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They demand these abominations. If I wanted more evidence, I would have provided a lot of it, but what we have mentioned serves the purpose. Once the foregoing is clear, I will proceed to describe the Egyptian national movement. I will do so to the best of my ability and also propose my own opinion on how it should be dealt with. I say: If we say that the internal Egyptian national movement is not a movement towards Islamic unity, our statement would not be entirely accurate. However, there is no doubt that this movement has a strong Islamic unity character. And the matter was known to me for a long time. Many Europeans have now become aware of this, as appears in the local newspapers. But their awareness of it has been slow. It is easy for me to provide many examples and evidence to support this claim if necessary. However, I will now say that the events that occurred last summer have revealed a new element of the Egyptian situation. Because, even if one accepts what is undoubtedly true, which is that religion is the greatest driving force in the East, and that the Orientals do not match the cunning of the "Newgraphy" movement, it would still be reasonable to expect that the Egyptians, considering what befell them in the past, and their consideration of their country's long history of wealth and prosperity, would have made great progress compared to the surrounding states, and would lean towards Islamic unity in their country more than is apparent in the outward signs. I say "in the outward signs" because, apart from all outward signs, I am still not convinced that the inclination towards Islamic unity is deeply rooted in the Egyptian social fabric. Indeed, I am confident that if the Egyptians believed it was possible to translate the ideas of that unity from theory into practice, public opinion would undergo a great and rapid reversal against it. (1) I refer here to a book that came to me in four parts from Lamfaza, and I mentioned in a paper that I was presented with two manuscripts. I have seen them in the country of Lakinia. He dictated them to me. I found these people and their misfortunes in the country of Lakinia, and sent them to London, not as a comparison, but as an example. And I have had them for a long time, and I no longer have them, but they are mentioned in more eloquent terms than usual. (2) By the East, I mean the Eastern lands, in terms of knowledge, not in terms of their essence, or in terms of (3) The "Newgraphy" government refers to the government that was built. As for the current situation, the original government in it is (Translator)

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