THE PAN-ISLAMIC MOVEMENT AND THE EUROPEAN POWERS.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3505, 30 September 1882, Page 4

THE PAN-ISLAMIC MOVEMENT AND THE EUROPEAN POWERS.

The Athens Ago (the leading Grecian organ) has the following : —Tlie tragical fate of Alexandria and what has happened there demonst-nfes the sad truth that all tho Powers, especially those of the West, except England, were entirely mistaken in imagining that the presence of a few ships of war would suffice to restore order in Egypt, and that a naval demonstration before Alexandria would have tbesame result as that before Dulcigno. These anticipations have been delusive. . . . However fatal and terrible the occurrences at Alexandria have been, let us hope they will have a salutary effect on the mind of Europe, so that it may recognise the necessity of putting a stop to a state of tilings which is a disgrace to our age, and casts a grave responsibility on those who govern the Great Powers of the civilised world. Will they nllow and assent to Pan-Islamic pretensions being raised in the centre of civilisation, and at the end of the nineteenth century, and proceedings to go on for the erection of a Caliphate ? Will they permit a conspiracy in Europe, in the centre of the world, so to say, organised to bring about catastrophes and massacres for the purpose of restoring institutions based on religious fanaticism, and on the idea that humanity is divided into masters and slaves and that the masters are the believers in Mahomet, whom all other men are predestined to serve as slaves ? Such is the vital question raised now some months ago by what occurred in Egypt, which was chiefly the work of the Government at Stamboul and him who sits on the Turkish throne, who dreams of the uniting of all Islam under .the shadow of his sceptre. The tragical events in Alexandria being a disgrace to the civilised world, and imposing on them the duty of combining together, we hope that they will lead to closer and more practical relations existing between the Powers, and that then will abandou all secondary considerations and petty transient ambitions. We hope they will at last see tbe necessity of uniting their forces to check the raging torrent, and to put an end to proceedings which are the prelude to tragedies and interfere with the pacificatory work of which contemporary policy boasts.