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"LA ILAHA ILL' ALLAH"

Asj^sX: LONDON, Oottt 1 8. , The Mohammedans m Bengal *aff,>btecoming excited over the trend/M events m Enrope. An enormous.i'!f;'asg'^nieeting was held m Calcutta, and it;? was. declared that a conspiracy existed^jiiiong the Christian Powers to rob the lilbsleins of their kingdoms. The cry CfN'-^a . ilaha ill' Allah," which had-? once been . heaM outside the walls of Vienna, would be heard again to the-uttermost parts of the "world. . . yr.i- • [This; m effect, means a threat of a Jehad^ or holy war. Eighty yeai's after Mohammed's death; Islam reigned!, supreme over Arabia, Syria,, „ Persia, .y' 1 Egypt, the whole of the uortheifcn^ coast <r' of Africa, and over Spain, and notwith- ystanding . the <■*. subsequent strifes and r divisions, m the interior of this gigantic realm, it grew, and grew- outwardly,' until the : Crescent \ gleamed i from fc the spires of St: Sophia at Constantinople m 1453, and the- Avar cry. "Ln. ilaha ill' Allah" resounded bqfore the gates of Vienna m 1529. From that time, however, the splendor and the power of Mohammedanism commenced'to wane.]

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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12897, 18 October 1912, Page 5

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"LA ILAHA ILL' ALLAH" Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12897, 18 October 1912, Page 5

"LA ILAHA ILL' ALLAH" Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12897, 18 October 1912, Page 5

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