Word: mohammedanism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Meeting. Handa engineered a meeting with the founder of the new religion, moonfaced Zenjiro Nagumo, a sleek, smooth-tongued evangelist who spiced his exhortations with crisp English phrases, Mohammedan aphorisms and quotations from the Buddhist sutras. "Here," said Handa breathlessly, "is a man after my own heart. He has faith...
...formal international organization. Grand lodges, with regional jurisdiction over "constituent" lodges, are laws unto themselves. In the U.S. the regions are the 48 states and the District of Columbia. But Masonry is a theoretical world brotherhood open to any "good" man, Protestant, Jew, Catholic, Mohammedan, Taoist, Buddhist...
...Mark Van Doren: "The issue should not be what a teacher is or believes, but how he teaches ... A Communist who . . . deliberately twists or distorts the truth ... is a bad teacher and should not be kept in his job; but so is a pragmatist, a Christian Scientist, or a Mohammedan who does the same thing...
...Mohammedan legend has it, Jesus was walking in the bazaar with His disciples one day when they came upon the body of a dead dog. "How it stinks!" blurted one disciple. Said another: "Look at the buzzards wheeling overhead." But Jesus looked and said, "How whiter than any pearls are the teeth...
...ventured to guess how the voting would go. Kashmir's popular Premier, Sheik Mohamed Abdullah, is for union with India. For religious as well as economic reasons, many of his countrymen (85% Mohammedan) would vote for Pakistan. Said a Kashmiri village elder: "In the old days, one candidate offered us a ride to the voting place, a second offered us money. Then, even so, we voted for the third...