Word: mohammedanism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swing farther east into India, striking at the communications lines of the United Nations to China. Wherever they went, south, east, or both, they could well expect to get some help from the native populations, for the loss of Egypt would strike British prestige a severe blow in all Mohammedan countries...
...discounted any chance of Moslem fifth columnism in India and gave as proof that most of the Army's volunteers come from Mohammedan regions, while the majority of Britain's Libyan forces are worshippers of Allah...
...still eloquent propaganda if pretty hopeless theater. It is easy to see why it was one of the first works burned by the Nazis when they came to power. Laid in Jerusalem at the time of the Third Crusade, it offers a setting in which Christian, Jew and Mohammedan can hardly help being at one another's throats. But by restricting them to purely verbal combat, Lessing has them end up in one another's arms. The noble-minded Nathan rids the hot-tempered Crusader of his intolerance, the keen-witted Saladin of his doubts...
India will be left in a disunited, chaotic condition by any move for independence. Withdrawal of foreign capital will ruin the young country's economy, while cleavages between Mohammedan, Hindu and northern seats will destroy any vestige of national unity, the Professor emphasized...
...expected that many more Mohammedan Moros, each looking forward to dark-eyed harem beauties in heaven for every Christian Japanese they killed, would join as fast as they could be sworn...