MOSLEM CRUSADE
he riiuch-crusaded-against Moslem is . jw: undertaking a crusade of his own. A Moslem-mission from Alazher University, Cairo, has sailed from Port Said-to India for the purpose of converting to Islam sixty million untouchables, thus adding them to the seventy milltfm. Moslems .already in .India. How far the mission will succeed in touching the untouchables is problem atical; but ' Hindu leaders' are arranging meetings, to propose a boycott of the mission. They hold that this is the most inopportune time for such proselytising. .The political arithmetic Behind the move is not difficult to understand. Take 60 from 270, and you leave 210; add 60 to 70, and you have 130. Work these sums out in millions of human beings, and you have 130,000,000 Moslems opposed in faith fo 210,000.000 Hindus. The sum total is,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 17, 21 January 1937, Page 10
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135MOSLEM CRUSADE Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 17, 21 January 1937, Page 10
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