Word: moslem
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...bitter, five-hour meeting of the 150-man central committee of the Arab Socialist Union last month, Sabry launched a showdown attack on the federation. Like the pro-Communist Sudanese, the left-leaning Sabry objected to any alliance with Libya's Muammar Gaddafi, a fundamentalist Moslem who vigorously opposes Communism. Sabry's real target, however, was Sadat. Sabry bluntly demanded: "Where did you get the authority to agree to this federation...
...daughter-in-law and four grandchildren in the fire. Few apparently survived in the destroyed sections-25 square blocks-of the Old City. If they escaped the flames, they ran into gunfire. To frighten survivors, soldiers refused to allow the removal of decomposing bodies for three days, despite the Moslem belief in prompt burial, preferably within 24 hours, to free the soul...
...been better portrayed than in this novel by Yugoslavia's most celebrated warrior-ideologue. Milovan Djilas wrote Under the Colors while serving a prison sentence for criticizing Tito's regime. But the book is not concerned with contemporary events. It re-creates the clash between Serbian and Moslem in Djilas' native Montenegro in the late 19th century. Djilas lost much of his own family in this incessant warfare; he grew up on legends of heroism and endurance...
...indistinct battle lines reflected the ethnic and cultural divisions that have beset Pakistan since its creation as a Moslem homeland when British India was partitioned in 1947. Two predominantly Moslem areas that used to be part of India became a new country, the two parts separated by 1,000 miles of Indian territory. Thus, though 80,000 West Pakistani soldiers were on hand to keep order in East Pakistan last week, their supply bases were 1,000 miles away and most food and ammunition had to be carried 3,000 miles around the coast of India. The troops -mostly tall...
...survey, a large majority said subsidized housing should be reserved for "our own people"-i.e., whites. "Britain is fish and chips," a woman in Birmingham explained, "not curry and rice." The Wolverhampton Bus Corporation until recently refused to allow Sikh bus conductors to wear their turbans while on duty; Moslem girls at some schools have been forbidden to wear their traditional shalwar (baggy trousers...