Word: moslem
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...Moscow there is only one Moslem mosque, and these days it does S.R.O. business. Ever since the Soviets began buddying up to the Islamic powers of Asia and the Middle East, the Moscow mosque has served a growing contingent of Moslem diplomats. Friday night contributions to the collection plate have grown apace. And to keep up the semblance of Soviet affection for Islam, every year a token delegation from Russia's 30 million Moslems is allowed to make the long pilgrimage to Mecca...
...Soviet Moslems now have a blunt reminder that the religious tolerance they were enjoying is no willing concession. An article in the leading newspaper of Kazakhstan, where many Russian Moslems live, pointed out that the basic Soviet attitude toward Islam is as hostile as it is toward all other religions. The followers of Mohammed, said Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, submit to a "profoundly reactionary'' religion. The paper accused the Moslem clergy of not encouraging the cause of socialism, of not teaching their congregations "to study or investigate the phenomena of life, since this life, according to the Koran, is only...
Pravda attacked Islam because "even now it tries to legitimize the inequality of men and women, and to justify the shameful heritage of past polygamy." In Russia. Pravda adds, "there are no longer any abused, ignorant, semi-slave females who are exchanged for cattle, sold and kidnaped." Moreover, Moslem teaching divides the world into believers and nonbelievers: "Class interests are replaced by religious interests." History, the paper concludes, "knows of no religion whose advocates and prophets ever attained a happy life for the people of the East. Only the October Revolution brought the peoples of the central Asian republics true...
...been a steady slide of the major French parties toward opposition, chiefly because of increasing discontent with De Gaulle's domestic austerity. Only the hope that he can solve the Algerian dilemma has protected him. In Algeria itself, he has been influenced by the growing evidence that the Moslems once thought riveted to France can no longer be counted on. are shifting their loyalties to the F.L.N. Last December's Moslem uprisings shook...
Among the defiant was a group of bearded Moslem zealots, who loved Menderes for building 8,000 mosques and hated Gursel for his insistence on keeping religious affairs strictly separate from those of the state. As Kirdar's coffin emerged from the mosque, the zealots seized it. Chanting a dirgelike Moslem prayer, they carried the coffin through the streets toward the cemetery. When Istanbul's military governor appeared, his car was pelted with stones. "Take back the freedom you gave us," the bearded men shrieked. "We don't want...