Word: mohammedans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Extremist party is composed of various elements all striving to gain their ends through an overthrow of British rule in India. One of the most influential of these is the Pan-Islam faction--Mohammedans, who, seeing in the break-up of the Turkish Empire the destruction of the center of their religion, are making India their last stand for a great Mohammedan country. With these are Socialists, Adventurers, men who want an independent India, and men who want a de-Westernized India. Gandhi, the leader of the Extremists, and the man who has the greatest influence over the masses, belongs...
Great Britain and France, it is alleged, are compelled by the sentiment of their Mohammedan colonies to protect the Sultan. But a large part of the Mohammedan world regards the Sultan as a usurper, and renounces all allegiance, civil or religious, to the Ottoman Empire. Mohammedan troops from India and Algeria fought not only against those Germans, but also against those of their own faith. When Mecca passed out of the power of the Turk, not a murmur was heard; yet Mecca, far more than Constantinople, has always been regarded as the center of Islam...