Word: moslem
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...partition of India into two independent nations unleashed such bitter religious strife between Moslem and Hindu that the subcontinent nearly drowned in blood. More than 100,000 people were killed and 12 million left homeless in an orgy of butchery, rape and destruction. Last week the horrible memories of those ugly days came back to India as mobs ran loose in Kashmir, East Pakistan and West Bengal...
...holy days, the prophet's hair is tenderly removed from its resting place, attached to a chain and locked around the waist of one or the other of five Bandey brothers, the hereditary keepers who alone are permitted to touch the sacred relic and show it to Moslem worshipers in the mosque's great quadrangle...
...mosque. Then grief turned to fury. Next day a screaming mob burned and looted through the capital until police broke up the crowds by firing over and, sometimes, under their heads, killing two and wounding several other pilgrims. Though officials feared the excitement might provoke violence between Hindu and Moslem communities, on New Year's Day worshipers of both faiths paraded peacefully together, Hindus chanting "Har Har Mahadev!" (Praise to God), Moslems crying "Allah O Akbar!" (God is great...
...Hussein, a first-rate pilot, went to the control tower to supervise the landing. Guns barked out a 21-gun salute as the Pope stepped out of the plane; girls from a Roman Catholic school curtsied and offered him bouquets of flowers. In his deliberate, Sandhurst English, the tiny Moslem king welcomed the Pope to Jordan and hailed him as "a great leader in the service of humanity and the service of peace." Answering in English, Paul once more described his trip as "a humble pilgrimage to the sacred places made holy by the birth, the life, the passion...
...more than three centuries, Zanzibar was the jumping-off place for adventurers and explorers and a sanctuary for slavers, who carried their black cargo from the mainland beyond the range of avenging tribes. Swept by the monsoons, dhows from the Arabian peninsula brought Moslem raiders who installed Arab sultans and kept the island's black majority in bondage cultivating the clove groves (the island still supplies 75% of the world's cloves). After the British took over in 1890, troops kept the racial peace, but today race riots sporadically erupt. Though the Arabs make up less than...