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The Solidarity of Islam 45
which is sacred to the memory
of the
Apostle.
The fact that Islam is broken up
into as
many sects as is Christianity, does not
affect this solidarity so greatly as might be
supposed from the experience of Christianity
in face of the Unbeliever the Faith-
;
ful stand a solid army, the separations
touch none of these symbols of unity.
solid army confronts the world. It has
been asserted by one who knew Islam well,
that the conversion to another Faith of an
insignificant Muslim in an obscure village
is known and mourned (or resented)
over
the whole Muslim world. However that
may be, the solidarity of Islam is a grave
and a suggestive
fact ;
and the Faith which
hopes one day to win it, would do well to
oppose the statesmanship
with a statesmanship and a wisdom equal
with his.
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of Muhammad