Excerpt from Soldiers of the Prophet
For many years before the military expedition under review the attitude of the Druses towards the Turkish Government had been one of non-co-operation and passive resistance. They were convinced that any acknowledgment of Turkish supremacy on their part would lead to the surrender of their independence and liberty, and therefore they stubbornly resisted all the attempts of the Sublime Porte to subjugate them. They declared that, as they were neither Turks nor Muslims, they would have nothing to do with the Bab-al-'Ali or the Khilafat. All along they had persistently refused to pay taxes. The political movement which had convulsed Constantinople in 1908 had not stirred them. They even repudiated the conscription law which the Constitution had decreed should in future be extended to non-Muslims. As for the alluring promises of the Young Turks that henceforth all Ottoman subjects, of whatever creed or clan, should live together as brothers under the same blue sky, all these had left them stone cold.
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