GERMAN FAIRY TALES
AMAZING STORJES TOLD TO THE MOHAMMEDANS. Bishop Sliknian, at a recent CM.S. meeting in London, said that our enemies had circulated many falsehoods among the Mohammedans. The first was that Germany was now a great Power which sought above everything else to'bring Islam up to tho position ol' .supremacy which to some extent it cccupied 10011 yeais ago. The Kaiser was called Hajii .Mahomet GuiTliaine, and it was said that he lay three days and Unco nights before the Khaba Shrine, and at the end a groat voice came to liim distinctly as the envoy of Allah tho caviour of Islam and the Sword of the Lord "Arise and fight."
Ailother and more dangerous falsehood was that we British had one objcct in waging this war, and that was that wo hiui the bones 01 nil the .Pharaohs in tins British Museum, and that we should never be satisfied until we captured the Sacred Cities of .Mecca and Medina, and rilled the Prophet's tomb and brought his bones to the British Museum.
The third was t hat the whole brood of the Holwnzollerus we.vc descended from the sister of Mahomet, and therefore lhos2 -vho revere the name of their Prophet were bound to rally round the Central Po'vers. v
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2830, 22 July 1916, Page 10
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212GERMAN FAIRY TALES Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2830, 22 July 1916, Page 10
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