| Show mohammedan EIAN PRAYER PRATER at A t this time when the turkish government is freely charged with foster log ing fanaticism among its jan subjects and its ita friends exert them selves nelves to refute such chargee charge tell hil eging albat the reports from arms armenia ata elager ex ager ate or pervert the truth the f howing prayer daily repeated at mohammedan i institute so learning is of interest ia H 1 Is translated for and published by the record I 1 seek refuge with allah from sata satan the accursed in the name of allah the compassionate the merciful 1 0 lord of all creatures 1 0 allah I 1 destroy the infidels and polytheists thine enemies i the enemies of the religion 1 I 0 allah make their children orphans and d defile ehilt their abodes and cause their feet to slip and give them and their camilie families and ancl their households and their women and their children and their relatives relative by marriage and their brothers and their friends and their possessions and their race and their wealth and their lands as booty to the moslems 0 lord of all Cre creatures aureal liia it is evident that bat as long as sentiments so inhuman so cruel find expression pre eslon lu in the devotional exercises of the he people it is ule ole fur for the sultan to ld protest his desire to see eee all his bis subjects dwell to in equality 1 under hie big wild mild and equitable rule it if he believes in islam lie be believes atiat t lat the are anti anil enemies of religion ani ana in accordance with the prayer quoted he must believe that not only their possessions but also their women and children are the lawful booty 1 1 of the moslems further as long as a such ouch ideas are hold beld by he people no reforms are possible because to be effective they would have to comp com coin P amedco with the very foundations of la lam ism sooner or later the christian powers interested in asia ml nor imor must recognize the impossibility of harmonizing the two opposite elements there existing andin and in the be interest ot of all concerned effect a separation probably to in no other religious religions of even semi civilized nations ean an a parallel to this thie prayer be found worshipers in the mosaic dispensation vere taught to petition the almighty for the speedy victory of truth and thu the destruction of its opponents but even in that remote put past such prayers were directed against the 61 wicked the transgressors and the persecutors ap as 44 to Is evident from the sacred poems of 0 the old testament but in islam up to this dagg destruction is invoked not for the sake of terminating sing in immorality aud and wickedness but as a punishment for holding boliJ laa doctrines doctrin ee different to those of the atran that fact alone should be sufficient ouse 01 01 action in behalf af the christians ians in turkey whatever their faults and shortcomings corico aa ings my m y be |
