Denshawi : refers to the Dinshawäy Incident: a clash between villagers & Limey rakes on a pigeon-shooting spree at Dinshawäy, Egypt, in 1906. The reprehensible judicial sentences on the justified reaction of the natives served to unite peasants & middle class against the Brits.
... England with a nationalist movement, not only stronger and more instructed than that of Arabi Pasha but led by the rightful sovereign of the country. The exhibition of cold-blooded British ferocity at Denshawi has defeated its object, and, instead of appalling the Egyptians into submission, made them more determined and united. It is now only a question of time for this awakening to affect the rest of Islam ...
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