استاذنا شوقي بدري يلقم هانئ رسلان حجراً في فمه..مقال جدير بالقراءة

Quote: Unfortunately for 'All Pasha, Cromer did not agree with this line of rea¬soning, and ordered the Slave Trade Bureau to be doubly vigilant for illicitly purchased slaves. One can only imagine the expression on Cromer's face when he learned from Schaefer Bey head of the bureau, that an informant had alerted his office to Shaghlub's activities in Kerdessa and that the bureau had traced all six slave women, two of whom had been discovered in the spacious Cairo villa of none other than 'Ali Pasha himself. Three of the four purchasers were immediately arrested and jailed along with the Bedouin traders, and their trial was set for early September, to be conducted in a military tribunal and presided over by a British magistrate. 'All Pasha, however, escaped arrest by claiming Italian citizenship and seeking asylum in the Italian consulate. The trial began on 4 September 1894 in a hail of publicity. The popular Egyptian nationalist and writer Mustafa Kamil quickly condemned the pro¬ceedings, and a diverse array of Egyptian newspapers sent correspondents to the courtroom and published daily accounts of the trial. The Times and the Manchester Guardian also sent reporters, as did Italian and French newspa¬pers. The trial of the pashas, or bashawat, as it became known, was a scan¬dal of international proportions. On one side were the defenders of the elite slave buyers, their lawyers, and other nationalists who believed that the case was meant to punish 'Aliه Pasha Sharif for his petition and that there was no crime in buying Sudanese slaves. These nationalist writers insisted that purchasers of Sudanese slaves were actually conduits of a civilizing mission that taught uneducated and unkempt Sudanese girls the finer arts of domestic life and brought to them a sense of Islam not to be found in the Sudan itself. On another side were British officials and abolitionists, who saw in the purchase of the slave women another example of the barbarity and despotism that kept Egyptians from being able to govern themselves, which justified the British presence in Egypt.

(عدل بواسطة abubakr on 09-14-2009, 10:21 AM)