📍 Yesterday, the Egyptian soccer player @MoSalah -playing in one of the most prestigious clubs in #UK 🇬🇧 which is @LFC- wrote a tweet in which he expresses his condolences and solidarity with the British people -who is living in the confines of their community- 👇🏼
https://twitter.com/herrneumann1/status/1572339379544391683
with the departure of Queen #Elizabeth II
Most of the comments came from Egyptians in a shameful way, and even reached the point of describing the comments as terrorist, as most of them were excommunicating Salah at times and stripping him of his patriotism at other times 👇🏼
Most of the comments came from Egyptians in a shameful way, and even reached the point of describing the comments as terrorist, as most of them were excommunicating Salah at times and stripping him of his patriotism at other times 👇🏼
out of the bloody history of the British Empire in #Egypt 🇪🇬
I am almost certain if Salah or another Arab player wrote tweets of solidarity with the Kurdish players, for example, who are deprived of their rights in #Turkey 🇹🇷, the commentators would have reacted the same 👇🏼
I am almost certain if Salah or another Arab player wrote tweets of solidarity with the Kurdish players, for example, who are deprived of their rights in #Turkey 🇹🇷, the commentators would have reacted the same 👇🏼
would have forgotten the crimes of the defunct Ottoman Empire in Egypt for example
For example, Hussein Fawzi mentioned in his book Egypt's Sindbad, and Ibn Iyas wrote in his book Badaa’ al-Zuhur about the practices of the Ottomans in Egypt, where they wrote: 👇🏼
For example, Hussein Fawzi mentioned in his book Egypt's Sindbad, and Ibn Iyas wrote in his book Badaa’ al-Zuhur about the practices of the Ottomans in Egypt, where they wrote: 👇🏼
Travelers and historians who visited Egypt, including the Volne book and the Safari letters, mentioned that when the Ottoman Sultan Selim Pasha traveled to Alexandria, he ordered the imprisonment of two thousand men of crafts, industries, judiciary, notables and princes, 👇🏼
to send them by force to Constantinople, homes of the Egyptians were stolen from movable and immovable items so much that they stole wood, tiles and marble, and the Ottoman Sultan Selim's soldiers stole everything until the youngest soldier in his army became 👇🏼
richer than any prince in Egypt
The soldiers of the Ottoman Sultan Selim Pasha tied the Egyptians with ropes around their necks, and then drove them with severe beatings on their backs
He also sent scholars, artists, merchants and writers to Constantinople 👇🏼
The soldiers of the Ottoman Sultan Selim Pasha tied the Egyptians with ropes around their necks, and then drove them with severe beatings on their backs
He also sent scholars, artists, merchants and writers to Constantinople 👇🏼
and left Egypt in darkness
Conclusion There is no empire or kingdom historically that has not practiced crime and oppression, including Arab and Islamic kingdoms and empires alike 👇🏼
Conclusion There is no empire or kingdom historically that has not practiced crime and oppression, including Arab and Islamic kingdoms and empires alike 👇🏼
In the long history of Egypt, Egypt did not witness more unjust and oppressive eras than those three centuries, but rather the four during which the Ottomans ruled!
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