Excerpt from Islam: A Prelection Delivered Before the University of Dublin, March 10, 1903

I have been asked to tell you, as well as I can within the compass of an hour, what Mohammadanism - or, to give it its right name, Islam - really is: assuming (I dare say very gratuitously) that you have made no study of it. But I shall take leave to tell you first of all what it is not. It is not heathenism. Nothing can be more absurd or misleading than the popular way of confounding all creeds that are not Christian under the opprobrious name of 'heathen.' It reminds me of a sergeant-major of the British Army of Occupation in Egypt whom 1 used to hear in Cairo on Sunday mornings at church parade giving the word of command in something like these terms: 'Church of England one pace to the front; Roman Catholics stand fast; miscellaneous religions one pace to the rear.'

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