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 | | The Arabs, he said, were Semitic warriors harsh from time out of mind; as a consequence, their Islam was militant and violent, forever in jihad. |
 | | Whereas, his Islamic culture, because it was Persian, was inevitably sweet and gentle, delicate as music and love: his Islam was that of Roses, and Bulbuls, the nightingales of the Middle East. |
 | | It was a matter of utterly different races, he said. |
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