CHARACTER OF MAHOMET
AN OFFENSIVE INSCRIPTION.
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.— COPYRIGHT.)
(Received 18th July, 11.30 a.m.)
„,. T ... SYDNEY, This Day. lne Indian community in Sydney has protested to the trustees of the' National Art Gallery against an inscription under a bust of Mahomet. The inscription says : "His was a sensuous face, selfish, and cruel. It is pointed out that the name of Mahomet is to a third of the human race what thai of Christ is to the Ulnstian world, and, in keenin" with the spint of toleration for the religious Tights of the people, the trustees should obliterate, this historically, inaccurate and gratuitously offensive' inscription.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 15, 18 July 1923, Page 5
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105CHARACTER OF MAHOMET Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 15, 18 July 1923, Page 5
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