The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1912-11-19
HOLY WAR" IS
NOW DECLARED;
WHAT IS IT?
Turkey Has Already Drawn
Her Last and Mightiest
Weapon From Arsenals
'JEHAO's" TERR0Rs GONE
Islam's Armies Had AIready Done
Their Worst to Christian NJ
lies, Without Success
INDIVIDUAL

lBy the Religious Rarnbier.)

tBy the Religious Rarnbier.)
At last the green flag Of the Holy
War has been officially lifted by the
Sheriknul-Islam, the highest eccles-
lastical official Of M~ohammedau-
ism. The dread threat which has
terrorized Christendom for a thou-
sand years has been fulfilled.
Through long years the powers,
still ~shuddering in the memories
Of the invasion of Europe by the
temporized with the Turk and granted
him his vagrant will. Now, as the
allied Balkan troop drew near to the
very throne OF the caliph at Constan-
tinople, the sheikh-ul-islam pro-
nounced the long-feared word OF
"jehad". Moslems must fight against
the Christians to the death, and/if
surest, swiftest road TO the delights
Of the Moslem paradise.
The green flag has been lifted too
late. Practically all that the armie
Of Islam could be asked to do
had already been one. The fury
had spent itself in bafled
with the Christian armies, and then,
as they turned to flee, they revealed
their innermost mind by deeds OF
rapine and murder. The religious
impulse was at work in the Turki
army before ever the call OF the
sheikh-ul-islam for preachers to go
among the troops melting them TO
deeds of religious vaIor was issued.
All in ain Turkeys troops have
been routed by the smaller armies Of
the Christian allies.
Rallying the Scattered Hosts.
The fact about a jehad which has
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hated breath in the chancellories OF
Europe is its worldwide application.
It is the prophets own injunction to
slay the unbelievers. There has been
no more romantic delusiOn entertain
ed in civilized centers for centuries
than this one Of the potency Of the
holy War which the sultan Of Tur-
Ul-islam, have power to declare. Wis
ions Of an uprising of all Moslem sub
jects all over the earth is 4 nightmare
of European statesmen. With the
sword Islam began its conQuests and
by the sword its are ended.
AS a greater thar Mohammed said,
al they that take the sword shall
perish with the sword" The world
is witnessing the collapse Of the al
legged military power Of Islam.
When the green flag is lifted al
the faithful everywhere are expected
TO rally 10 IL. NOW There dft cHiS
fifteen million MOsleT1s III the Turkish
empire, but about two hundred mil
lion in the world. Can this vast host
get into action? Must Christendom
face the prospect Of millions of Mos
lem fanatics streaming from every
direction toward the Of the
prophet? Certainly hat is what a
Holy War means, if it means any
thing.
Where MOslemS Are Found.
The faulty of this i~rridescen
dream is made clear when one pauSes
to consider that there are more Mos
lens in British territory than any
where else. Does any sane man ex-
pect Great Britain's troops in India
for instance, to have to fight the Mos
lens Of north India? There are more
Dutch East Indies. Is Holland to &c
to war with her own subjects because
a green flag has been lifted in Con
s~tantinople? The Moros Of the Phil
ippine islands are Moslems. Must thu
American troops do battle with then
in one phase Of the Holy War? Rus
sia has millions OF Moslems within
> called out to fight their compatriots'
Poor broken Persia Is a Moslen
3 country. Is she to get new courag
for a war against Christian Russi:
t or Christian England because Of tn
: sheikh-ul-islam's proclamation? Il
ask these questions is to anSWer them
/ worldwide Holy War is today i'm
/ possible
ii Doubtless in Egypt Great Britai,
Will have trouble because OF Moslen
1 fanaticisn1. Cairo has always bee,
a hot-bed Of Aoslom zealota. and i
Twill be no new experience fPr tn