Word: moslems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sacred Rota: "The declaration that the Rota's action was an intrusion and an impertinence leaves It unmoved because this is not the viewpoint of the Catholic Church. . . . The Catholic Church deems the Rota capable of examining the annulment not only of Protestant but of Jewish and Moslem marriages if the grounds are sufficient according to canon law. . . . Canon law regarding marriages is strictly according to divine law, which neither Protestants, Moslems nor Jews can dispute...
Cairo, Egypt, has its fundamentalists. Dr. Taha Hussein., blind poet, went on trial there last week, charged with traducing in poetry the infallibility of the Koran. There are statements in the latter "which must not be accepted as historically accurate," he ventured to say. The Moslem University of El-Azhar, outraged at the charge, supports the prosecution. One lawyer defending the poet has been ostracized by his family...
Mohammed in London. A Moslem mosque, the first in the British Isles, other than two temporary temples, has been dedicated in the London suburb of Southfields. The opening ceremony was performed by Emir Feisal, King of Iraq, third son of the King of the Hedjaz. Mohammedan worshipers in England are a small but steadily growing body. Rowland George Allanson Allanson-Winn, Fifth Baron Headley, is a leader of the British activities of the sect...
Within a few hours 8 of the Faithful were dead and 14 injured as the result of inter-Moslem riots to decide these questions. The rioters, catholic in their wrath, destroyed the local grain market, looted extensively, eventually were dispersed by military pickets...
...further resolution significantly recorded the opinion that "a Calif can attain that office by conquest, providing always that he be a Moslem." More succinctly, Islam will rally to any Moslem who arises, smites the faithful and their enemies into submission, and proclaims himself Calif-the temporal and spiritual overlord of Islam...