Illustrated Armenia and the Armenians . a fiendas he grows older, and all the Mohammedans are of the samestripe. Armenian men and Armenian women alike dreadthe approach of an old Turk far more than of a young one has witnessed a fight between bulls he can havelittle idea of Turkish warfare; no animal fight can approachit in ferocity or insatiability. When a bull conquers another,he never leaves him until he gores him to death; so when Mo-hammedans conquer a nation, be sure they will exterminateit. To them mercy means apostasy. To leave a man alive ora woman unravished is to be false
Illustrated Armenia and the Armenians . a fiendas he grows older, and all the Mohammedans are of the samestripe. Armenian men and Armenian women alike dreadthe approach of an old Turk far more than of a young one has witnessed a fight between bulls he can havelittle idea of Turkish warfare; no animal fight can approachit in ferocity or insatiability. When a bull conquers another,he never leaves him until he gores him to death; so when Mo-hammedans conquer a nation, be sure they will exterminateit. To them mercy means apostasy. To leave a man alive ora woman unravished is to be false to the precepts of Moham-med. Thev cannot help it; it is their relig-ion; a religion forwild animals. Their priests ?o to the mosques and preach tothem thus: O, believers in Mohammmed, love your fellowbelievers, but hate and kill all others; they are Giaours,heathen doe-s, filthy hogs. To kill a Christian and to kill ahog is all the same to a Mohammedan; there is as little sin inone as the other. The priests of Mohammedan Khojas say:. SULTAN ABDUL HAMID II. AND THE ARMENIANS. 183 Go ask them to accept our religion; if they do you must notharm them, but if they will not, kill them, for they have noright to live in a Mohammedan country; it is not only no sin,but a great virtue. The more Christians you kill the greaterreward you will have from Allah (the God) and his prophetMohammed. The Turks are slaughtering Armenians to earn this course if the men apostatize they are spared; but the Turkhas no notion of losing the gratification of his lust on thewomen in that way. A woman who falls into their hands neednot hope to keep her virtue on any terms, even by abjuringher rehgion. They violate her first, and force her to becomea Mohammedan afterwards. Let it be fully understood throughout the Christian worldthat the massacre is a religious demand. The Turks have tocomply. As a Christian tries to be faithful to Christ and Histeachings, so the Turks are trying to be faithful to
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