He roused himself and spoke, but at first his speech was broken and smothered.
"Day by day I saw Egypt given over to the Christians," he said.

"The Greek, the Italian, the Frenchman, the Englishman, everywhere they reached out, their hands and took from us our own.

They defiled our mosques; they corrupted our life; they ravaged our trade, they stole our customers, they crowded us from the streets where once the faithful lived alone.

Such as thou had the ear of the Prince, and such as Nahoum, also an infidel, who favoured the infidels of Europe.

And now thou hast come, the most dangerous of them all! Day by day the Muslim has loosed his hold on Cairo, and Alexandria, and the cities of Egypt.