Word: ramadan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...death!" "Down with the British!" "Down with Truman!" Abdullah came out of the palace alone, faced the mob unarmed, except for a silver-handled dagger. He asked a wide-eyed question: "Why do you disturb the rest of a devout Moslem in the heat of the day during Ramadan?" Then he hurled a taunt: "Why are you not enrolled in the ranks of the army instead of a mob? Transjordan is my heart, and my mission is to save both Transjordan and Palestine." The mob melted away. To the world he said: "The way to settle ... is to negotiate...
Carefully preserved in 40 bags, one within the other, and locked securely in jeweled boxes, the hairs have been preserved in the mosques for generations. Each year, on Kadir night, at the end of the feast of Ramadan, the bags are opened and the hairs displayed to the faithful. Last week when the muezzins went as usual to find the relics, they had disappeared...
...police or soldiers was likely to bring the clang of rung-down iron shutters, a scurrying for cover. For in Jerusalem (or Haifa or Tel-Aviv or Jaffa) sudden action might mean an exchange of shots. "It is our worst year," said one Arab. "There is no spirit for Ramadan...
India suffered the biggest Moslem-Hindu riot in its history. Moslem League Boss Mohamed Ali Jinnah had picked the 18th day of Ramadan for "Direct Action Day" against Britain's plan for Indian independence (which does not satisfy the Moslems' old demand for a separate Pakistan). Though direct, the action was supposed to be peaceful. But before the disastrous day was over, blood soaked the melting asphalt of sweltering Calcutta's streets...
...21st day of Ramadan, direct action had killed some 3,000 people and wounded thousands more. Said one weary police officer: "All we can do is move the bodies to one side of the street." Vultures tore into the rapidly putrefying corpses (among them, the bodies of many women & children...