The Turkish Atrocities.
In view of the recent Turkish excesses in Armenia, the following exact translation from the Arabic of the official prayer of Islam, which is used throughout Turkey and daily repeated in the Cairo “ Azhar ” University by 10,000 Mohammedan students from all lands, is both interesting and instructive :—“ I seek refuge with Allah from Satan the accursed. In the name of Allah the Compassionate, the Merciful! Oh Lord of all Creatures! 0 Allah ! Destroy the infidels and polytheists, thine enemies, the enemies of the religion! 0 Allah! Make their children orphans, and defile the r abodes, and cause their feet to slip, and give them, and their families, and their households, and their women, and their relatives by marriage, and their friends, and their possessions, and their race, and their wealth, and their lands, as booty to the Moselems, O Lord of all Creatures!” Commenting on this, the Philadelphia Record sajs : —'* In all the other religions of even the semi-civilised nations of the globe, there can be no prayer found to parallel this cruel appeal of Islam to the spirit of inhumanity. Bulgaria, Damascus., Lebanon, and Armenia may or may not be mere hot-beds of anti-Turkish intrigue; with such a national prayer Turkey stands self-condemmed before the world.”
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Opunake Times, Volume II, Issue 72, 12 March 1895, Page 4
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