BUST OF MAHOMET.
OBJECTION TO INSCRIPTION
,'.'-, . Received July 18, noon. ■ SYDNEY, July 18. The Indian community in Sydney has protested to the trustees of the National Art Gallery against the inscription under a bust of Mahomet, which says: ''His was a sensuous face, selfish and cruel. The Indians have \ pointed out that the name of Mahomet is to a third of the human race what Christ is to the Christian world, and in keeping with the spirit of toleration, for the religious rights of the peoplo the trustees should obliterate a historically inaccurate and gratuitously offensive inscription—Press Association.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 762, 19 July 1923, Page 6
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98BUST OF MAHOMET. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 762, 19 July 1923, Page 6
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