The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-11-02
PAN ISLAM.

Sensational reports are coming thick ana
fast from Soudan of the onward progress OF
an individual as yet only known to US as
"The False Prophet" He is said to have
an army of 5000 soldiers and an innumer-
aole camp following, and that, like all the
MAHoMETs and AP IsLAMs, is slaughtering
everybody who denies that he is the verita.
BILE prophet arisen from the dead. He is re-
ported to have captured an Egyptian army
of 5000 men and massacred them on, the
spot, and that three regiments of African
cannibals belonging to his army Toasted for
several days upon their carcasses Many
weak minded people are actually alarmed
over this news, and fear that war of ex-
termination against Christians has again
commenced like that recorded in history
800 years ago. They don't know but this
False Prophet will rally the whole Moham-
medan world Of 5O0,000,000 people TO his
standard ,Sand lead them against all Chris
tian nations, inspired by all the fanaticism
which religious zeal can give. Those who
have such ideas are wholly unacquainted
with the colossal power of Christian Europe
and the puerile weakness OF Moham-
medan Asia. There is not one first
class nation in Europe not match for all
the believers in the Koran. England has
illustrated this in India for two centuries,
and more recently completely proven in
Egypt the superiority Of civilization over
barbarism in trial of arms. SIR GARNET
WoLsELEY could easily have marched from
Alexandria to Mecca, could have traversed
the Euphrates or Changes from source 10
mouth with his 10000 men. There is Just
about as much danger of this False Humbug
making the conquest of Europe as Mexico
conauering and annexing the United States
as Lipan Indians driving Americans
hack and across the Mississippi.
Since the sixteenth century the battles
fought between Asiatics and Europeans
have been on the order of flock of sheep
on one side and lions on the other. Whilst
the Christian world has been steadily adj
yancing in all that makes man lligent
and powerful for the last eighteen hundred
Wars, MAHoMET commanded his followers
TO accept the Koran and look for nothing
rev. They obeyed him. That interminable
mess of stuff has been their Alpha and
Omega. They burned the AleKandrian Lib
brary and laid the Koran on its ruins. We're
you 10 take printing press, a locomotive,
telegraph battery, or any piece o. modern
machinery among half Of them, into
any o. their countries remote fr ON ciyiliza-
tion-they would strsightway consult the
Koran, and ifno passage could be found
authorizing its use, you would be instantly
ordered TO take yourself and wicked ma
chine away. They would reject ADMIRAL
srYnoUn's ironclad feet, and WoLEsEY's
Remington breech-losders for the same rea-
son. England and Russia are slowly shoot
ing daylight into these benighted cumber-
ers Of the ground, and will eventually,
perhaps, make ASA as enlightened
as Europe or America. The war
Just closed in Egypt has been one import
ant step toward the overthrow ofthe Koran.
The FreDc1 conquests in Morocco and
Tunis another, the steady march OF Rus
Ma toward TartAry and India viii never
stop until il meets England's arms or the
oceans brink. Instead, therefore, Of there
being any danger Of the bali and entirely
naked savaEes mustered under the banner
Of IsHNaEL ovsr-running Europe; every
cling pOints exactly the other way.