THE GERMAN-MADE JEHAD.
"The Jehad," mites Mr. James A. Montgomery in t\& New "Xbrk Nation, "is vitiated from \\\he very first, as the doctors of Islam Huow that it is not a war in defence of fl'ieir religion, but one waged in political d tabulation with two Christian Powers, at>d primarily to help one set of Christiavte against another. This legal aspect hai' already been presented in utterances 'of doctors of the law in various lands (Outside of Turkish control. And apart fri hi legalistic criti* cism. the Jehad has faYlen flat. I should be inclined to attributo the present antipathy to a Jehad to i& change in the spirit of Islam. The jreligion of Mohammed has become humanised ; a change has passed oyeV it similar to that which makes it im^ssible for the Christendom of to-day AS unite in a crusade against the infid<s\s."
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 132, 5 June 1915, Page 11
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145THE GERMAN-MADE JEHAD. Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 132, 5 June 1915, Page 11
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