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...Mahammad Djemal Bey, Albanian, medical student, studying in Berlin, stabbed his former fiancee in the arm because she had jilted him. For that he was arrested. At his trial he said: "The law of my country says that disgrace can be atoned for only by a drop of blood. It is not right to humiliate me by ignoring me. I had the right to take her blood in retaliation for the wrong she had done...
...Califate, which came into existence in 632 A. D. on the death of Mahammad, is the highest office of the Moslem religion. To some extent, although it cannot be compared to it, the Califate occupied the same position as the Vatican: The Calif (meaning successor, with to the Prophet understood) was the pontiff of Mahammadanism...
...which the Nationalist Turks surrounded the Califate. It was by no means certain that any of the other Moslem countries would recognize King Hussein as the head of Islam. He is, however, more fitted to the Califate than most other candidates, because the blood of Koreish, tribe to which Mahammad belonged, runs through his veins; this, according to the Sunni Moslems is an indispensable condition to be fulfilled by a Calif. Then, again, the holy cities of Mecca and Medina (the former associated with Mahammad's birth, the latter with his death) are both within the territory of Hedjaz...
After deposing Sultan Mahammad VI in 1922, the Angora Government elected Abdul Medjid Effendi to the Califate. Now it has deposed him. The meaning of this sudden change of countenance was said to be that the Calif proved himself not pliable enough to the Government; he, therefore...
...Mahammad Ali, Indian leader, said last week that the Califate is the essence of Islam and will not be abandoned by Indians...
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