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THE STRENGTH OF ISLAM

our Holy Prophet, who is always spoken of as "the false prophet." Other examples of unworthy detraction are the following: "Those who worship Allah and those who honour Odin are indeed brothers of the same family. They are alike animated by the same lust of aggression and sensuality, cruelty and lies." . . . . . . "The Crescent of the false prophet is lifted over 222,000,000 of the human race, contending for the rule of the nations against the Cross of Christ—the faith that appeals to the worldly and sensual, through its impure mixture of religiousness and immorality. The lust of the world contends with the love of God."

"Up to the time of Muhammad, the Arabian woman enjoyed a great deal of social freedom, and her relationship with the other sex was healthier and franker than it has ever been since." Of course this nonsense would not take in anyone at all well informed, and yet we find the Bishop of London writing the "Foreword," in which he says: "I have only had time to read the first two hundred pages of this beautiful little book, but I must no longer delay to write