Word: moslems
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because non-Moslems are barred from Mecca during the pilgrim season upon pain of death; because Ibn Saud and his personal followers are so strict that they might be called Moslem Fundamentalists; and because few Christians care a whoop what happens in Arabia, news from the Land of Saud is always scarce, usually untrustworthy. Biggest Christian news of recent years was the 58-day trek of English Explorer Bertram Thomas across 900 miles of arid waste, famed for its weirdly noisy ''singing sands'' and called the Riilxi-aI-Khali or "Abode of Loneliness" (TIME. March...
...Bagdad, capital of the Kingdom of Irak, is a thriving beehive of 250.000 busy, haggling souls. Mecca, one of the two capitals of the Land of Saud, is a Moslem "show place" of only 60.000 which receives and scandalously mulcts each year some 70,000 pious pilgrims...
...Lahore, India, the Widow Khurshaid fell in love with a Moslem boy who quarreled with her, cut off her nose. In court Widow Khurshaid said she had cut off her own nose. Afterward she gave the boy about 4,000 rupees, offered to marry him. When he refused her, she got him drunk, tied him to his cot, cut off his nose. In court, she pleaded guilty, was sentenced to four years' hard labor...
Women. Though enfranchised Indian women have protested that they did not want special privileges, the MacDonald settlement prepares for the future by setting aside 37 seats especially for women: 25 Hindus, 9 Moslem, one Sikh, one Indian Christian, one Anglo-Indian...
Indian Ulsters. British officials like to call the complex states of Bengal and Punjab the Ulsters of India. There the pugnacious Moslems are in actual majority, but most of the money, most of the educated classes, nearly all of the newspapers, are Hindu. In the Punjab, whence come the bearded fighting Sikhs of the Indian army and police force, the Moslem peasants are hopelessly in debt to crafty Hindu moneylenders. The MacDonald commission has solved the problem of the Indian Ulsters to its own satisfaction by not giving the Moslems a statutory majority in either province but protecting their rights...