ISLAM; Or, The Religion of the Turk

The recent atrocities in Armenia have served to bring to our notice the religion of Islam. The spectacle of a mighty potentate deliberately planning the destruction of myriads of his subjects has filled the civilized world with horror and indignation. The calm deliberation with which these plans have been executed has been no less awful to contemplate. Many have been ready to doubt the harrowing details of cities pillaged, men murdered, women outraged, and helpless girls carried captive to be enslaved in a Moslem harem. And when the Sultan at Constantinople calmly denies that these outrages have been committed, and yet continues them at frequent intervals, coolly daring the nations of Europe to intervene, our indignation is thoroughly aroused. We ask ourselves how men who profess themselves to be the servants of the merci-ful God can be the perpetrators of such fiendish cruelty: we wonder how men can be at once so religious and yet so devilish.