SPLIT IN ISLAM

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2861, 28 August 1916, Page 5

SPLIT IN ISLAM

YOUNG TURKS DENOUNCED ' PROCLAMATION BY BEY OF : ] MECCA __ ■ ' ■ ;: ;j ffieuter's Telegram.) 7 i Cairo, August 25. The Grand Bey of Mecca has. issued . n proclamation to Islam denounomg tho ; Young Turks' irreligion, cruelty, and tyranny, and for tho shelling of tie - v Kaaba and setting fire to tho holy, carpet, killing the faithful at prayer. ; The Grand Bey declares:. "Ourinde- ; pendence is complete. aim is tha j preservation of. Islam.' v The Kaaba, is the sacred shrine of .; Mohammedanism. It stands m the ; j centre of the great mosque at Mecca. Set into one of the inner walls of the Kaaba is tho "black stone," a reho .; held in high veneration hy the members , of the Mollom faith. Through the. ecu- ] tnriw the black stone lias been kissed ~ by millions of pilgrims "Itssoftness j Md moisture wero.such,' one Moslem . > sage writes of this relic, '*»»*« , dinner could never remove his mouth from it, whicli phenomenon made tna . Prophet declare it to ho the- covenant of Allah on earth." The holy carpeb , mentioned is possibly the. Kiswah,, or ; , ceil, which covers the. flat roof portion of the outer walls of the Kaaba. the ; ; fcicnificanee of tho. mmw »*!»«! , \ act of violence against the Kaaba would be regarded by all pious Moslems as ■ an unpardouahlo sacrilege.