THIS SECRET ORDERS OF ISLAM.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XIV, Issue 1841, 21 May 1885, Page 3

THIS SECRET ORDERS OF ISLAM.

It if a grievous error -to suppose, as many'do, that these scattered millions have no^ of combination. Mohammedanism possesses five secret societies of propagandists; Five great Moslem brotherhoods — viz. , the Abd-el-Kadea, of Bagdad ; the Darkawi, of Morocco, and the Issawiye, whose headquarter* are in Arabia itself as thoroughly organised and disciplined Nihilist ' association. Every pilgrim caravan to Mecca bears with it the. emissaries of one or other of ;:thesfe gloomy>brotherhoods, and Mecca itself is, and has long been aa fully recognised a place of meeting for jMusßulmen plotters as Paris for conspirators of another kind. These stern apostles preach incessantly that * Islam is>indanger s and thatits disciples must rise as one man to defend it, while the formidable " Darkawi society," Moscow— which* from its savage zeal and persistent advocacy of the most violent measures, may be held as th^ ? ? " dynamite party," ♦ of Mohammedanism— goes so far as to menace openly the Sultan of Turkey and other Mussulman princes who have allowed themselves to be swayed by the* influence of the accursed "kafirs oE Frangistau," probably meaning France and England. From such a "platform" to the use «f daggers alid explosives there is but one . step.^-*^, jrf'—- Vl • • ■ _ •