HOW TURKISH FANATICISM IS FOSTERED.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 302, 12 April 1877, Page 4

HOW TURKISH FANATICISM IS FOSTERED.

The B'ertin correspondent of the Time* lately published in that journal the trans* lation of a long extract from the Kifutd, a Constantinople paper,, which is Ln'tructivea* showing how Moslem fre nay b fanned tinder* tae very nose of the professedly peace-desiring .Porte. The article is an address of welcome to the soldiers returnnghome from the seat of war, who are apostrophised as " gallant warriors-; fighting brothers." The following are a few sentences from the article, whose thirst for blood it would be difficult t& mateoy even in the columns of the Irish "National" Press :—" We greet yon, oh Eon»l You have trodden in the footsteps- of jour heroic ancestors, and imitated their splendid achievements. On Doomsday"every drop of blood that has Hewed from your wounds wilt be converted into flittering pearls, and yon will appear adorned with diamonds and crowned with ttowers. Even our Holy Prophet envied those warriors of his who were wounded or slain on the battle-field, and fervently entreated Allah to accord: him the like favour. ...... t>h, brothers!' we are* warriors, the.sons of warriors !' C*od ha* mode u» such, and we shall) remain as wo have ever been. CKrt with the sword, and bearing th« rife on our shoulder, we shall always be ready to spring forward at the summons of the Padishah, witting to sacrifice one ttf» or a thousand lives. To taa applies- the verse :•—' Let the chained lion break loose from his fetters, and let the enemy try their worst on him. The coward is disgraced,'but the hero bathes hia rusty sword in blood. He wht> loves ABaJh draws, hb sabre..' At the cry, ' Te» war I tot war!' we fo>rget everything exempt otw cottntry. From the seventh toth« seventieth year, all, ait rushi to the frontier and tight tike wild animals. Bather than yield an inch of our country to» the l enemy, we will' cover the ground witbi otw corpses. There is not foot of ground in this land but is soaked wftnv the- blood of our ancestors. Woe to» tn» insolent enemy who. dares ptant Ids foot ©» the; inheritance of our- fathers."' 3S» wonder the ignorant Mahometans of Arabia, or Egypt fight tike demon* when incited by language such as tllfsy wbic& they implicitly eredit, and w&kft appears continutdly in the Cbnitafttinftpte- papers.—Correspondent Ihttfy