American official in 1921 and translated into Ottoman
Turkish. TNT has transcribed/translated it back to
English.
The author is a scathing critic of the British and their
policies vis-a-vis their Moslem subjects and details the
sins of the English that are so well known today but
which were effectively unknown or ignored in 1921.
Perhaps this American's distaste for British policy was
the consequence of a then still somewhat innocent and
benificent American foreign policy. Over time, though,
America would come to essentially adopt these same
British policies and tactics to fuel its worldwide
expansion, in league with the United Kingdom, which
became the U.S.'s "sidekick" as time went on.
This first part deals with British involvement in Egypt
and Sudan. Subsequent parts will focus on Arabia,
Istanbul (under British occupation in 1921) and India.//
another critical American click here for another TNT
report in this vein.
British in Egypt click here for part 1 of a 2-part TNT
series on Lord Comer in Egypt in the 1880's.
British in Egypt (part 2) click here for the remainder.
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Islam and the English
Author: A member of the General Staff of the United States
Government
Translated from English
931 (1915)
Halep Takaddüm Printers
The Beliefs
of the English
Mr. Charles
Benetton, a correspondent for the ... newspaper in
Paris, France, once said
that English leaders and thinkers have
left a legacy for the English
nation. For example, Gladstone
advised
that “someone else’s property should be taken and
registered under an English
name.” And that “to be the lord
of the people, sew discord among them.” So the
English take
this advice as if it came from the Bible and act accordingly!
The aims and
ideas that the English have about Islam can be
summed up with these short
sentences. Anyone who has read
world
history or traveled to places like Egypt, India and
Australia where the English
rule has sensed this truth!
Whenever the
English want to separate a place or a people
from the government and take possession,
the first thing they
do is sew discord among the inhabitants and tempt the
ignorants with promises of independence and wealth and then
succeed with false
vows and bribes! There has never been a
time in history when a group or nation that was separated from
its government
by English deception and brought under
English sovereignty has been successful
in achieving their
dreams and aspirations!
The English
in Egypt and Sudan
The English
have been ruling Egypt for 40 years thanks to the
pretext of giving promises
about independence and increasing
wealth during the Arabi Paşa incident. At that time, the
English duped some Egyptian
officials and used some ignorant
people to get what they wanted for the English
nation. The
English then occupied Egypt
and fortified their positions.
They
began to rob the Egyptian populace of its wealth and, in
fact, started to
interfere in family and religious matters.
When
the people of Egypt saw this they began to nurture a hatred and
enmity toward the English and those who had enabled the
English to enter
Egypt.
During the
two trips that I made to Egypt I spoke with many
Egyptians in Cairo,
Alexandria, Zagazig, Tanta, ?Denhur?,
Benha Kıyum. (I went from Aswan to Khartoum and from
Sevakin to the sources of the Blue Nile.)
I read the statistics
and listened to people. As a result, I, like everyone else, came
to
understand that English rule and administration in Egypt
and Sudan is much more
tyrannical that I had thought.
Four Million in Gold
Stolen in One Year
Twenty years
ago, through the intrigues of some English
statesmen, a company made up of 4 or
5 Englishmen came
from London to Egypt
and opened a bank in Cairo’s Opera
Square. The bank indicated that it had 4 million in
gold as
capital and showed many well-known stores, buildings and
shops in
London among its holdings. In this way, the bank
sold one-year promissory notes worth
4 million liras to the
public and farmers.
However, at the end of the notes’ term
the bank was found to be
closed.
The
note-holders went to other banks, wanting to sell their
notes, but the other
banks claimed to be officially unaware of
the bank in question and so they
could not accept the notes.
The
note-holders appealed to the English government and an
English judge promised
to find the culprits and punish them,
along with having the note-holders’
rights upheld.
Nevertheless, the matter
remains unresolved to this day. So
one
can understand how English slight-of-hand can
manufacture such a major fraud.
