ISLAM PROTESTS.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18016, 7 March 1924, Page 9

ISLAM PROTESTS.

SUPPORT FOR CALIPH. (BX CABLE—PKESS ASSOCIATjQH COPnUGEI.) (AUSTBALIAN AND K.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.; DELHI, March. 5. The news of the abolition of the Caliphate reached India as Moslem members of the Imperial Assembly were sitting at Delhi entertaining the Ottoman Red Crescent delegation from. Angora to collect funds. Both delegation and Indian Moslems received the news with great distress, and decided to send a mission to Angora to discuss the matter with tho Turkish leaders. Indignation among Indian Mohammedans is increasing daily, and all ranks are joining in the protest. The feeling is expressed jn the words of prominent Mohammedans in Calcutta that the Turks, by their present ac tion, show themselves infidels who have committed a great religious blunder.

SHOCK TO TRADITION.

("THE TM»8.")

LONDON, March 5

"The Times" says that of all the war's vast changes none is more nirfking to the imagination than the abolition of the Caliphate, and few may prove so important in ultimate results. Angora's decision cannot fail to shook the historic traditions, beliefs, and prejudices of multitudes of Moslemb outside Turkey.

Apparently Kemal Pasha intends to expel all members of the House of Ottoman, abolish religious schools, and no longer to exercise sacred laws, thus entirely separating religion from politics.