THE SECRET ORDERS OF ISLAM.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2013, 11 June 1885, Page 2

THE SECRET ORDERS OF ISLAM.

It is a grievous error to suppose, as n W do, that these scattered millions * have no power of combination. Mohammedanism possesses live secret societies of propagandists. . Five great Moslem brotherhoods—viz,, the Abdel-Kadea,. of Bagdad; the Dairkawi, of Morocco, and, Issawiye, whose headquarters, are in Arabia itself, as thoroughly organised and v 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 hasten as fully recognised a place of meeting for Mussulman plotters as Paris for conspirators of another kind. • These stern apostles preach incessantly ' that Islam is in danger, aiid that its disciples must rise as one man to defend }'- it while the formidable "Darkawi society, Morocco—which, from its savage Zeal and persistent advocacy of the most violent measure, may be held as the "dynamite party," of Mohammedanism —goes -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' j ; 11 platform" to the use of daggers and explosives there is but one step.