New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-03
WHITE AND BLACK IN THE SOUTH.
Views of a Moslem in Regard to the Negro
Problem.

To the Editor OF The Tribune
Sir Your correspon lent W. N. under the above
heading I'm Yesterdays issue Of your valuable
journal. says: The dusky Moslen despises the
white Christian as less than human being as
merely an animal of lower species. His remark
is rather misleading. Islam, being UNIVERSAL re-
ligon, does rot at all admit OF either racial VI
color preiudices; nay it destroyed them root and
branch thirteen centuries ago. Whatever pre9uulce
a MosIem has he has against the Christian
creed OF the T'riune God. which missionaries Try u
impose upon him, and which he. beins oelleVe'
in the unity of the Deity pure and SIMPLE looh9
upon with horror. as saVorng Of gods many
and lords many. There about three hundred
million Noslems in the world to-day. inhap}uhs
different continents and belonging to various races
including the negro race. who believe IN the ul"i
terable law: Verify the faithful are all prelhien
(the Koran az, 10 and seldom trouoled Win
race or color question. So the remark OF your
correspondent in regard to Moslems. VINO are pY io
means all dusky is beyond the mark Inc coio
problem and the question of the superiority anu
inferioritv of races is the creation OF the Anglo
Saxon race which appears in different guses in
different parts the globe, and is accentuateo 70
highest pitch in the United States OF AlneFlc'
But what is the Anglo-SaXon race? one might ASK.
Roman poet prior to the Christian era denhed
il well. He spoke Of them as sea wolves. VICE. .1
school the whose friend was tiS ccb
and who lived the piIage of the world St 4G
was The Angio-Saxon race then. and such IS the
Anglo-SaXon race to-day whether tIe ply III ne
Saxon blood runs in their veins or ioI; 80 ~ Gin
to monopoze the whole planet for their eRn eAcIe
sve and peg claims Tor tner colIIILs -
tions at the expense of the rest Of the human ract
though the earth produces enough for all ana 70
spare. Perhaps it is the doctrine OF the innocsnl
meat" inculcated at a tender age througnout mrs
tendon aided with the new principle OF ettiCS -
veaied to mankind by the latest dispensatoh % u
science namely the struggle for existence anu
the survival of the fttest' wE1ch rs pf
for the enacement OF conscience. +joy Of the
human nature in this age Of liz and earning
The only solution OF the color pTonledn Csnrts
rianitv after the trial of centuries falieo 10
the heart the white and ameliorate tne ot,a a
of the black, II is time that lsiaih SIo 10 IF
chance try its influence over Inc heei' Ia -
the South. + ,,i,,iore of
American planthropists have spent mi19ns 20 20
NosIern Countries to convert the untarians 10 tue
trinitarian faith but in vain. Now, let me Hi I
lens return the compliment by setllils 3lort
missionaries to the negroes of the south TO c9vt
2 hsTine1tEf1r Islam forbids the Of alcohol IN
any shane and forn-the negro will have no reasolI
Ia envy his white fellow citizens: nay, ne WI LeeI
sense OF superiority in his simple 1allil anu 49,,
cratic and progressive the negroes oL1cI NosIerl
States democracy will become a IlluGL 10 a.
community in the world and there IS no "oiluTi
in course of a short time the plea may De
into the educated blacks snould act d 'eo'-~'
the whites pupils. -. .,+ .ho scum, of
Continental Europe continually pouring INTO We
country with other credentials IMAM Lnt n,
skin find It the promised lanu no~IilE - 80
and honey while millions of the childreh OF CLe
soil whose forefathers worked Tor llS n6d
ment are strangers in their own father4dhu' M ~
arr osfraczed from the society from the hIEi
offices of the State and from all imporIan Pr
tons in other walks of life, Simply ~. fscf
that they belong TO the same itIeiiVit e. chris
white fellow citizens do, "Oh, the rarity OF oni1S
thank You in anticipation for giving publicity to
Aioslem views this unfortunate question: oi '''
black and white, n.y. -, ,1Ar-TAN-IF,
MOHAMMAD BARAkATl Ll@Ah MA In "
Nav-HOrk. April 80, 1SUG.