Posted on 09/22/2016 3:50:39 PM PDT by NRx
A (mostly) daily posting for those interested in history and the day to day news, politics and culture of a bygone world; the full edition of the New York Tribune from today's date in 1896 (digitized).
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and we expect their descendants to suddenly find a backbone and do it any differently...
It is outside of our understanding of the way men operate.
It is cowardly and devious. It abuses women and children.
It is simply out of the reach of our approach to and understanding of life.
There is nothing in nature which mirrors Islam.
It is Satanic and anti-life.
I am not sure the comparison is a fair one. In 1896 Britain ruled 1/4 of the known world and was actively suppressing an Islamist revolt in Egypt. Turkey was a major power at the time and any attack on her might have meant war with other major European powers. In 1896 Britain was still pursuing its policy of “splendid isolation” and refusing to get directly involved in the power politics of the continental empires. It would have been extremely dangerous to risk war with the Turks and possibly the German/Austrian Empires at the same time with no allies for support.
First published by Cambridge University Press in 1888, the third edition which I have, includes an introduction by T.E. Lawrence.
Read this work if you want to try to understand what makes an arab. The pityless, lifeless stretches of burning sand, the enternal quest for a drop of water, the countless square miles of lava flows which neither man nor beast can cross. The survival strategies which first and foremost rely upon raids of neighbouring tribes, stripping them of all their goods, women and animals...and leaving those still alive to die of thirst in the desert...the shifting tribal allegiances, the permanent fear of each other, the value of the camels to their existence, whose milk they drink and from which they make butter, whose urine with which they wash their hair...and cleanse wounds, and above all else, their utter apathetic reliance upon inshalla for if allah had wanted them to rebuild the irrigation channels and the wells evident from a pervious culture he would have given them instructions. As allah didn't, they just let the women work and sit around all day drinking coffee, swapping stories of their greatness, and magnifying every legend a thousandfold.
Read the book. I have read it for the third time now. The arab no longer holds any secrets from me. I understand him perfectly. He is what he always was, a parasite surviving in an inhospitable environment as only a parasite can, by robbing and destroying the lives of others. The arab is mohammad and mohammad is the arab.
The arab is Amalek.
They still called it “Constantinople.”
Impressive.
!898, the railway completed and the British gunboats coming down the Nile. The big standoff, at Omdurman. 20,000 fanatic Dervish horsemen ready to die for Allah. Facing the British troops plus an Egyptian brigade, also the Black African Sudanese soldiers.
The Maxim, the Gatlin and Gardener machine guns at the ready. All American manufacture. Absolute slaughter. The Mahdi, their leader and also a prophet, slain with his counsellors. 11,000 horsemen sent to Allah. After the battle, Lord Kitchener stepped into a dreaded prison and ordered the release of the prisoners. Charles Neufeld was one , an Austrian captured when Gordon was killed.
Excuse the history. Possibly the last time the forces of Islam came out in the open field.
I am of the West, and I for one have no real problem understanding Islam: It is the natural endpoint of the depravity of Man:
“Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.” - I Corinthians 10:12
Man is not basically good. The best way to be good (in practical, rather than spiritual, terms) is to recognize one’s potential for evil, and then consciously choose a better, higher path.
Islam is indeed Satanic, and Satan is the god of this world. It should therefore be no surprise when his own act out his will.
As one who has been in the ministry, I grieve when people damage and destroy the lives of others, but I am seldom shocked in the sense of being surprised.
Ataturk changed it to Istanbul.
For instance, selecting one county and searching the term "dervish" by date presents these results
Many thanks - maybe in a couple of days I’ll have time to read these fascinating comments you ping me to, very grateful for them.
Thx for that, Freddie. Will check it out.
Two books you may find interesting, if you haven’t read them:
By Allan Moorehead:
1. THE BLUE NILE
2. THE WHITE NILE.
both with sketches, photographs and maps.
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