Word: moslem
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...ever there were a time for a Harvard hockey team to seek spiritual support, this is it. So like a Moslem to Mecca, like a Catholic to St. Peter's, like a nerd to Cabot, it was time for this hockey fan to make his pilgrimage to the shrine at the corner of Atwater and Lincoln, the Montreal Forum...
...Senni, who total more than 50 percent of the population, don't trust the Christians and the Moslem Druze forces, representing eight percent of the population, have carried the battle against the national government until a ceasefire went into effect less than two weeks...
...months the Punjab's communal hatred had been boiling up into slaughter. A climax came last spring when hundreds were killed in riots. In August the partition of the Punjab between India and Pakistan left 1.6 million of the 3.8 million Sikhs in the province under Moslem rule; at least twice as many Moslems remained on the Indian side of the border in a new East Punjab state...
...Refugees from Lyallpur in West Punjab say that so many Sikhs and Hindus were murdered and their bodies thrown into the canal that the canal actually had a pinkish color for a day after. Moslem refugees told how Sikhs stripped and paraded Moslem women through the streets, raped them and then killed them...
...solidarity. "Their heritage was in their hearts," he says, munching dates and fiddling with worry beads. "But they kept it in the closet." The recent immigrants, displaced by the 1975-76 Lebanese civil war and its aftermath, tend to be Moslem rather than Christian. Says Vicki Tamoush of the National Association of Arab Americans: "Among these people, there is a much greater effort to instill a sense of Arabism in their children...