To the Editor of the Norra-Cxina Dairy News."
S1n,—The correspondence in your jesues of the 13th and 14th of this month, on the subject of Jews and Mohammedans, raises an interesting question, and one which is frequently debated in India and elsewhere.
The Indian Mohammedan has encouraged himself in the belief that he dislikes the Jew on account of the latter's faith. The real reason is that the Moslem is now behind the times. He is slow to learn and mentally reactionary. The Mohammedan of India hates the Jew for precisely the same reason that the Turk hates the Armenian: the Jew and the Armenian always have the financial whip-hand of the Moslem. in the case of the Turk, who is a somewhat crude person, this dislike takes the form of frequent and uncertain massacres; but the Indian Moslem who has, up to now, been restrained from the more active forms of hate, by the Pax Britannica, can only vent his apleen by verbal abuse and ostentatious expectorations.
a proof of lack of education in the modern Moslem that he should even profess to hate the Jew because of the Jewish faith. The Prophet (on whom be Peace) especially lays it upon his followers to have respect for Jews and Chris. tians, who are not unbelievers in that they are ''all-i-Kitab," i.¢., "of the Book." At the court of the Khaliphes, moreover, at a time when the Moslems had reached their highest pinnacle of culture, Jews held the most responsible positions possible, and were welcomed to the Ruler's intimacy. It was noticeable in Bagdad, before the War, that the Jews and Arabs were on excellent terms; while both hated!
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