tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8003335.post4610310698736926746..comments2024-03-23T00:46:27.084+02:00Comments on Egyptian Chronicles: Presidential elections 2012 : The Circus goes onZeinobiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12290387395565291310noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8003335.post-7364940593474194322012-03-12T18:25:47.676+02:002012-03-12T18:25:47.676+02:00Just a proviso on the part about Sudan.
Muhammad ...Just a proviso on the part about Sudan.<br /><br />Muhammad Ali Pasha brutally invaded and occupied the Sudanese Kingdoms in 1820 and brought all their domains under his control until the glorious Mahdist Revolution in 1881 which liberated the Sudanese and established Africa's first indigenous free State until 1898 when the 'British' decided to reconquer Sudan and subjugate the Mahdist State as it was setting a bad example to colonised peoples in Africa and elsewhere.<br /><br />In the words of the late, great Imam as-seyyid AbdelRahman Al-Mahdi, the British soldier came into Sudan in a carriage drawn by Egyptians...<br /><br />The British effectively reconquered Sudan in battles led by Kitchener and in which Winston Churchill participated and due to their leadership the British effectively administered Sudan as a British Imperial possession, in spite of the official titles of 'Anglo-Egyptian' rule and the 'Condominium'.<br /><br />It was Hussein Kamel and Fuad the 1st who insisted on being recognised as Sultans of 'Egypt' (obviously) 'and Sudan'...<br /><br />But this had nothing to back it on the ground...<br /><br />And then after 1936 Farouk named himself King of Egypt (obviously) 'and Sudan', although there was nothing to back his claim on the ground in Sudan, and the British never recognised those titles.<br /><br />So my Egyptian friends, we Sudanese are loath to be referred to as having been part of a fictional Egyptian Kingdom...<br /><br />Egyptian dominium over Sudan ended at the victory of the glorious Mahdist Revolution. <br /><br />I know that you are indoctrinated with a different set of facts, but the land and people these facts concern refute all that you have learned in this regard.<br /><br />Any 'educated' Egyptian who refers to a Kingdom uniting Egypt and Sudan is laughable to us Sudanese and is as absurd as a Russian who states that Alaska is Russian.Sudanese Mahdistnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8003335.post-33790491720822839392012-03-12T10:44:58.962+02:002012-03-12T10:44:58.962+02:00I love this! And what you're writing about the...I love this! And what you're writing about the Virginity Tests and protests against the verdict too. And to think I have to leave Egypt now, just when things are getting REALLY interesting again!!! I will keep reading your blog while I'm away. Thank you!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com