The point for the moment is that the episode of the snow did in a superficial way suggest the parts played by the three parties and the tales told about them.
To begin with, it is right to say that the English do a great many things, as they clear away the snow, simply because nobody else would do them.
They did save the oriental inhabitants from some of the worst consequences of the calamity.

Probably they sometimes save the inhabitants from something which the inhabitants do not regard as a calamity.

It is the danger of all such foreign efficiency that it often saves men who do not want to be saved.
But they do in many cases do things from which Moslems profit, but which Moslems by themselves would not propose, let alone perform.
And this has a general significance even in our first survey, for it suggests a truth easy to abuse, but I think impossible to ignore.
I mean that there is something non-political about Moslem morality.
Perverse as it may appear, I suspect that most of their political movements result from their non-political morality.
They become politicians because they know they are not political; and feel their simple and more or less healthy life is at a disadvantage, in face of the political supremacy of the English and the political subtlety of the Jews.
For instance, the tradition of Turkish rule is simply a joke.
All the stories about it are jokes, and often very good jokes.
My own favourite incident is that which is still commemorated in the English cathedral by an enormous hole in the floor.
The Turks dug up the pavement looking for concealed English artillery; because they had been told that the bishop had given his blessing to two canons.

The bishop had indeed recently appointed two canons to the service of the Church, but he had not secreted them under the floor of the chancel.

There was another agreeable incident when the Turkish authorities, by an impulsive movement of religious toleration, sent for a Greek priest to bury Greek soldiers, and told him to take his choice in a heap of corpses of all creeds and colours.
But at once the most curious and the most common touch of comedy is the perpetual social introduction to solid and smiling citizens who have been nearly hanged by the Turks.