Word: islamism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Israel v. Islam...
...acme of British commonsense. The situation in Palestine had become quiet last week, with 5,000 British troops policing the land, disarming both, Jews and Arabs, recovering loot seized in the riots, massacres and town-burnings of last fortnight. Quite possible the best way to quench the strife of Islam v. Israel was to make both factions feel that further slaughter would be common murder, not glorious and justifiable vengeance taken upon a rival race and creed...
Idaho, in the course of his Jewry v. Islam speech at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden (see p. 26), said: "Generally, when I do not reflect, I say what I think...
...doing you would merely cause unnecessary pain to pious devotees of Islam. In the present instance, I fear that you have shocked the Catholic Sister cruelly, unless you cancelled her subscription so promptly that she did not receive the issue in which her letter and the verse appeared. If I am any judge of human nature, she at least flipped through a copy to see if her letter had been printed. You might have spared her a shock, and perhaps tears...
...with the Knights Templars, who are painted as Black-Mass men and whose assassins invariably go disguised as leprous beggars, O'Neill and Kothra hump themselves furiously on dromedary-back to the marge of the Lake of Galilee. The bloodhounds are coming! Quick, quick! Will he embrace Islam to save them both? Yes, yes! So, discreetly, they strip off their clothes and swim together out of the last chapter, presumably to board a Bedouin fishing smack, get back to Damascus and live in flower-fragrant happiness ever after...