Note 150 — Chapter XI · THE SPREAD OF ISLAM IN AFRICA.
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It is important, too, to note that neither his colour nor his race in any way prejudice the Negro in the eyes of his new co-religionists. The progress of Islam in Negritia has no doubt been materially advanced by this absence of any feeling of repulsion towards the Negro—indeed Islam seems never to have treated the Negro as an inferior, as has been unhappily too often the case in Christendom.150