Word: mohammedanism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recognize that the present conflict is a great emergency where all men of character must stand together united," they informed General Douglas MacArthur. "We will disregard differences in religion between Christian, Filipino, Mohammedan or pagan. ... To all of this we have sworn on the Koran...
...Hitler. And anyone who wanted could listen to his radio and hear Axis propaganda. The Shah confessed himself a frequent listener to Japanese broadcasts in Iranian. "The Japanese," he said, "never mention themselves, but always talk of what Germany can do for Iran. They . . . invariably describe Hitler as a Mohammedan who is a direct descendant of the Prophet, and who was born with a sacred green belt about his middle...
Major Glubb's many years in the East seem to have given him more than Arabic nicknames. He seems to have acquired the Mohammedan practice of fingering the Tasbih. The Tasbih could be called the Mohammedan Rosary. Composed of 33, 66 or 99 beads, it is used by the faithful in the repetition of the 99 names which express the attributes of Allah. These beads are generally fingered during meditation and moments of stress...
When a Moro goes juramentado, he takes a fanatic oath to kill as many Christians as he can before he is killed himself. He also frequently kills anyone else of his own faith (Mohammedan) who is handy...
Religion is recognized to be as dangerous as the questioning mind. In Russia, "the Orthodox Church, the Jewish synagogue, the Mohammedan mosque, the sectarian meetinghouse, have been involved in a common ruin." In Germany the extremist persecutors of the church troop back to the primeval forest to revive the fervors of Wotan worship and inspire pagan Siegfrieds to blitz the Fafnirs of "pluto-democracy." History, the record of the race, has been perverted to glorify the party, the leader, or serve the changeable politics of the total state...