Word: raschid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hamid Raschid, 42, and Rusi Nasar, 37, are Moslems. They knew each other in their native Russia, both contrived to escape from the Russian army in World War II, both eventually found their way to the U.S. This year they decided to go on a hadj-the pilgrimage to Mecca enjoined by the Koran upon every able-bodied Moslem...
...cried: "How can you as a religious leader condone the crimes against religion committed by the Communist rulers?" The Russian replied that Russian Moslems such as the Crimean Tartars and the North Caucasians (who were deported and exterminated) had been punished by God, not by the Communist government. Replied Raschid: "I am a Tartar. I saw with my own eyes how the mosques were destroyed and the clergy sent to slave-labor camps in Siberia." He produced photographs to prove...