Ali threatened mutinous Sudanese troops with brutal religiously-framed execution

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The following year when another mutiny broke out among the same troops who had taken up positions in the Sudan, this time he had no such qualms with “order.” He told them that at a time when their “brethren in faith” had been fighting the Greek rebels in Morea and others were engaged in subduing the Wahhabi rebels in ‘Asīr, they had been disobeying orders to march with their new leader, Moho Bey. He swore by God, the Lord of the Ka’ba, that he would severely punish them by strangling them as dogs and throwing them to their deaths in the desert. — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 919