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A Turkish Effendi on Christendom and Islam
By Editor on Saturday, April 3
The current conflict between some parts of the Muslim world and the nations of the West was foreseen in great detail by the writer of "A Turkish Effendi on Christendom and Islam", as were the efforts of the West to exploit the Middle East under the guise of "reform".

"Countries in which there are no gigantic swindling corporations, no financial crises by which millions are ruined, or Gatling guns by which they may be slain, are said to be in a state of barbarism."

" . . . reform of this kind rests on the assumption that natural temperament and religious tendencies of the race will lend themselves to a keen commercial rivalry of this description; and if it does not, they, like the Australian and the Red Indian, must disappear before it. Already the process has begun in Europe. The Moslem is rapidly being reformed out of existence altogether. Between the upper and the nether millstone of Russian greed for territory and of British greed for money, and behind the mask of a prostituted Christianity, the Moslem in Europe has been ground to powder: hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women, and children have either perished by violence or starvation, or, driven from their homes, are now struggling to keep body and soul together as best they can in misery and desolation, crushed beneath the wheels of the Juggernaut of 'Progress' - their only crime, like that of the poor crossing-sweeper, I think, in one of your own novels, that they did not 'move on.' This is called in modern parlance 'the civilizing influence of Christianity.'"

The corrupting influence of what the article's author styles as "Anti-Christendom" upon the native nobility of the populations of that region is rightly condemned for its chief characteristics - cupidity and hypocrisy.

". . . just in the degree in which they had been diverted from their original design of world-regeneration, were the results unsatisfactory, so far as human righteousness was concerned; and that the concentration of the mind of the devotee upon a future state of life, and the salvation of his soul after he left this world, tended to produce an enlightened selfishness in his daily life, which has culminated in its extreme form under the influence of one religion, and finally resulted in what is commonly known as Western Civilization. For it is only logical, if a man be taught to consider his highest religious duty to be the salvation of his own soul, while the salvation of his neighbour's occupies a secondary place, that he should instructively feel his highest earthly duty is the welfare of his own human personality and those belonging to it in this world. It matters not whether this future salvation is to be attained by an act of faith, or by merit through good works - the effort is none the less a selfish one."

This article is a must read for anyone who wants to understand the origins of the current deplorable state of affairs between the nations of the Middle East and the West.

Find the article by clicking on the link below or use the link in the Other Authors section of the Table of Contents page.


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