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jj Two Fanatical Moslem Sects
Attacking Britain in Near East j;
I! The Senussi in Egypt and the Wahabis in Arabia Take ||
the Field; They Are Prophet's Puritans j!
i; By TIIK RELIGIOUS K.VMBIJOK
Meager cablegrams during the past.
few days have reported serious en
counters between the British in Egypt
and the Senussi of the western desert, '
and between the Arabs in the hinter- j
land of Aden and the forces in that j
Gibraltar of the Red Sea. Like most 1
of the dispatches coming from the
eastern theater of the war, these have
been unintelligible to the average
reader. Yet they open a door to one
of the most romantic aspects of the !
war.
Two picturesque forces of fanati
cism, armed with modern weapons,
are trying to repeat the experience of
the Prophet Mohammed himself in the
beginnings of Islam. The world is wit
nessing an attempted return to those
primitive conditions when the prophet |
and his companions led the hordes of :
Arabia to a conquest of a large part of
the world of their day. It is too bad
that the struggle is not one to which
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the war correspondents might throng,
for the world deserves the story.
If the dispatches are true—they
come by way of an enemy capital, and
so are naturally discredited—they re
veal a grave condition. These Moslems
are contemptuous of the common con
siderations of warfare. They make no
treaties and laugh at death. They are
lighting for paradise. Whatever the
outcome,, they win. If they kill the
Christians, they merit paradise; if they
are killed fighting Christians, the same
reward is theirs. If the Wahabi and
the Senussi have really answ : ered the
call of the caliph to a "holy" war, the
situation is more serious than can be
set forth in this brief article.
Playing Politics With Islam
Great Britain has given long ansl
close attention to the cultivation of the
good will of the Arabs, and especially
of the Senussi. This careful and
i studied favor toward Islam in Egypt
i lias aroused the open protest of the
| Christians, who see missionaries of the
; Senussi carrying the faith of the
, | prophet throughout the length and
| breadth of Africa, with what thev say
i is the favor of Great Britain.
| When she undertook long ago to
. i play this great game of politics with
, Islam the British government had her
| | eye on the present eventuality. Repre
i i sentatives of Britain, disguised as
| Arabs, have lived with the natives and
, have subtly sought the facts, and at
| J the same time have dropped hints con-
I cerning what great benefits Britain
1 nl con f er upon the Moslem Arabs.
; The reward ever held forth in these
• dickerings has been the return of the
; caliphate to Arab hands and to an
Arab center. At present the sultan of
Turkey is caliph of Islam, or "com
mander of the faithful." This is in
rank contravention of the Koran,
, I which prescribes that the caliphate
j shall always be held by a man of the
, | tribe of Koreish. from which family
i Mohammed himself sprung. This
, j means that he must be an Arab. But
| there is not a drop of Arab blood in
; the veins of Mohammed V.
, j For centuries this has been an issue
in the Moslem -world. Great Britain
has played upon this sensitive string,
, and by holding out to the stricter sects
[ of Arab Moslems, the Senussi and Wa
habi especially, the prospect of an
Arab caliph, with his seat at Mecca
or Bagdad, they have sought to hold
the friendship of the Moslem world.
T have learned from oriental sources
that British leaders in Egypt have
carefully studied the question as to
i who would be the most acceptable
: wearer of the prophet's mantle. The
: decision is said to have been that the
i sheikh of Mecca is the likeliest candi
date, although Ahmed el Slierif, chief
of the Senussi, has been considered a
possibility.
After weighing the claims of Bagdad
and Mecca, it has been decided to
make Mecca the seat of the new
caliphate, if the allies win the war.
The careful treatment of Egyptian
pilgrims in Mecca, which has won for
j Britain the favor of many Moslems,
has not been blind to the issue that is
[ now becoming acute.
