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Title: Our Moslem Sisters
A Cry of Need from Lands of Darkness Interpreted by Those Who Heard It

Author: Annie Van Sommer
Samuel Marinus Zwemer

Release Date: October 5, 2009 [EBook #30178]

Language: English

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OUR MOSLEM SISTERS

[Illustration: A MOTHER AND HER DAUGHTER FROM TUNIS]

Our Moslem Sisters

_A Cry of Need from Lands of Darkness
Interpreted by Those Who Heard It_

EDITED BY
ANNIE VAN SOMMER
AND
SAMUEL M. ZWEMER

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INTRODUCTION

This book with its sad, reiterated story of wrong and oppression is an
indictment and an appeal. It is an indictment of the system which
produces results so pitiful. It is an appeal to Christian womanhood to
right these wrongs and enlighten this darkness by sacrifice and service.
At the recent Mohammedan Educational Conference in Bombay the president
of the gathering, the Agha Khan, himself a leading Moslem, spoke very
trenchantly of the chief barriers to progress in the Moslem world. The
first and greatest of these barriers in his opinion was "the seclusion
of women which results in keeping half the community in ignorance and
degradation and this hinders the progress of the whole." Surely the
ignorance and degradation of one-half of a community which has a world
population of 233 millions is a question that concerns all who love
humanity.

The origin of the veil of Islam was, a