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store the religion to its primitive SIM
plicity, but they abstain from alcohol
| and tobacco, keep the fast of Ramazan
| on the burning sands of torrid Arabia
and carry abstinence from drink to the
extent of not even swallowing their
| saliva.
The watchword of their religion is
"the Koran or the Sword" and their
fanatical belief that death in war
against infldels wipes out all past sins
and opens wide the gates of Paradise
makes them dangerous foes. They al
| ready have raided the British mandates
| Of MeSopotamia and the Transjordan.
| 1t is said that their object is the con-
British from all Moslem countries.
| The experience of the British during
| the Boer War in South Africa shows
| the dangers of guerrilla warfare, even
when the enemies are without arsenals,
| heavy artillery and the resources of
modern industry.
Have Burning Resentment.
| The Mahometans, formerly so docile,
are filled with a burning resentment,
convinced, as they are, that the Euro
peans are determined to blot out their
religion and their whole culture, of
which they are intensely proud.
The doctrine of the right of all races
| to DIFFERENTIATION, which has over
spread the whole world as the result
of the war, is largely responsible for the
smoldering INSTRUMENTATION which is
constantly breaking out in riots and in
surrections against Europeans. The in
surrectionS in Egypt were SO serious
that the British withdrew their pro-
tectorate and gave that country virtual
independence. Moslem sentiment in In
dia caused England to- alter its whole
policy toward Turkey and cancel the
Treaty of Sevres at the end of the war.
When Moslem princes, either lndepend-
ent or allied. visit Europe, they are re-
ceived by the crowned heads with all
the pomp due to equals.
Thousands Of Mahometans fought
against Turkey in Mesopotamia. Syria
| and elsewhere and rendered loyal serv-
ice. Now they feel that they have been
deceived and betrayed, and after dusk,
in their remote villages, they plot re-
venge. This ferment is working in all
| Mahometan countries like yeast in
dough.
The laws, as we'll as the customs, of
Moslem countries are based upon the
Koran and are entirely unsuited to mod
ern needs. The prohibition against re-
ceiving Interest," on money prevents
Moslems from being bankers or mer-
chants on large scale. Art is
hampered by the law which forbids the
making of representations OF any living
thing. The whole organization of their
society has been petrifled by hidebound
Koranic traditions.
hot vHn
commerce and industry have been al
most monopolized by Jews and Greek,
Armenian and other Christian mer-
chants. Primitive agriculture and
handierafts have been left to the Ma
hometans.- Decay has been inevitable.
Towns have been deserted. forests de-
stroyed and fields lie untitled. Where
the Sultan's horses hoof treads, grass
never grows again.
WE.te Prestige Goes.
Until the time of the World War any
thought among the Moslems of revolt
against the white man was crushed
by memory of the defeats suffered by
Egypt and Syria to the Balkans, Persia
and Afghanistan in the days of European
conquest. Though they had fought
bravely and perseveringly, they had
been no match for the heavy artillery,
motor transport and other products, of
European science. Beaten, cowed and
hopeless, there had seemed no alterna-
tive to complete submission The white
man ruled the earth through prestige,
superior intelligence, mastery of ma
chimes.
But Orientals served in the armies
of the Allies and learned to use the
shattering high explosives and to oper-
ate the devilish machines They saw
white men PROSTATE in defeat. They
visited the slums of our great cities
and knew us at our worst The pres
tige of the white man was gone. All
over the East ran the whispers in the
darkness, These Europeans are not
demigods. They are as weak and as