The herald., 1896-01-19

ul-hard, or the land of unbelieverH. All
| that is not of Islam, therefore, ,is an
| enemy and must be warred against IN
/ til subdued or exterminated.
| This is the constant teaching of the
Koran, whose tenets stir the blood of
the Turk like the shund of a trumpet.
"Ihe sword" said Mahomet, sis the
key of heaven and hell; drop of blood
shed in the cause of God, q night spent
in arms, is of more avail than two
months of fasting and prayer. Whose
ever falls in battle his sins are for
given; at the day of Judgment his
wounds shall be resplendent as vermil-
ion and odoriferous as musk; and the
loss Of his limbs shall be supplied by
the wings of angels and cherubim."
And again, "In the shadow of the cross
ing scimitars there is Paradise"
Every Mahometau is required to be
a soldier; every soldier killed in battle
for the defense of his faith is g. scheded,
or martyr, and the Turkish lad is
trained from infancy to believe that
the Moslen who deserts his post or
flies before the foe sins against God
and man, and his punishment will be
death in this world and hell-tire in the
next.
Among tho tenets of the Mahome-
tan's creed is the following instruction
for the guidance of the faithful: mo
enemy is entitled to quarter and all
modes of destruction are lawful, while
the official prayer which ascends daily
throughout Turkey from thousands of
Moslem lips breathes forth the most
malignant hatred toward all unbeliev-
ers.
80 Lord of all creatures! o Allah!
Destroy the infidels and polytheists,
thine enemies, the enemies of the re-
ligion! 0 Allah! Make their children
orphans and detile their abodes and
cause their feet to slip; and give them
and their families, and their house
holds, and their women, and their chill
dren, and their relatives 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, o Lord of ull
creatures!'
The history of Mahometanism is one
long series of butcheries committed in
the name and for the glory of Allah.
The .holy wars" were inaugurated by
this prophet himself When the Israel
ties of Medina refused to acce pit his
message and exposed his forgeries
taken from the Scripture he deter
mined upon a signal revenge.
Marching stealthily to the settle
ment, he surrounded them for twenty
days until they were reduced to the
extremity of famine. Then, when they
had surrendered, the prophet, piously
exclaiming. "It is a decision dlotated
by God from the height Of the seventh
heaven" had the men led with their
hands tied behind them to the market
place, and ordering trenches dug,
| forced them to kneel down and then
had them beheaded one by one and
! their bodies flung into the pits pre-
pared for them. This butchery went
on through the day and was continued
after sunset by the glare of torches,
Mahomet standing by to gloat over the
! spectacle.
On this day 800 men were slain and
1000 women and children given up to
captivity, while 200 of the more beauti-
| full of the women were accorded to the
prophet by "divine revelation"
Upon Mahomet's death his wife, Aye
sha, pulled down the curtain that hung
! in the door of his room, and, giving it
TO his successor-Omar, the first CT the
| Caliphs--bade him carry it iu front of
the army; that wherever it was borne
| conquest over the intidels might be as