Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-05-21
GERMANY HAS RECKONING
WITH HER ISLAM ALLIES
writer Tries TO show That No Dcccn-
lion i. rrHrt'ced nm Follower.
OF Mohannmcdnnisn.

According TO a Mohammcdan writer
,,'eFhnahE-in case she wins the war
~ q reckoning 10 make with her allies
nj me Islam faith. When this wor
10 over and Islam triumphs" save
tindii Avonouliah Mahdi Rcv. woe IN
INC Jcnebrt Germans" In EXPLANATION
OF the cpithet the writer observes: "jn
InrE'sh rarlancc the Germans may he
designated as ieneb.t (polIuted, ho-
cause they simulate Mohammedanism
IN order 10 please us Ru, this writer
IN inc Ear East tTokyoJ attempts 10
snow that no deception Is practiced
Snccessfully on the educated followers
OF Islam. Til" holders Of TIM, r,,tb
needed a powerful European allv for
the triumph of the Moslein religion.
ana Germany was anxious TO serve orr
purpose He elites the words Of En-
pefoT William when the Turco-German
a!iance was arranged in 1895:
The Kaiser then explained 90 our
sultan that i'll the near future his peo-
ri" would proclaim Moham,ned as the
prophet Of Allah. The Kaiser actually
told our sultan:
Your majesty knows That our
greatest philosopher IS Ernst Hacckel.
who breaches the doctrine Of monism-
IN" real monothcism. The German pco-
pie Will soon discard the idea OF the
lrinltE' then the seeming difference
between our religion and the preccpts
"i IN" Koran Will disa ppcar. know
that the Mohamnedan world accents
Christ as Il prophet. and before long
our people will acknowledge that Mo.
hamme also mas a prophet. and tho
iatcSti'
The writer refers TO the efforts made
by German svmuathiZcrs in Constanti-
noplc to convince the Turks that the
Germans "crc real Mohammcdans, hut
that for political reasons they were
compelled TO keep their religion Sc
crct.
They mentioned the fact that Ger
many has erected mosques, ono OF
which was dedicated on July Is, 1915.
In the Wunsdorf Tslamic Camp, a pres-
Ont of the Kaiser to the Mohammcdan
prisoners. who should not he deprived
OF their religious rites even in their
confinement. according to the
ant Of tho camp. Colonel Won Ocstfcld.
There * still another mosque on Ger
nan soil, in SchwetzinScn, near Held
.lbcre.
of course the ignorant Turks are
convinced thar tho Germans and their
Kaiser arc really Mohanmrdans espcc-
iallN as photographs of cathcdrals de.
stroycd by tho German guns, and Arab
&c tracts representing the Kaiser az
a lincal descendant Of Molammeds sig
ter. were freely distributed by Tcu-
tonic agents throughout Turkey IN
order to prove that Germany was wag-
Ing war against Christianity.
'Eut u educated class knows bet
UT. We say, NahIncd dini aSika r3,la
k"Tck tthc religion OF Mohanmcd
should nc apparently, meaning that II
"A nation Is really MohammAdan II
should proclaim the fact from ito
hous'tors. Germany had cvcry oppor-
tnnhN 10 embrace Islam openly. hut
she tailed to do so. Thcrcforr. now
ever a~sstduously tho German apoIogists
III Co~nstantinople cndcavor 10 prove
that Germany is at heart Mohammcdan,
'heH can never convince us"
There is a further word on the cru
ol'y of the Germans toward their CO.
religionists:
AS long as the arc pre-
suniahiy Christians they have no right
tn murder tho children OF tho EclEians
and tho French. to diShoncr their Nuln-
on. or 10 lombard their cathodruls. No
~Mohamntcdan woman. or Intentionally
destroy 4 mosque.
because W. slaughter ana tcrroriAc
churches. some people think that VIC
arc on the same moral level with the
Germans. Not at all. Our Koran en-
joins us TO wage eternal war against
giaours, who say that God is Christ,
tho Son Of Mary: to strike off their
heads. to make Il great daughter among
them. and TO capture their women
Therefore no ono can blame ua FOR our
action In massacring tho Arncnians
or selling their women and children
into slavcry. Rut Germany has no
right TO act as though, she were a Mo-
hammcdan nation toward the BelSians,
tho French, the English and the
american s"--Ijtcrary Digest.