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Slavery. The temporary slavery commission reported that slavery is practically wiped out except in the Mohammedan countries of the East. A peonage system of approaching it exiss in parts of Latin America. Abyssinia is the Christian country where it is still practiced, but progress has been made there towards its abolition. Slave raiding is rare except on the borders of the Sahara Desert. In Arabia many girls making pilgrimages from the East are seized and enslaved...
...this "Daddy on the Castle" game, is that last autumn Spain had a little mix-up of the same sort and suspected France of supplying arms to the same rebellious natives. Consequently Spain is not tumbling over her self with eagerness to help her neighbor now that the little Mohammedan muckers have turned their bean blowers in the opposite direction...
...regulation, but they at least allow freedom of choice a man may or may not "fall in" for church parade as he likes; if he does not, he "falls out" for kitchen police or some other disagreeable detail. Apparently only those who declare themselves to be oriental mystics or Mohammedan believers may escape the common...
...must be remembered that this is not the work of a mere law but is the culmination of a struggle started some fifty years ago under the old Ottoman Empire. The whole social order is completely changed." Asked how this new order is reconciled with the Mohammedan religion, M. Moukbil replied that it is provided in the Koran that the religion should change with the times...
...house came Sheik Mustapha el Maraghi, Grand Cadi of Egypt (sort of Chief Justice of the Supreme Mohammedan Court in Egypt), stepped into a waiting carriage...