Word: moslem
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...Moment. Baroody is a mass of conflicting nationalities and interests. His family is half-Christian and half-Moslem; though he represents the most orthodox Moslem country in the world, he is a Christian. He can deliver anti-Western diatribes with as much vigor and vitriol as a 1950s Pravda editorial, yet he has an American wife and his four children received U.S. educations. A product of the American University in Beirut, Baroody has been a friend of King Feisal since their youth. He supervised the education abroad of the King's seven sons, and is reputedly adviser...
That was 24 years ago. Today, the religious animosities that have already warped the past and present of one-fifth of humanity seem to have become permanent. Not only do Hindu and Moslem troops of the two countries clash at the borders, but Hindu and Moslem civilians also frequently tear at one another in cities and towns. In West Pakistan, communal troubles are rare only because very few Hindus hung on after partition. But in East Pakistan, Moslem oppression had caused a steady Hindu migration to India even before the current troubles began. Now that light-skinned Pathan and Punjabi...
...Hindu-Moslem struggles go back centuries. Some 1,500 years before Christ, tall, fair-skinned Aryans invaded the subcontinent, subjugated the dark-skinned Dravidians who inhabited it and imposed on them the caste system. But during the millenniums after Christ, plunderers from Central Asia-Turks, Persians and Afghans-brought with them the flaming sword of Mohammedanism. By the mid-17th century, when the Mogul Emperor Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal, the subcontinent was firmly under Moslem rule, and its Hindus were a subjugated majority...
...proud Moslems, warriors and horsemen rather than merchants and intellectuals, turned inward and all but "abandoned the field to the Hindus. As Historian Arnold Toynbee described it, "A British arbiter had decreed that the pen should be substituted for the sword as the instrument with which the competition was conducted." As independence approached, the Moslems understandably grew uneasy about the pros- pects of life under a vengeful Hindu majority. Moslem Leader Mohammed Ali Jinnah demanded the creation of a separate Islamic nation, Pakistan. Among the five provinces that opted to join the new nation was East Bengal, whose Moslem majority...
...have the divided Hindu and Moslem states not been able to maintain a separate peace? Gandhi always thought that a common thread of Indian-ness would somehow hold the two together. But the explosion of Hindu-Moslem hatred after partition was enough to poison a whole generation of Indians and Pakistanis. In the meantime, a new generation has grown up on both sides-one that does not even remember the days not so long ago when all thought of themselves as Indians...