The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1915. SEEN THROUGH MOHAMMEDAN SPECTACLES.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 January 1915, Page 2

The Chronicle PUBLISHED DAILY. LEVIN. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1915. SEEN THROUGH MOHAMMEDAN SPECTACLES.

, Why do Mohammedans resist Chris- ( tian teaching? Achmed Abdullah, , who was educated in England, France and Germany, on returning to his na- ' tivc land, wrote: "For the first time j in my fife I felt the ghastly meaning ■of the words '.Racial Prejudice'—that terrible blight which modern Christianity has forced on the world. Aad it chilled me to the bones, nul I wondered. . . If you wish to conquer with the right of tire or the might of .sword, go ahead and do so, or at least say so. It would be a motive which, we Muslim, being warriors, could understand and appreciate. 13ut do not clothe your greed for riches and dominion in the hypocritical, nasal, singsong of heaven-decreed mission to enlighten the poor native, a Pharisee call of duty to spread the word of your Saviour, your lying intention to uplift the ignorant Pagan. Drop your mask of consummate beatitude in the contemplation of the spiritual joys, the Christian and therefore yery sanitary plumbing you are endeavouring to confer upon us. Stop being liars and hypocrites, and you. wiJJ cease being what you are to-day. And lam not exaggerating. lam really putting it miltfly so as not to hurt your feelings. 1 coiild mention a dozen instances to prove that you yourselves are forcing on the world the coming struggle between Asia, all Asia, against Europe and America, against Christendom, in other words. You are heaping up material for a Jehad, a Pan-islam. a. PanAsia Holy War, a gigantic day of reckoning, an invasion of a new Attila and Tamerlane. . . . who will use rifles and bullets instead of lances and spears. You are deaf to the voice of reason and fairness, and so you must be taught with the whirling swish of the sword* when it is red."