Word: moslems
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Irak's lean King Feisal died last month (TIME, Sept. 18), he bequeathed to his son Ghazi a political juggling act: a circle of Moslem advisers nicely balanced between Anglophiles and Anglophobes. He bequeathed, too, his brother and personal adviser, that AH ibn Hussein who was King of the Hejaz for a year (1924-25) after his father Hussein abdicated and before Ibn Saud drove him out. Among the Arab clique; who stalk between the slender pillars of the King's Palace in Bagdad, Ali is rated an Anglophile. Against him are the Finance Minister, the Army...
Brave men and great fighters are the followers of Islam, but their religious sensibilities are tender as an aching tooth. Because the British War Office tried to get them to bite paper cartridges tactlessly greased with pork tallow 76 years ago, Moslem sepoys fought the great Indian Mutiny. Because a Moslem fanatic proclaimed himself a redeemer or Mahdi in Egypt 40 years ago, thousands of Egyptians rebelled, left the bland head of Charles George ("Chinese") Gordon stuck on a spike at the gates of Khartoum. Last week because a Swiss headmistress hoisted the skirts and paddled the bottom of naughty...
...Jesus Tower are inscriptions in Hebrew, Arabic and Aramaic. Not with out tact must the Y. M. C. A. be, for Jerusalem seethes with 52,000 Jews, 19,000 Moslems, 19,000 assorted Christians. Fortnight ago when Lord Allenby ap peared in Jerusalem, there were angry mutterings in Arab newspapers. Veiled Moslem women paraded making bitter speeches. To them it seemed that the Y. M. C. A. planned to proselytize with its fine new building. But they were mis taken. And other Jerusalemites were less truculent because they had already seen how the Y. M. C. A. operates...
...Moslem priests, scandalized, scratched their canny heads. Syria, they recalled, was suffering from droughts. That fact gave them an idea...
...King and Queen of Italy and the King and Queen of the Belgians will be visitors, as also will such discarded monarchs as Spain's Alfonso and Victoria, Portugal's Amelie, Austria-Hungary's Zita, and Afghanistan's Amanullah, who will not bring his beauteous Moslem wife, Souraiya. President Miklas of Austria is expected. Other Catholic nations may send delegations. The Vatican has let it be known that it would appreciate a visit from President Lebrun of France...