"Sir ---- ---- has accepted the tissue of untruths forwarded by three
persons, the chief money-lenders of Damascus, because they are his co-
religionists. He asserts that I am a bigoted Roman Catholic, and must
have influenced my husband against them. I am not so bigoted as Sir
---- ----; for if three Catholics were to do one-half of what these three
Jews have done, I would never rest until I had brought them to justice.
I have not a prejudice in the world except against hypocrisy. Perhaps,
as Damascus is divided into thirty-two religions, my husband and I are
well suited to the place. We never ask anybody's religion, nor make
religion our business. My husband would be quite unfitted for public
life if he were to allow me to influence him in the manner described,
and I should be unworthy to be any good man's wife if I were to attempt
it. My religion is God's poor. There is no religious war between us
and the Jews, but there is a refusal to use the name of England to aid
three rich and influential Jews in acts of injustice to, and persecution
of, the poor; to imprison and let them die in gaol in order to extort
what they have not power to give; and to prevent foreign and fraudulent
money transactions being carried on in the name of Her Majesty's
Government. Also it has been necessary once or twice to prevent
the Jews exciting the Moslems to slaughter, by which they have never
suffered, but by which they gratify their hatred of the Christians, who
are the victims.
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