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uries let one opportunity escape to harm Turkey; that millions of Mohammedans are suffering under the tyrannical rule of the said powers; that therefore the holy war has been declared, upon the issue of which not only the welfare of the Turkish Empire but also the life and future of three hundred million[1] of Mohammedans depend. The mercy of Allah and the support of the Prophet will turn the struggle against the enemies of Islâm, undertaken together with Germany and Austria, into victory.
Constantinople would not be Constantinople if these extravagant utterances of the Committee[2] had not been followed
- ↑ This computation is taken from the speech delivered by the German Emperor in 1898 by the grave of Saladin; the population then appears not to have increased in the last sixteen years.
- ↑ In order to fully appreciate the unctuously-fanatical fetwa and proclamation, one has to bear in mind that the real authors of both documents, Enver, Taläat, et al., are practically free-thinkers.
