Word: moslems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despite the prejudices of Harvard and Princeton men in charge, coeducation is established at Beirut. The lecturer showed the importance of this by the instance of the Moslem girl who removed her veil--for the first time in public--in chapel, and of the Jewish girl who sat at table with men of all faiths...
...religion. In a recent volume Mr. Bakeless of Williams writes: "It is but a few years since . . . Russian, Austrian, and German troops were marching in the names of gods as truly tribal as Allah and Yahweh ever were, . . . and the Jehad, or Holy War, was proclaimed in the Moslem world. Even a "D man" in History 1 recognizes that it was religion that set Europe aflame with hostilities after the Reformation and sent war and misery to the Indian empires of the West. Christianity, like other religions, has all too often become a tool in the hands...
...Palestine", he continued, "there are 25 religions and 40 different tongues. The Moslem Arabs make up 78 per cent of the population and the Hebrews only 11 per cent, of whom many are Christians...
...ignorance of the fellahin (peasants) who form a majority of the population, the students have acquired influence through being the only part of the population that can voice intelligent criticism and play upon the feelings of the uneducated masses. In Cairo, which has long been the chief centre of Moslem learning, they have become the loudest protagonists of nationalism and the most active in agitating against Britain...
...Koran is then the supreme authority of Islam. Under it are many others. Mohammed said there would be 73 Moslem sects, but that only one would survive. This is authority enough for the existence of 73 sects, although the nuances which differentiate some of them are delicate in the extreme. For the purpose of clarifying the background to events which are even now taking place in Arabia, attention will be drawn to onethe Wahabite. The Wahabis are a cross between the Hanbalite and Zahirite sects or, in western parlance, the Puritans of the Church of Islam. They cling tenaciously...