Word: prophetic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They found Elijah Mohammed, alias Muck-Muhd the Prophet, alias Poole, leader of the Temple of Islam, rolled up in a rug under his mother's bed. They locked up Stokley Delmar Hart, president of the Brotherhood of Liberty for the Black People of America. They arrested F. H. Hammurabi Robb, director of the World Wide Friends of Africa. And they pinched Mme. Mittie Maud Lena Gordon, president general of the Peace Movement of Ethiopia...
...jailed leaders. Mme. Mittie Maud said she had four million followers, all taught that they are citizens of Liberia, hence not subject to Selective Service. Elijah Muck-Muhd's faithful knew themselves for Moslems, excused from the draft by direction of Allah in the person of his prophet, Muck-Muhd. Hammurabi's disciples learned they were members of a Jap army within the U.S., that Negro hopes of betterment depended upon Jap victory. All of them, according to an FBI spokesman, had lavish and expensive costumes, plenty of money. The twoscore black Jap puppets had been...
20th-century Quixote? Georges Bernanos' Rio publisher says of him, "He is alone, this man." Last year, in North America, Jacques Maritain was writing: "Crushed by the woes of Apocalypse, the French see no prophet rising from their people to tell the true horror of what has happened and to reawaken the spirit in its depths." At that time Bernanos, self-exiled to Brazil since 1938, was filling five-cent notebooks with his sermons on the true horror, written with an eloquence worthy of the greatest writers of France...
Earlier in the month the picture had looked brighter. One WPB prophet made the headlines with the cheery prediction that not eight, but nine million tons of ships could be expected this year...
...Jesus has nothing to do with the flight into Egypt or the hermit fathers of the desert about whom Flaubert wrote The Temptation of St. Anthony and Anatole France wrote Thais. The Hill owes its name to the fact that Mohammedans regard Jesus, like Mohammed, as an authentic prophet. The Arabic form Eisa is so popular among Egyptians that they often give it to children, geographic locations, farms, and even cabarets...