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He was only an indifferent Moslem, worshipping unknown entities whom he called Yog-Sothoth and Cthulhu.
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His looting of the orderly room had taken only a minute or two and the vicinity was still clear of guerrillas.
It was pitiful to see the thin ranks of warriors, old and young, wheeling and twisting their ponies frantically from side to side only to be tumbled bleeding from their saddles by the relentless slam, slam of the cruelly efficient Hawkinses.
On a shelf in the office behind the counter was a small radio dialed permanently on a station which broadcast only vulgar commercials and cheap popular music.
Once, pressing him, I learned that his job was only part-time, in the afternoons when nothing went on in the hall.
Though only a relatively short walk separated it from my own part of town, its character was wholly foreign to me.
Although it was dark as usual I could see that the hall had only recently contained a great many people.
This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.
The only thing which would have attracted attention was that two wore the uniform of prison guards, three the striped suits of convicts.
He had belonged to this land and, perhaps, had desecrated it -- and this was the only material symbol that remained of him.
There was only one place where the mountain might receive her -- that unnamed, unnameable pool harbored in its secret bosom.
He paused only long enough to ascertain that Jess's buckskin was still missing and that his own gray was all right, then climbed through a back window and dropped to the ground outside.
Again he stood in the darkness listening, but there was only the scrape of a shod hoof on a plank floor.
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Unconcerned, indifferent, unmotivated, the forest was simply there -- fighting man's depredations with more abundant growth and man's follies with its own musical evening laughter.
" The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else ," Capp philosophically wrote ( in Life magazine on May 23, 1960 ), " was to be indifferent to that difference.
Biological sabotage – in the form of anthrax and glanders — was undertaken on behalf of the Imperial German government during World War I ( 1914 – 1918 ), with indifferent results.
This indifferent attitude of Amsterdam was the main cause of the slow, half-hearted policy, which would eventually lead to losing the colony.
In the December 1994 Wild Forest Review, Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair wrote " The mainstream environmental movement was elitist, highly paid, detached from the people, indifferent to the working class, and a firm ally of big government .… The environmental movement is now accurately perceived as just another well-financed and cynical special interest group, its rancid infrastructure supported by Democratic Party operatives and millions in grants from corporate foundations .”
Meanwhile, the royal court at Versailles was seen as being isolated from, and indifferent to, the hardships of the lower classes.
Francis, on the whole, was indifferent to her fate ( she was not close to his father Leopold, and Francis had met her, but when he was of an age that was too young for him to remember ).
Several years of bad harvests and an inadequate transportation system had caused rising food prices, hunger, and malnutrition ; the country was further destabilized by the lower classes ' increased feeling that the royal court was isolated from, and indifferent to, their hardships.
At a time in which football was played seriously only in the larger cities of the Northwest of Italy, most of Verona was indifferent to the growing sport.
In the editorial notes of his compendium Portraits by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Hilles theorizes that " as a corollary one might say that he was somewhat lacking in a capacity for love ", and cites Boswell's notary papers: " He said the reason he would never marry was that every woman whom he liked had grown indifferent to him, and he had been < u > glad </ u > he did not marry her.
Stuart gave his friend Jackson a fine, new officer's tunic, trimmed with gold lace, commissioned from a Richmond tailor, which he thought would give Jackson more of the appearance of a proper general ( something to which Jackson was notoriously indifferent ).
" Condivi said he was indifferent to food and drink, eating " more out of necessity than of pleasure " and that he " often slept in his clothes and ...
Whereas the " higher " law Aristotle suggested one could appeal to was emphatically natural, in contradistinction to being the result of divine positive legislation, the Stoic natural law was indifferent to the divine or natural source of the law: the Stoics asserted the existence of a rational and purposeful order to the universe ( a divine or eternal law ), and the means by which a rational being lived in accordance with this order was the natural law, which spelled out action that accorded with virtue.
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A tale concerning Gregory II was attached to the victory over Moslem forces at the Battle of Toulouse ( 721 ).
As a Frankish garrison of the Kingdom of Jerusalem its defence was precarious, being ' little more than an island in a Moslem ocean '.
He saw that the Moslem population was now on the decline, some being massacred, and some abandoning the island.
" Louis Gustave and Charles Strauss in Moslem and Frank ; or, Charles Martel and the rescue of Europe said " The victory gained was decisive and final, The torrent of Arab conquest was rolled back and Europe was rescued from the threatened yoke of the Saracens.
In 1628, a larger raiding force of about 200 Spanish army officers and 1, 600 soldiers was organized to attack Jolo again-in order to break the backs of the Moslem slave raiders and traders.
He is, in fact, a Grand Sheikh of the Sufi Tariqa ..." Privately, however, writing to a friend, Graves confessed that this was " misleading: he is one of us, not a Moslem personage.
As a result of the redevelopment of Western Europe, and the gradual fall of the Eastern Roman Empire to the Arabs and Turks ( helped by warfare against Eastern Christians ), the final Fall of Constantinople in 1453 resulted in Eastern scholars fleeing the Moslem hordes bringing ancient manuscripts to the West, which was a factor in the beginning of the period of the Western Renaissance there.
His original name was Behzādān, prior to his father Vandād Hormuzd's voluntary conversion to Islam by the Abbasid Caliphates, he had adopted the name of ' Moslem ' for himself.
Religious tolerance was an important factor in a multiethnic and multi-religious state, as the territories of the Commonwealth were inhabited by many generations of people from different ethnic backgrounds ( Poles, Lithuanians, Ruthenian, Germans and Jews ) and of different denominations ( Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, Jewish and even Moslem ).
In the face of opposition from conservative Moslem groups in Indonesia, the planned Lady Gaga show was cancelled.
This word can lead to confusion ; the Visigothic scholars used it to contrast with Greek or Hebrew, and Simonet ( 1888: XXIII-IV, XXXV-VII ) established that in Moslem Spain it was used to refer to the non-Arabic vernacular ( as was Arabic Al-Lathinī )
The term has been largely superseded by " Muslim ", " Moslem " or " Islamic ", but was commonly used only in Western literature until at least the mid-1960s.
Owing to the Moslem insurrection in Yunnan, an insurrection that had nearly engulfed the entire province and was only put down by Marshal Ma after several sieges, they were now experts in the art of siegecraft.
The most infamous was the handover of 200 Moslem refugees in 1992 directly to the Trebinje corpus in neighbouring Herzegovina.
Bols said the news was received with '( c ) onsternation, despondency, and exasperation ' by the Moslem Christian population ...
In around 1565, Islam was extensively spread in Kartanegara by two Moslem preachers from Java, Tunggang Parangan and Ri Bandang.
The cause of the Osing's conversion is that, during the 19th century, when Banyuwangi was still unscathed by the Dutch colony, but knowing that by launching an attack on Banyuwangi, they will lose out in the battle as the Hindu principal puputan was a fight-to-death, the Dutch sent Moslem ( and Christian ) missionaries to tame the fighting spirit.
Barangay Oring-Oring, located some 7 km from Poblacion proper is the birthplace of the World ’ s Biggest Pearl ; known throughout the world as the Pearl of Allah or the Pearl of Lau-Tzu, this 14. 1-pound porcelaneous pearl was found by a native Moslem in the seas of Oring-Oring.
His mother was a member of the Beyrums, a noble Turkish family which had risen to prominence in Tunis, was famous throughout the Arab world for its learnedness in Moslem law.
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