting an elegant white turban, joined the Congress. He was, of course, not a Moslem, and it was as if W. C. Fields had shuffled into a W.C.T.U rally. Sputtered a Pakistani journalist: "If India can come, there could be an Islamic summit next year to which Israel could...
...Protector. Because of the delays, the delegates stayed on an extra day to endorse a final communique. As far as the militants were concerned, they need not have bothered. Seven of the non-Arab Moslem countries, including Iran, Senegal and Turkey, have diplomatic ties with Israel. As a result, resolutions calling for all Moslem nations to break off relations with Israel were foredoomed. The final communiqué simply echoed parts of the 1967 U.N. resolution, calling on Israel to withdraw from the Arab territories that it occupied during the Six-Day War and asked the Big Four to redouble their...
Meanwhile, a five-member Israeli investigative commission, including two Moslems, issued a 19-page report on the issue that launched the conference -the Al Aqsa fire. The report accused the mosque's Moslem guards of laxity for having allowed the alleged arsonist, a 28-year-old Australian, to slip into the shrine before visiting hours. Fire damage could have been greatly reduced if modern extinguishers had been available in the mosque, the report added, but Arab officials had rejected an earlier Israeli offer of fire-fighting equipment. Their reasoning, the report went on, was: "There is nothing to fear...
Ahmedabad soon swarmed with refugees. At one point, 20,000 Moslems crowded into the city stadium. Seven days after the riots began, a grim Prime Minister Indira Gandhi (no relation to the Mahatma) drove silently past Ahmedabad's blackened buildings, then returned to New Delhi and summoned the heads of India's states to discuss ways of avoiding future Ahmedabads. Her advice might well be the same as Gandhi's admonition to his Congress Party members 44 years ago: "Go throughout your districts, and spread the message of Hindu-Moslem unity...