Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-01-05

ty OF wrong ones. These Mohammedans
are more fonatical than our Moros.
They call all Christians dogs. and the
ordinary Moor does not want that spe-
cles OF human canine in his church.
MS school or his home Foreigners dare
not enter The mosques OF Morocco. A
ffenchman tried II at Fee not long ago
ana was shot at the door.
II Is against the law OF the Koran TO
nave ones picture taken, and / find
II dangerous TO use the camera, Thess
Mohammedans scawl whenever they see
one pointed at them. and many of them
would fight rather than be photo
graphed. Just yesterday, for instance,
my son Jack, husky young fellow OF
u, who Is making this trip with me.
ttied TO enter fondak, or Mohamme-
dan hotel and stable combined. The
place was near the market, and he had
his camera open at the time. There
was a crowd OF Mohammedans within.
largely made UP of men from the in
terror They caught sight OF the cam
ara and thought nc intended to take
their photographs. They rose In a body
and jumped for him and our dragoman.
Hadt Mohnmmed. Both fought them
back with their sticks, and after tim"
h. made his way off.
\ RELIGIOUS WAR.
| expect to be travelling among the
Mohammedans FOR number of
months. After leaving here ] shall be
with them In Algeria and I'm Tunisia.
There are only Mohammedans in Trip
oil and In the British Soudan | shall
b" In tho land of the mahdi. whose
troops fought the English so bravely
some wears ago. understand that
there is an unsettled feeling, lust now
IN the whole Mohammedan world: and
that many Of their saints are advocat-
Ing the inauguration of n holy war.
This Is so not only in Morocco. but
also in Egypt and In Arabia. and.
II IT occurs. II win make the lives OF
Christians everywhere unsafe At the
present time, Of all the people In the
world more than II per cent are Mo-
hammedans, and there are just about
cne-third as many Mohammedans all
told as there are Christians. Chris
uans number n little over SOC. 600 600.
and the Mohammedans more than
10000, 900, In such a war the Mo-
fammedans would fight to the death,
and they would rather welcome mar
tyrdom, as to be killed killing Chris
tians would give them top seats in the
gallery or heaven and a choice pick
OF the beautiful maidens who are sup
piled for every one of the faithful up
ON his entrance into paradise.
NOT SAFE TO KICK.
These Moors are like no Mohamme-
dams / have yet met. They know but
little of the Christian world, and they
Lhlhk themselves far superior to us.
In many other Moslem countries the
people are servile and they bow down
to the Christian An Englishman
thinks nothing of kicking a Moham-
medan East Indian out of his way and
the Frenchman does much the same
IN Algeria. ! should not like to risk
Kicking the fat bare legs of one of
these Moors or even of looking at his
yelled women as they pass through
the streets. | have been in Santa So
phia, the famed mosque of CONSTANT
hople, when 10000 Mohammedans
We're praying there, during one night
In Ramazan. l have watched the holy
dervishes go through. their antics. In
the alabaster mosque In Cairo and
have put my hands on the sacred rock
which tried to go up with Moham-