The Mohammedan religion is a compound of Jewish monotheism, heathen sensuality, and apocryphal pseudo-Christianity, pervaded by devotion to Mohammed, the poet and prophet of Arabia. It may be called a bastard Judaism, as the Arabs are Ishmaelites, or children of the bastard son of Abraham.

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