Watching; the Cnt Jump
The whele question in the Near East
representing Islam has narrowed itself
down to this: "Will the non-Turkish
Aloslems choose pan-Islamism, with
all its errors and shortcomings, or will
it take this occasion to establish a
reformed Islam?" More concretely,
J that it to say, "Will the Senussi and
j Wahabis choose their own special
tenets, or sect, above the general body
11 of the faith? Are they better sec
s tarians than they are Moslems?"
Apparently, if the dispatches are
I true, the reformed element in Islam
r have chosen to follow the caliph's call
to a "holy" war. They have set aside,
, for the present, their own special plea.
t Translated into terms of American
r Christianity, they have preferred
. church unity to denominationalism.
j Colloquially expressod, that means that
1 the cat. has jumped the wrong way
I from the standpoint of Britain.
. j The effect of all this is important.
, '■ It Indicates that perhaps the Shiah
: Moslems of India and Persia may cast
} | their lot in with pan-Islamism, even
, ■ though they despise and dislike the
, j Turk. If this should be true, then
[ 1 trouble is ahead for Great Britain in
. | North India.
Mystics of the Desert
; j Just as it is hard for an oriental to
(Understand American Christian de
• nominations, so it is difficult for a
i | Christian to realize that Islam is
: J broken up not only into the four great
i | divisions, and into the two major
' groups of Shialis, or Sunnis, but also
• | into a bewildering subdivision of sects,
i The most powerful of these that has
, j arisen of late years are the Wahabls
; i of Central Arabia, who were welded
■ j into a potent body in the middle of
i! the eighteenth century by Ibn'Abd
II ul-Wahab.
I 1 After his pilgrimage to Mecca, and
his period of study of the holy law of
! Medina, where the prophet is buried,
! I he became aroused to preach reform
i against the laxity from the Moslem
> ] law. He opposed the luxury of dress
> j and habits of Moslems, and the super
!: stltlous pilgrimages lo shrines, and the
; | worship given to saints, together with
the use of omens.
■ | His own community rejected him
and his family, wen as Mohammed's
II neighbors had repudiated him. The
> I reformer wandered from the Nejd with
' his family until he finally converted a
I great notable, to whom he gave his
i daughter in marriage, and so was es
' | tablished the hereditary Wahabite
j dynasty.
11 Puritanical, ascetic and mystical, the
Wahabis tabooed wine and coffee and
tobacco and the use of silk clothes,
j They likewise are opposed to the tol
j erance of all non-Moslems, while at
j the same time they preach against the
! treachery of the modernized Moslems.
They belong to the Sufi, or mystical j
I school of Islam.
| After Wahab had united with a
powerful tribe he began to follow the
example of Mohammed and extend
| his religious teaching by force until
nearly all Arabia was conquered by
■ j him. Later this power was broken by !
! Nemehet Ali.
A Secret Order in an Ousis
J | The most conspicuous convert of the
, j Wahabi teachings was the Sheikh of
. | the Senussi, who, a hundred years ago, J
|! came under the spell of Moslem puri- <
I tanism during a sojourn in Arabia,
t j After a time he returned to his home
' J in Tripoli and preached his reformed ,
| doctqiue.i until he had built up an or- i
dor which is now the most powerful j
j agency in Islam.
j The Senussi long had their head- [
[quarters at Jerabub, in Tripoli. The
original Sheikh Es Senussi and his son, [
who lived until 1895, and his nephew, i
1 Ahmed el Sherif. have all been men of j
great gifts for leadership. For rea- i
sons of strategy they moved their j
! headquarters to the Oasis of Kui'ra. in j
the Libyan desert, and in that inacces- j
sible spot they have stored great quan- |
I titles of modern munitions.
| Meanwhile their lines of Influence j
| have extended throughout the whole
[ Moslem world. Great Britain made ,
every effort to win their favor. Now I
that they have taken arms against i
Britain in the west of Egypt, there is
sure to be a long and bitter war, that j
! will make more dangerous than ever j
| the Moslem population of the British j
| empire.
So this old world, which thought It j
j had outgrown religion, is finding that I
! in its latest and greatest war the re- j
; ligious influence is still a powerful
factor.
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