Word: muslims
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said Rowland George Allanson Allanson-Winn, fifth Baron Headley, when in 1913 he renounced Christianity to embrace the Moslem faith. Lord Headley became president of the British Muslim Society, pre-eminent among the 200 or so Britons who held to the faith of Allah and his Prophet. A Westminster and Cambridge athlete who had written textbooks on boxing, he was a civil engineer, a road-builder in India, one of the world's authorities on wave and tidal action and the protection of foreshores. Whether on a Christian or Moslem impulse, Lord Headley during the War urged that...
...covering typical Indian scenes that range from broad panoramas of the Himalayas to pictures of street fighting, of obscene idols, of corpses being burned beside the Ganges. Katherine Mayo supplies a text to accompany these views in a brief, anti-Hindu, over-simplified sketch of Indian history from the Muslim invasion of 999 A. D. to the trials of Mahatma Gandhi in 1935. Readers who do not share her passionate hatred of Hindu ways are likely to remain unimpressed by her purple prose, her tirades against native terrorists and agitators. Holding that "terrorism" in India is now devoted...