A Policy of Spreading
Amusement and Drinking
In order to
keep the Egyptian people from getting involved in
politics and administrative
matters and to keep them distant
from such things, the English had the Chief of
Security Henter
Paşa increase the number of drinking and pleasure clubs in
Cairo, Alexandria and other places. In
fact, they filled the
areas around sacred Moslem places like the Seydülhüsseyin
and Side Zinep mosques and Cairo neighborhoods like
Abbasiye, Nasiriye and Şire
with houses of prostitution and
drinking clubs.
Anyone who doubts this can visit these places
and see with their own
eyes.
Hashish and opium increased and
Henter Paşa just about gave
official permission to the populace to use them, in
the name
of freedom. According to information in the Almaktutuf
magazine, in a 3-year period 1,500 youths in
Cairo, Alexandria
and Tanta alone died of alcohol and opium abuse. Sir Eldon
Gorst, who succeeded Lord Cromer,
implemented a light
penalty for the import of opium, to the extent that he
could,
as the result of inistance by the press.
Loss of Five Million
Liras-worth of Cotton in One
Year
During the
time that Lord Cromer administered Egypt and
Sudan, large organizations like
Hizbülvatan formed and
created a groundswell for independence and for the
departure
of the English. In response,
Lord Cromer waged an economic
war on the populace and implemented ways to make
the people
even more helpless and poor.
For example, large cotton factory
directors in England colluded to have
their cotton imported
from Australia, rather than from Egypt. (Of course, Britain’s
representative in
Egypt, Lord Cromer, was aware of this.)
Consequently, at the beginning of the cotton season, when the
factory
directors did not present requests for Egyptian cotton
the value of Egypt’s
cotton plunged drastically. So that
year,
Egyptian agriculture and its people lost 5 million liras. (An
Italian citizen named Mr. Jazrulu working
in the Agriculture
Ministry, compiled statistics showing that in that year a
majority of farmers pawned a third of their fields to the
English government
bank.)! As of that year, Egyptian fields
began to be registered so Gladstone’s first recommendation,
as mentioned earlier in this pamphlet, had been successfully
implemented in Egypt by Lord
Cromer!
Marginal
note: With regard to this anecdote, either the writer
or the translator missed
something. Because when this
incident happened
in 1907 and the Egyptians lost 5 million
liras because of this financial crisis
generated by Lord
Cromer’s pronouncements and slanders, which, by the way,
earned him the hatred of the Egyptians, it
wasn’t just the 5
million liras that were lost. The crisis cost the Egyptians
hundreds of
millions and many Egyptian merchants and
farmers went bankrupt because of it.
The Current
Situation in Egypt and Sudan
Over the
course of time, the people of Egypt came to
understand the English aims and
ambitions in their country.
The 40-year
English occupation resulted in the denial of
independence, the increase in
poverty and loss, the absolute
absence of gold and the population’s reliance on
paper money.
In addition, illnesses
increased because of the prevalence of
alcohol and opium abuse. The number of schools was
diminished because
of budget problems in the Ministry of
Education. And as the tyranny and oppression swelled,
Moslem clergy in Egypt were sidelined as the government
interfered in family
matters, with a number of Moslems being
converted to Christianity. The resulting hatred and enmity
prompted by
this oppression sparked the formation of many
secret and open groups in Egypt that
used propaganda and
newspapers to incite the populace toward rebellion and
independence. Every effort was made to
rid Egypt of the
English, for the people of Egypt and Sudan came to realize
that as long as the English remain in their countries they will
never achieve
independence.
For this reason, at the
end of the Great War two years ago the
Egyptians rose as one in revolt. Eleven million Moslems and
one million
Coptics sacrificed their lives and property together.
They spared no effort to expel the English
from their countries
and gain freedom for the world of Islam from English and
Western servitude and imprisonment!
Based on the
premise of “East for the easterners and West for
the westerners”, up until
today, and as of the date of the
publication of this pamphlet, significant bloody uprisings and
revolts are
percolating and boiling up throughout Egypt.
//Ed. Note: Of course, it wouldn't be until 1956 when Egypt
gained independence from Great Britain.//
//END of PART I//
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