Exiled Egyptian nationalists misread the Mahdi as a natural ally

Evidence

Observe that I don’t blame at all those among you, former soldiers and officers of Arabï, who have joined the Mahdï, to fight the common en- emy in the ranks of his army. If you are not of the same country, then you are of the same faith. Patriotism has its despairs, and the English have the bad grace to reproach you for it, they who, in Spain, united with the fanatics of the Inquisition in order to defeat the Napoleonic invasion. — <cite>Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 484</cite> (#responds-to`, via linked claim)

I throw this rock at you, O enemy to the faith, first of all because of what you did to the poor fallah, and the Egyptian soldier, and the alïm, learned in the Qur´an, and second because you handed over the trea- sures of your country to the greed of the British, then you made their priests rulers of Islam. Third, for your sitting on the khedivial throne, which is itself a contradiction of the Islamic sharia. You did not rightly inherit the throne. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 473 (#responds-to, via linked claim)

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

Related

• Sanua defended Egyptian nationalists joining the Mahdi as faith-based unity against a common enemy. (similarity 0.89)
• Sanua embraced the Mahdi’s spiritual mission while al-Afghani did not (similarity 0.88)
• Sanu’a argued Egyptians fighting in Sudan fought against Muslim brothers. (similarity 0.87)
• Defeated Egyptian `Urabist exiles publicly sanctioned joining the Sudanese Mahdi’s army (similarity 0.85)
• Sanua wielded satire to attack Khedive Tawfiq using the Mahdi as defender of Egyptians. (similarity 0.84)
• Egyptian army officers joined the Mahdist cause mainly from resentment at the khedive’s betrayal (similarity 0.81)
• Exiled nationalists read the Mahdi’s revolt as political strategy, not religion (similarity 0.81)
• Sanua framed the Mahdi’s humble origins as divine revolutionary miracle, unlike al-Afghani (similarity 0.81)
• Egyptian exiled nationalists recast Sudanese Mahdist resistance as pan-Egyptian heroism, erasing friction (similarity 0.81)
• Egyptian soldiers joined the Mahdï after the `Uräbï rebellion’s defeat (similarity 0.80)
• Exiled Egyptian nationalists recast Sudanese agency as service to Egypt (similarity 0.79)
• Egyptian nationalists claimed Sudan for Egypt yet felt it alien and unhomelike. (similarity 0.79)
• Defeated Egyptian nationalist officers organized the Mahdist bands out of resentment (similarity 0.79)
• Sanua saw the Mahdi’s poverty as proof of divine purpose against imperialism. (similarity 0.79)
• Egyptian conscripts saw their own officers as the enemy rather than the Ottomans (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Egyptian nationalists ventriloquized fake Sudanese voices instead of seeking real Sudanese allies #expands (0.70)
• Sanua defended Egyptian nationalists joining the Mahdi as faith-based unity against a common enemy. #responds-to (0.70) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 484
• Sanua’s Mahdi figures legitimized Egyptian opposition to the Khedive on religious grounds. #responds-to (0.60) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 473
• Sanua wielded satire to attack Khedive Tawfiq using the Mahdi as defender of Egyptians. #responds-to (0.60) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 471
• Egyptian Urabist officers joined the Mahdi out of resentment against the khedive #qualifies (0.50) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 487