ISLAM

CHAPTER IV
THE CHRISTIAN AND MOSLEM ALPHABETS.
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The Renaissance owes its birth to Islam."
Draper.
Scourging the morals and religion of the Moslem
peoples, Mr. L,evonian attacked the educational
systems of the Moslem countries too in a haphazard
and shameless way. The educational institutions
of a country are the most vital and potent organisations
for the building up of national character of its
peoples. To ascribe the defects of Moslem character
to the evil practices
in the domain of education in
Islam is simply an outrage on the Moslem S5'stem of
education and moral training. Mr. I^evonian has
cited in an ugly manner his own experiences in some
Turkish schools where he too had been a teacher for
some time, where he has tried to prove that the
entire system of education lacks that moral emphasis
which is essential for the development of a virtuous
and progressive national life. L,et us first of all
give below a few extracts from Mr. Levonian's book
in order to explain his own point of view.
He says
:
"Just before the war I knew of a Moslem father
who sent his son to a Government school
where every thing was free. The boy came
home one day and told his father that he had