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25 Jan, 3 tweets, 2 min read
— Oh Arabs, I am the defender of Islam…

— God forbid, oh shaykh, Allah alone is the defender of Islam!!!

Egyptian anti-Mussolini cartoon published in the Al-Musawar newspaper in March 1937, shortly after Mussolini had been given the ‘sword of Islam’.
In 1937 Mussolini had himself declared the Protector of Islam and given a sword - the sword of Islam - by Yusef Kerbisc, a prominent Berber who supported the Italian occupation.
The sword was made in Florence on Mussolini’s orders and was later kept at Mussolini’s summer home of Rocca delle Caminate, a castle that was stormed and plundered by Italian resistance fighters in 1943. The sword has been lost since.

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