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T Monthly.Organ of Indian Independence.
,,Therefore, 0 Ananda, be ye lamps unto yourselves.
Be ye guides unto yourselves. Betake yourselves to no 2
external refuge. Work out your liberation with diligence.
(Gautama Buddha).
Vol. V.
GENEVA, October 1913.
No. 2.
‘ All communications should be addressed to
Madame CAMA, 25, Rue de Ponthieu, Champs Elysees, Paris (France).
This journal is supported by
voluntary contributions. There is no fixed subscription.
v
H Agreat misfortune has befallen to.this country, and
3; ' its unhappy people, in the death ‘Of Dr. MAHAMUD LABIB
. MOUHARAM BEY, on 4th. September at Berlin, where he
had been-settled down, and had started an Ottoman
I I 3 I" ‘club, for Musalman solidarity and progress. -
' ‘ I ‘At a very young age he felt for the humiliation of his
country; and worked up his ideals of National Unity
and’ lndependance by organisingwith great Zeal and
sincerety The Egyptian National Party; with Mr. FERID
BEY and the late lamented Kamil Pasha.
.3 . The Glorious past of Egypt, and its present downfall
m haunted him always; and he took it so much to his
a , heart, that-at last it cost him his precious young life.
' 3 However a noble and genuine marilike him can never
‘ ’ die, and the‘ theory of evolution is proved true very
quickly in his‘ case, in the birth of a strong National
‘ Egyptian paper “The Alkasas” as a, memorial to him
r ‘ by his colleagues and friends! Let us all wish it a long
successful career.
BHIKHAIJI RUSTOM CAMA.
Afword to the Egyptians.
E (VVritten especially for Alkasas, the Egyptian
nationalist organ). ,
it if ever the wells’ of truth have been poisoned in any country
until every one has drunk the fatal draught and died a vulgar
death, it has been done in Egypt both by the people of that land
and by those‘ who are responsible for the government of that
unhappy country. The people have deceived themselves and fried
to deceive others as regards their true state in the concert of
4;. nations, and those responsible for the government of the country
have sedulously disseminated and nurtured that belief among the
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‘at
T EGYPT’S Loss. ‘
illiterate masses, as well as amongthose who have any pretension
to any knowledge of their own country. The people have deceived , , V.
themselves into the belief that they are the members of.a nation .; xi
capable of holding her own against any nation on the face of the
globe, and those responsible for the government of the country
have carefully fostered this belief, because this has helped them to
undermine the solid foundations of the country. It is a notorious
fact that flattery sinks to the bottom of vanity, and vanity has the
invariable result of leadingindividuals and nations to their downfall.
Egypt is the case in point. Every Egyptian l have met has taken
the utmost pains to assure me of the most incredible of fairy stories
about the marvellous capabilities of the Egyptian Moslems, and
has even gone to the extent of undertaking to prove his contention
to the wilt, unfortunately with the usual result - humiliating both
to the contestants and the biassed.
But our object in this article -is to assert all we know to be
the real truth about Egypt with the utmost candidness. Let it,
however. be made clear to the readers that our sole object in
undertaking to execute this task is no more or less than to allow
ourselves to be betrayed into an age-worn weakness - that of
being frank with those whom we love; for frankness is the sine
qua non of sympathy, and without sympathy love is meaningless.
With this brief preface let us set about to examine the real position
of Egypt. '
An excursion into the misty regions of the past well rewards
the effort provided the object of the excursionist is either relaxation
of his jaded nerves, or a comparative study of successive historical
periods. But since our object is neither one nor the other as we
are concerned with the present of Egypt only; we will start in the
broad daylight of the present instead of rambling over the hazy
domain of other times than ours - Egypt, as she is to-day, falls
by a deepl regretable coincidence under the second division of
countries. here are free subject countries. Egypt is an object
country e her nominal suzeraintv to Turkey, and her individual
ambitions notwithstanding! An English colony Egypt is not but
an English dependency, as she decidedly is by all canons of law,
morality and might, Chafe as they may under the alien yoke,
the Egyptians cannot deny that they are mere vassels of the will
of the foreigner. The word - a gesture of the representative
of England is sufficient to compel even the head of the state to
publish his contrite apologies to the world! The army of occup-
ation e that harmless, innocent band of hardy soldiers imported
from England, and fed on Egyptian fat commands respect of the
native; because limited as their number is, they have an unlimited
number of guns behind them and a whole fleet of dreadnaughts
to bombard, storm and devastate the whole of the Nilotic land.