If Bonaparte spoke as a Mussulman, it was merely in his character of a military and political chief in a Mussulman country.
To do so was essential to his success, to the safety of his army, and, consequently; to his glory.

In every country he would have drawn up proclamations and delivered addresses on the same principle.

In India he would have been for Ali, at Thibet for the Dalai-lama, and in China for Confucius.
-- [On the subject of his alleged conversion to Mahometanism Bonaparte expressed himself at St.Helena as follows: "I never followed any of the tenets of that religion.

I never prayed in the mosques.

I never abstained from wine, or was circumcised, neither did I ever profess it.