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...Egypt had a chance of being made Calif of Islam; the rug started on its journey, accompanied by the soldiers and followed by a brass band which blared out, with wandering horns and cymbals, an Egyptian marching song. Now to the Wahhabis of Mecca music is an offense to Allah, strictly forbidden in holy places. A little crowd of "fanatics" charged the cortege; the soldiers fired; 25 Wahhabis, some of them women and children, fell dead. King Fuad had lost his chance for the Califate...
...story of primitive disagreements. The Moros of the south?tall, fearless, ignorant, stanch in their faith that there is but one God, Allah, and that Mohammed is his prophet?despise the little "paternoster-saying natives [of the northern islands] who genuflect to this saint's fingernail and that saint's shinbone." As it happens, although the Moros generally get along amicably with General Wood and the whites, they are forever getting into trouble with the constabulary and lesser officials, who are nearly all Christian natives. The big Moslems and the little Christians are always stepping each on the other...
...have no complaints. If by parting I can make for his happiness I will be proud, but just a little heartsore at the time when I think of what has been." Then, pensively, she added: "It's a pity, isn't it, this parting of two whom Allah seemed to have brought together to work His will by a harmonious, happy association ? Ours was a love match even in the sense in which you understand the term in the West...
...altogether displeasing; for at length he was proclaimed Sultan, his brother was made heir with the title of Prince and the republic of the Riff has given way to the sultanate of the Riff. No doubt, too, that Abd-el-Krim calls with the rest of the Faithful to Allah for guidance and victory against the enemy...
...told him of troubles, of Soviet inquiries and insults. Once, last winter, they brought him a Soviet magazine, showed him a cartoon -Bolshevik Zinoviev climbing up a ladder into the clouds with a sledgehammer ready to annihilate five trembling figures which were labeled: "Jesus Christ, God the Father, Jehovah, Allah, Satan." But each bore the face of Tikhon. The old priest smiled: "Donskoi was before the Romanovs, and after Zinoviev will be Donskoi...