Word: moslem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wreathed by a wispy beard, his face reflects an almost otherworldly serenity. As he plays with his grandchildren in a tiny village 60 miles north of the East Pakistan capital of Dacca, Abdul Hamid Bhashani, 86, looks the part of a Moslem maulana or guru, and to millions of Bengali peasants, he is. But the kindly grandfather is also Pakistan's most outspoken advocate of violence...
...obedience to Moslem law, he never had more than four wives at a time, but divorce was simple and the wives many. No one seems to know how many children he sired, although one count puts it at 45 sons and 46 daughters. (One report speaks of the proud moment when three wives gave birth to three children on the same...
Only the Holy Know. From that point on, solaced by his favorite wife, Queen Um Shagran, he settled into a remarkably sedate routine. A Moslem teetotaler and nonsmoker for many years, he made a point of rising early, spending some time at prayer and then eating a frugal breakfast of milk, toast and honey. Next came audiences in the throne room that he had had constructed in the hotel, followed by a minuscule lunch, a nap, and a relaxing hour or two with his daughters and their children. Dinner usually consisted of a glass of milk, and bedtime was before...
Another factor in the black extremists' anti-Semitism is their rather paradoxical support of the Arab nations in their struggle with Israel. Moslem traders were initially responsible for selling Africans into New World slavery but Arabs, though technically Caucasian, are often dark-skinned?therefore, soul brothers by adoption. Virtually every extremist leader has championed the Arab cause, even though Israel has contributed far more to the development of black Africa than all its Middle Eastern enemies put together. This paradox gains modest emphasis from the fact that a small minority of American Jews claim Ethiopian descent and that a much...
...streets of Monrovia, the capital, were jammed with parked cars that spilled over into the alleys. Inside the Centennial Ballroom, a babel of people in long white Moslem robes and colored bubus (tribal gowns) mingled with those in formal tie and tails wearing rows of medals. Guided by Tubman and his daughter Coocoo, they marched, then switched to a rumba, a quick step, the Lindy hop, a quadrille. "Faster, faster!" shouted the President, roaring with laughter. For 50 minutes the crowd of nearly 1,000 stomped to John Philip Sousa marches. Leaving most of his guests wilted, the 73-year...