In the section “Vorderindien Der Widerhall des Balkankrieges auf dem indischen Missionsfeld” in the paper “Nachrichten aus den Missionen” from 1912, there is an article describing an event in Bombay (Mumbai) of India where a man held a speech criticizing the Serbian and Montenegrin war crimes and religious hypocrisy against Albanians in 1912.
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“This movement against Europe and Christianity naturally had consequences for missionary work. The bitterness increased, particularly when the Balkan states attempted to portray their war of aggression as a new crusade against Islam. These words were used everywhere to mock Christianity, which boasted of being the religion of peace but in reality brought the sword.
For example, at a huge gathering in Bombay on November 8, 1912, a speaker exclaimed to the crowds: “While Serbian regicides and Montenegrin bandits are leading their forces to an ally they fundamentally hate, in order to bring the gospel of peace by the sword, Turkish soldiers must stand guard day and night in Jerusalem, keeping the warring sects apart so they don’t cut each other’s throats.”
A native writer who reported these words in the Times of India lamented in an article that religion had been dragged into the war and sects added. The Christian missionaries in the Muslim countries will likely… The task of proclaiming this gospel by the sword will not be made easier by this.”
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