Word: rusi
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Dates: during 1954-1954
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...Drop of Shame. But their biggest moment came at a meeting for all pilgrims in Mecca's Great Mosque, where delegation leaders reported on the state of the faith in their home countries. Back in Manhattan last week, Hamid and Rusi told about...
...this was to be a hadj with a double mission. Hamid and Rusi had read with anger about the propaganda pilgrimages staged by the Russians during the hadj season. Three times since World War II, Moscow had sent Communists from among Russia's large Moslem population to Mecca. Their mission: to spread the word that the U.S.S.R. is really the nearest thing to Mohammedan paradise and that the imperialist U.S. is out to exploit all Moslems...
Dogged & Dedicated. Hamid and Rusi went to the American Committee for Liberation from Bolshevism, Inc. (a private organization founded in 1951 to organize Soviet refugees for anti-Soviet propaganda) and argued that the U.S. should be represented in Mecca. The committee agreed to help finance the trip...
Early last month Hamid and Rusi arrived at Jidda, 40 miles west of Mecca, and promptly went to work. Wangling seats aboard the same Mecca-bound bus as a planeload of 21 Russian "pilgrims" (TIME, Aug. 16). Hamid and Rusi claimed to be Turks, and engaged the Russians in some probing conversation. In Mecca they began distributing thousands of leaflets they had prepared, followed through with dogged and dedicated heckling...
Everywhere the Russians went, Hamid and Rusi went too, yelling such things as: "You're no pilgrims; you're Communist propagandists! You serve the Moscow atheists!" In Mecca (pop. 90,000) there are some 13,000 Moslem refugees from Russia, so Hamid and Rusi soon had plenty of help. Ripe tomatoes and Mohammedan Bronx cheers greeted the harassed Reds in Mecca's streets, and celebrities whom the Communists wanted to meet, among them Saudi Arabia's King Saud, refused to receive them. Hamid and Rusi were happy hadjis...