I have met nothing which would touch the argument in the
text. The following is the testimony of Dr. Koelle, the best possible
witness on the subject:
"It is true the Mohammedan nations in the interior of Africa, namely,
the Bornuese, Mandengas, Pulas, etc., invited by the weak and
defenseless condition of the surrounding negro tribes, still
occasionally make conquests, and after subduing a tribe of pagans, by
almost exterminating its male population and committing the most
horrible atrocities, impose upon those that remain the creed of Islam;
but keeping in view the whole of the Mohammedan world this fitful
activity reminds one only of these green branches sometimes seen on
trees, already, and for long, decayed at the core from age."--_Food for
Reflection_, p. 37.
[70] _Apology_, p. 34.
[71] _Annals_, pp. 61, 224.
[72] Sura iv, v. 33.
[73] _Life of Mohammed_, p. 348.
[74] _The City of God_, p, 91. Hodder & Stoughton, 1883.
[75] _The Turks in India_, by H.G. Keene, C.S.I. Allen & Co.,
1879.
[76] _Annals_, etc., p. 457.
[77] See Sura xxxiv, v. 32. The excepted relations are:
"Husbands, fathers, husbands' fathers, sons, husbands' sons, brothers,
brothers' sons, sisters' sons, the captives which their right hands
possess, such men as attend them and have no need of women, or children
below the age of puberty.
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