Word: moslem
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...stake, each had his epaulets and insignia ripped from his uniform. Just before the firing squads triggered their lethal volleys, home screens were deliberately blacked out. There were only sounds: the condemned men shouting "Yaish el Hassan el Thani!" (Long live King Hassan the Second) and chanting the Moslem act of faith, which begins "La lllaha ilia Allah" (There is no God but God) just before they died. Then the crack of rifle fire, the angry shouts of onlookers. Before the picture returned, the witnesses spat on the crumpled bodies of the rebels-the ultimate Arab insult...
About 80% of the refugees from predominantly Moslem East Pakistan are Hindus seeking sanctuary in West Bengal and other eastern Indian states, where their co-religionists are in the vast majority. What particularly worries India is that their chances of ever returning home are diminishing. Last week New Delhi said that the Pakistanis were destroying the title deeds of property owned by Hindus in East Pakistan. So «u the Indians may have to accept, on a permanent basis, a Pakistani refugee population that could eventually reach 10 million...
...virtually certain that the list will grow even longer for the bedeviled people of East Pakistan. Last week, as fresh waves of refugees poured across the Indian border at the rate of 100,000 a day, they brought tales of pogrom against Hindus by the predominantly Moslem Pakistanis. And over the stinking, teeming refugee camps that scar the border areas of five Indian states hovered the growing threat of famine and pestilence...
...irritation of Arab diplomats, even some Moslem Africans are friendly to Israel. Says a foreign ministry official in Senegal, which is 85% Moslem: "Israeli aid is the cheapest and least conditional there could be. Saudi Arabia offered us aid with so many strings that we had to do without it. Generally speaking, the possibilities of the Arab countries are too limited for them to be able to give...
...never trusted with a really sensitive job. At one point he was named editor of the party newspaper Al Gomhouria, and he filled it with tirades against U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and the "felonious and stupid horde" of British and French government figures. A devout Moslem who prays so often and so intensely that he has developed a mark on his forehead where it touches the prayer mat, Sadat was later made secretary-general of the Islamic Congress, an organization of Islamic nations. Because he was an avid Ping Pong player, he was named chairman...