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Christianity.
I am aware of the certain so-called Tartar families who
embraced the Orthodox Christian Faith in Russia. But I
can assure my readers, on authentic authority, that these
"Tartars" were those Mongols who, long after the subju-
gation of Russia and the establishment of the "Altin Ordu"
by Batu Khan, were either still pagans or newly converted
to Islam and seem to have been forced or induced to join the
Russian Church. And in this connection it should not be
ignored that this happened after the Muslim power of the
"Golden Horde" ("Altin Ordu") tumbled down at the tre-
mendous invasion of Timur Lang (Tamerlane). On the
contrary, Muslim traders and merchants, in China as well as
in the dark continent of Africa, have always propagated their
Holy Religion; and the millions of Chinese and negro Muslims
are the fruit of these unpaid and unofficial Mussulman mis-
I am aware of the certain so-called Tartar families who
embraced the Orthodox Christian Faith in Russia. But I
can assure my readers, on authentic authority, that these
"Tartars" were those Mongols who, long after the subju-
gation of Russia and the establishment of the "Altin Ordu"
by Batu Khan, were either still pagans or newly converted
to Islam and seem to have been forced or induced to join the
Russian Church. And in this connection it should not be
ignored that this happened after the Muslim power of the
"Golden Horde" ("Altin Ordu") tumbled down at the tre-
mendous invasion of Timur Lang (Tamerlane). On the
contrary, Muslim traders and merchants, in China as well as
in the dark continent of Africa, have always propagated their
Holy Religion; and the millions of Chinese and negro Muslims
are the fruit of these unpaid and unofficial Mussulman mis-