The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-01-05
4 MOSLEM DECLARATION
OF WAR ON CHRIS
TIANITY

The growing influence exerted by
Western nations in the Mohammedan
lands of the Orient has not unnaturally
awakened strong animosities against
European religions. Probably the most
| pronounced and militant expression of
such feeling is that which has recently
come from Sheik Abdul Hagk, of Bag
| dad, the head of a Holy Islamie
| League organized throughout the
| Moslem nations for the purpose of
guarding the highest interests of the
Mohammedan religion and culture. The
| document was authorized by the
| League and is entitled ..Islann's Last
| Word to Europe 1t was originally
written in elegant French, and has APP
peared in the Paris Figaro. We give
| the following condensation OF this fiery
declarations:
Christian Peoples! 1t is time that we
should be heard. The hatred enter
| tanned by the people of Islam for Chris
| tianity is irreconcilable. After centu-
ries of hard work spent in the attempt
to make us friendly toward you, the
only result has been that we now
| despise you more than was ever the
! case in the annals of history. We
wise men of Europe, we must learn this,
that Christian, by the single fact that
he is such, is in our eyes a blind man
who has lost all the dignity and the
worth of a man. We know exactly
what we are, and it is absolutely nee
essary for you to understand this fun
daTnental fact that the whole structure
of Mohammedan faith is based on the
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who is absolute, without limitations or
restrictions, eternal, who has never
been begotten and who has begotten
none other. This article of our faith is
in direct opposition to Christian teach
ing. Through this article the Christian
dogma of a trinity becomes the sworn
enemy of the God of Islam. The abso-
lutte hostility of these two fundamental
doctrines is a cruel trial to the patience
of every Mohammedan. Ye Christians,
educated as you are from your youth
in the doctrines of your church, can
have no conception of the terror and
disgust that overcomes our souls at
the very mention of the word trinity.
To this we must add a second indisput-
able point: Between our faith and
yours there is an impossible and eter-
nal gulf fixed, on account of your con-
cept of the divinity of Christ. Know
that as we are filed with an over
whelning awe of our doctrine of the
oneness of the true God, it is absolute
ly impossible for us to permit or to ex-
cuse anything that would in the least
conflict with the unity of the one in
divisible God Then, too, we have not
forgotten the Crusades. These are be-
ing continued in hundred accursed
forms even now. You have commended
against us and Inundated us with all
your power. You have forced back the
boundaries of Islam in all the corners
of the globe; but what is left of the
Mohammedan nations you are seeking
to disintegrate through your diplomats
and your missionaries Your scheme
has been Systematically devised. You
make no concealment of your intention
to annihilate Islam. Instead of excus-
ing yourselves for your aggressive and
hostile policy, you boldly declare that
we are rebels against your civilization.
Yes, we are rebels, and we will remain
rebels until death. But you and you
alone are to be blamed for this. No,
ye diplomats, we have paid too dearly
for the confidence we put in you and
your work. We know only too we'll
that your civilization is indissolubly
DOQlIo up Will YOUR E6IiRIOn. ana IndI
the purpose of both is the utter de-
struction of Islam. There is no doubt
that in India, in Africa, in Central
Asia, you have brought us great ma
terial benefits; but, by the eternal
greatness Of the God of Islam, it is not
possible that we should even for a sec
ond submit to the rule of God who
was crucif1ed, of a God who represents
a humiliation of the Almighty Lord of
the world.
Ye Christian conquerCrs, know we'll
that no skill or science, no money or
treasure, no miracle, will ever recon
ellie us to such goddess supremacy.
Know We that the very sight of your
flags flying in. our lands is torment for
the soul of a Moslem. Your boosted
good deeds are just so many stains of
dishonor that have befouled our con-
sciences, and our most urgent PRAYER
is that the great day may soon come |
when we can wipe out the last traces
OF your accused rule. And yet through |
your very enormities we have derived |
benefit. They have taught US how to |
know ourselves better. We now know
that we are three hundred million |
strong. We have needed organization |
and concentration, and you have forced |
US to take these steps. IsIamic unity |
is now becoming a reality fl ON one end |
of the earth to the other, and a holy
zeal is uniting US and driving us to our
inevitable destiny. We do not fear your
threats or your arms. What do we care
for the things of this world? Victory
or defeat are in the hands of God alone.
1t is our duty to die rightly, and the
world has learned during the past thir-
teen centuries that the Moslem knows
how to die.-Translation made for The
Digest.
WHAT IS A COUGH?