GERMANY AND ISLAM.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 43, 25 May 1916, Page 2

GERMANY AND ISLAM.

AMAZING REVELATIONS. The Secretary of the War Office on Bth April issued the followin gannouncernent: — His Majesty’s Government has received conclusive Evidence of widespread efforts on the part of the German Government fo suppress the Mohammedan religion throughout their African colonies. General Smuts has reported that in the German Government archives captured at Moslii the following circular was discovered All Military Sta-, tions: You are requested to . send, within three months from date of receipt a jreport stating what can be done by means of Government servants and Government teachers effectively to counteract the spread of Islamic propaganda. Ho you consider it possible to make a regulation prohibiting Islam altogether? Possibly a rule might lie enforced by which teachers would not lie allowed to perforin circumcisions or act as preachers in the mosques. etc. The same prohibition might (also he applied to other Government [servants. The encouragement of pighVp?ding. among natives is recommended by experts an effective means of stopping the spread of Islam. Please consider this point also.” This circular is signed by Hr. Sobnee, the Imperial Governor of German East Africa, and is dated some months before the outbreak of war. It wap despatched to aIT district commissioners in German East Africa.