The Secret Orders of Islam.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5121, 16 June 1885, Page 3

The Secret Orders of Islam.

It is s grievous error to suppose, as many do, that these scattered millions have no power of combination. Mahommedanism possesses-five secret societies of propagandists. Five great Moslem brotherhoods—viz., the Abdel-Kadea, of Bagdad ; the Darkawi, of Morocco, and the Issawiye, whose headquarters are in Arabia itself as thoroughly organised and disciplined as any Nihilist association. Every pilgrim caravan to Mecca bears with it the emissaries of one or other of these gloomy brotherhoods, and Mecca itself is, and has ]long been, as fully recognised a" place of meeting for the Mussulmeii plotters as Paris is for conspirators of another kind. These stern apostles preach ' that Islam is in danger, and that its disciples must rise as one man to defend it, while the formidable •f Darkawai society,'' Moscow, which, from its savage zeal and persistent advocacy of the most violent measures, may be held as the." dynamite party," of Mohammedanism—Roes so far as to menace openly the Sultan of Turkey and other Mussulman princes who have allowed themselves to be swayed by the influence of the accursed " kafirs of Frangistan," probably meaning France and England. From such a "platform" to the use of daggers and explosives there is but one stop. ■:..:..'