The Life of Abdel Kader Ex Sultan of the Arabs of Algeria Written From His Own
The Life of Abdel Kader Ex Sultan of the Arabs of Algeria Written From His Own
Charles Henry Churchill
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" '' Is that a reason for killing them ? This is wicked, unjust, infamous. If the French were to kill my Arabs who are their prisoners, what would you say ?" '' Dogs of Christians. " "Enough; for shame! I will have no more of these doings. Do you understand me? This shall and must be the last. Give the prisoners thirty francs a-piece, place them in my camp, and mind they are well provided for. " From this moment, Abdel Kader determined to procure a national edict as regarded the treatment of pr...isoners; for notwithstanding all his vigilance, isolated instances of bar- barity still continued to occur. He convoked a grand council of all the Khalifas, the Agas, the Kaids, and chiefs of tribes. 216 Life of Abdel Kader, Three hundred assembled. Standing up before them, he took for the text of his oration, an article in the Koran, where Mohammed blames his brother-in-law Ali for having slain five hundred infidels after they had surrendered. Applying this passage to the case of French soldiers taken prisoners, Abdel Kader vehemently insisted that they should no more be wantonly killed or mutilated.
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