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RACIAL EQUALITY. MANIFESTO FOUNDED ON KORAN. JUSTICE FOR CHRISTIANS. (By Tclesraph.-Prese issoclnilon.-OoDjrrletat.) (Rec. July 16, 9.20 p.m.) Constantinople, July 16. Tho Grand Vissier, Hussein Hilmi Pa6ha, has ordered tho Shoik-ul-Islam, Sahib Mollah, to prepare for distribution in overy town and village in the Turkish Empire a, manifesto demonstrating, by texts from tho Koran and the Traditions, that it is tho duty of. all good Moslems to treat Christiana • with jnstice, and to regard thorn as fellow-citizone possessing equal rights. ' The most learned ulemaa (expounders of the sacred law) havo boen ordered to. tako the manifesto as the text of ttioir Boimons during Ramazan, the ninth month of tho ! Mohammedan year, each day of wlrioh is J obsorved as a fast day by tho Mohammedans, from dawn till eunset. The Grand Vizier has ordcrod that translations of the manifesto ehall be distributed in Egypt. •
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 562, 17 July 1909, Page 5
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146CROSS AND CRESCENT Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 562, 17 July 1909, Page 5
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