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Show WORD OF MOHAMMEDAN ORIGIN. Term "Kaffir" Is Applied to All Un believers. Very curious has been (he hls(ory of the word "knfflr." Tho French ex plorerB who hnvo been oenlng up thu Sudnn nnd bahnrn find thnt they nre cnllod knmrs by tho Mohamme-dnnB, Mohamme-dnnB, while Sir Henry Itiiwllngon once said Ihnt the hncllest or! ntal lady he had over seen was n kpfflr slave nt Knbul. When she had loosened her solden hnlr she could cover herself completely ns with a veil. This nnme of kiifflr Is ns world-wide nB Islamlsm, for It Ii tho nnme of "unbeliever" np-ullcd np-ullcd by true Mohnmmednns to those that lefnso the faith. The Portuguese found It applied to the negroes of Unst Africa by their Arab predecessors predeces-sors nnd handed it on to tho Dutch Hid to the Kngllsh Tho kafilr slnve it Kabul belonged to one of tliosa black .-lad mountain trlbcH In tho henrt of Afghanistan who till 1895 defied 'heir Moslem neighbors nnd on their lizzj precipices glonted on their Idolatry Idol-atry These Afghnn knmrs clnim to bo descended from the Greeks who -nine with Alexander In his conquest of the east. |