Sanu’a argued Egyptians fighting in Sudan fought against Muslim brothers.

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> (#exemplifies`, via linked claim)

In an article written several months later, Sanüa uses the Mahdï in a satiric attack on Khedive Tawfïq, in which the Sudanese leader stands with, and stands up for, the Egyptians who suffer under Tawfïq's rule. Sanüa drew Tawfïq as puffy and useless-looking, tied to a tree and surrounded by his enemies, who by this time included just about everyone in the world. — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 471 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

Related

• Sanua wielded satire to attack Khedive Tawfiq using the Mahdi as defender of Egyptians. (similarity 0.90)
• Sanua defended Egyptian nationalists joining the Mahdi as faith-based unity against a common enemy. (similarity 0.89)
• Exiled Egyptian nationalists misread the Mahdi as a natural ally (similarity 0.87)
• Sanua embraced the Mahdi’s spiritual mission while al-Afghani did not (similarity 0.86)
• Sanü`a saw Egypt as simultaneously inside three empires including its own Sudan colony (similarity 0.85)
• Egyptian soldiers fought Sudanese kin of shared Islamic faith as cannon fodder for Britain (similarity 0.84)
• Egyptian exiled nationalists recast Sudanese Mahdist resistance as pan-Egyptian heroism, erasing friction (similarity 0.84)
• Sanua portrayed Sudanese Mahdist fighters as voluntary religious martyrs. (similarity 0.83)
• Defeated Egyptian `Urabist exiles publicly sanctioned joining the Sudanese Mahdi’s army (similarity 0.82)
• Sanua saw the Mahdi’s poverty as proof of divine purpose against imperialism. (similarity 0.82)
• Sanua cast the Mahdi’s rise as a divine miracle against superior British arms. (similarity 0.82)
• Shared language and religion did not protect Egyptians from degradation in Mahdist Sudan (similarity 0.81)
• Sanua framed the Mahdi’s humble origins as divine revolutionary miracle, unlike al-Afghani (similarity 0.81)
• Sanü`a’s Mahdï remained cast in the subordinate gatekeeper role of Sudanese servants (similarity 0.81)
• Egyptian nationalists condemned British empire while legitimizing Egyptian empire over Sudan (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Sanua defended Egyptian nationalists joining the Mahdi as faith-based unity against a common enemy. #exemplifies (0.70) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 484
• Shared language and religion did not protect Egyptians from degradation in Mahdist Sudan #exemplifies (0.55)
• Sanua wielded satire to attack Khedive Tawfiq using the Mahdi as defender of Egyptians. #exemplifies (0.50) — Eve M. Troutt Powell, A Different Shade of Colonialism_…, 471