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ago. British influence in Central Arabia is of a most salutary 

 character, and the one encouraging feature of the Wahabi 

 reform movement is its principal aim to bring Mohammedanism 

 back to the simplicity of the Koran. 



7. Mohammed at the outset of his career regarded Christianity 

 and Judaism as co-ordinate religions. In the 59th verse of the 

 second Sura, we read : " Verily the Moslems, the Jews, the 

 Christians and the Sabeans . . . whosoever belie veth in 

 God and the judgment day, and doeth that which is right, shall 

 have their reward with their Lord, they shall have no cause to 

 fear, neither shall they be grieved." Circumstances and the 

 spirit of the times are forcing the leaders of Islanri back to that 

 standpoint. 



8. When the Emir Feisal entered Damascus he uttered memor- 

 able words as he stood in the Great Mosque : " Henceforth we will 

 make no difference between Moslem Arabs, Christian Arabs and 

 Jewish Arabs, for every man must respect the rights of others." 



9. In a recent interview with Sir H. Samuel in Jerusalem, the 

 Emir Abdullah declared there was no antagonism between the 

 Jewish and the Arab claims in Palestine. 



10. It will be quite impossible for the Zionists to impose 

 religious disabilities upon aspirants to administrative posts in 

 Palestine. The very nature of the situation at Jerusalem and the 

 traditions of British administration will in due time compel all 

 extremists, Jewish, Moslem or Christian, to recognize the just 

 claims of others. 



11. There are more than 60,000 Jews in Mesopotamia, and large 

 numbers of them have been educated in the well-equipped 

 Alliance schools of Baghdad. Many are being employed to-day 

 by the civil administration of Mesopotamia, and for some years 

 before the war one of the two Baghdad deputies in the Turkish 

 Parliament was a Jew. The educated Jews of Mesopotamia 

 are now either Agnostics or nonconforming Jews of the modern 

 Western type. 



12. The resources of Mesopotamia must be developed, and the 

 oil, the cotton and the grain will, of necessity, be brought to 

 the ports of the Mediterranean. {Vide correspondence between 

 the United States and British Governments.) 



13. The Jews of Mesopotamia and Palestine will be found on 

 the trade routes, they will spread in both directions, and they 

 are mostly Arabic-speaking Jews. There are thousands in Aleppo 

 and many in Mosul. 



