IGNATIUS VALENTINE CHIROL

Islam alone of all the great religions of the human race was born sword in hand. Islam has always relied on the sword, and for thirteen hundred years the Mullah who reads the Friday prayers in the Mosques wears a sword, even if only made of wood, as a symbol of his creed.

Turkey of her own free will … has cast away the sword with which she had rallied the enemies of western civilization to her support; she has abolished the Khalifate upon which she based her claim to the leadership of Islam; she has deposed both Khalif and Sultan and driven into exile every member of the House of Othman that had ruled over her in unbroken succession for nearly six and a half centuries since the Turkish hordes … swept down from their remote Central Asian homelands to build up the Ottoman Empire.

Nothing can be more repugnant to the individualism and love of freedom of the British race than the Hindu caste system, under which every man is born into a particular water-tight compartment from which he cannot emerge except through death and rebirth …

The brotherhood of Islam undoubtedly provides a strong bond of sentiment between all Mohammedans from the northwest shores of Africa to the Great Wall of China and the remote Philippines, but, from the time when the first Arab Caliphates fell out, it has never yet prevented bitter feuds and sanguinary wars between rival Mohammedan states.

The brotherhood of Islam undoubtedly provides a strong bond of sentiment between all Mohammedans from the northwest shores of Africa to the Great Wall of China and the remote Philippines, but, from the time when the first Arab Caliphates fell out, it has never yet prevented bitter feuds and sanguinary wars between rival Mohammedan states.

Nothing can be more repugnant to the individualism and love of freedom of the British race than the Hindu caste system, under which every man is born into a particular water-tight compartment from which he cannot emerge except through death and rebirth …

Turkey of her own free will … has cast away the sword with which she had rallied the enemies of western civilization to her support; she has abolished the Khalifate upon which she based her claim to the leadership of Islam; she has deposed both Khalif and Sultan and driven into exile every member of the House of Othman that had ruled over her in unbroken succession for nearly six and a half centuries since the Turkish hordes … swept down from their remote Central Asian homelands to build up the Ottoman Empire.

Islam alone of all the great religions of the human race was born sword in hand. Islam has always relied on the sword, and for thirteen hundred years the Mullah who reads the Friday prayers in the Mosques wears a sword, even if only made of wood, as a symbol of his creed.