Adventure, November 1915 — page 223: what you’re looking at

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- ee oe ‘The Camp-Fire amounts to little; some that it is the most powerful force in all Islam. From an encyclopedia I get: SENUSSI, Mohammed Ibn Ali es-Senussi. A North-African Moslem, who, under the influence of Wahabism, founded at Mecca in 1837 a brother- hood for the purification and propagation of Islam. The founder died in 1859, and his son.established a Churéh-State at Jerabub, in the Sahara, between Egypt and Tripoli. He gave himself out as the Mahdi, and undertook by the collection of arms, to prepare for a jihad or holy war. The Brotherhood of es-Senussi is a puritanic order of the dervish type, secret in its organiza- tion. Tt has some 120 centers in North Africa and Arabia, including a strong one at Mecca, where many pilgrims from all parts of the world are initiated. —The Senussi movement has resulted in the rapid spread of Mohammedanism among the Sudanese tribes, and has not failed to take on a political aspect. The Standard Dictionary says it was founded in 1842, that its founder was an Algerian, and that it is an influential Mo- hammedan religious brotherhood distin- guished for its austerity and fanaticism. EORGE E. HOLT, who was with the United States consular service in Mo- rocco for a number of years and gathered an unusual lot of inside information con- cerning that country and its peoples, once told me some very interesting things con- cerning the Senussi or Senussiyeh. He knows of his own knowledge that they levy regular taxes in at least Morocco, and he says their secret headquarters is the oasis of Jof, which, as I remember, is somewhere along the western edges of the Libyan Des- ert, south of Tripoli. I understand that no white man has set foot in Jof, but Mr. Holt had it by reliable report that a small standing army is main- tained there and that great wealth, in money, stores and ammunition, is being stored against ‘‘the day.” There are rumors of factories for the manufacture of arms, ammunition and other war supplies, with men technically trained in Europe. Rumors, too, of a spy system that covers most of the ‘world, and centers at Jof. M&: HOLT told me, also, that when we read of a Holy War proclaimed by the Sultan of Turkey or the Sheik ul Islarh we are reading nonsense, for only the head of the Senussi can start a Holy War. When 221 one 7s proclaimed every Mohammedan, no matter where he is—Africa, Asia, Europe, New York, Chicago—will at once become gurameniado. That is, he will start right in killing whatever Christians are handiest, until he himself is killed. HAT is the whole truth? What part has this secret order played in the present war? What part may it play later? What is its ultimate object? Does it aim at the destruction of the Christian world? What, if any, authority does it exercise over the Sultan of Turkey and the Sheik ul Islam? How extensive and how powerful is it? How great a store of wealth has it laid away? What does it all mean? Is it a serious menace hanging over us, an almost un- imaginable horror yet to come? Are the Senussi waiting until Europe is weakened and crippled by the present war? Among you there are some who can throw light upon the above. Let’s hear from you. It may be that the matter is more important than the Christian world realizes. INFORMATION DIRECTORY IMPORTANT: Only items like those below can be ‘printed—standing sources of information. No room on this page to ask or answer specific questions. Recommend no source of information you are not sure of. False informa. . tion may cause serious loss, even loss of life. Adventure does its best to make this ry reliable, but assumes no re- sponsibility therefor. 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