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250 Oriental Cairo<br />

I was disappointed with this Ashura procession ; there is<br />

no reality about it in Egypt except the flow of blood ; it is<br />

an exotic of the Persian colony. What lends such dignity<br />

to the processions of the Holy Carpet and the Molid-en-<br />

Nebbi is that they are expressions of the national religion.<br />

All the millions of Sunnite Mohammedans in Egypt breathe<br />

fervour into them. In Persia the Ashura is the most<br />

important of religious ceremonies, because the fervour in<br />

the Shiite millions of Persia is behind it. The Shahs and<br />

the Mollas have always done all they could to foster the<br />

national excitement over it to prevent Persia falling under<br />

the influence of Sunnite Constantinople.

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