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Show The most intelligent writers upon the subject agree that there is danger that the present war in Egypt may become a wide-spread struggle between the followers of Mahomet on the one hand, and the neighboring Christian nations on the other. "Egypt for the Egyptians" is now the war cry of Arabi and his followers, but should it be changed to some call calculated to awaken the fanaticism of Mohammedans, there is no telling where the limits of the struggle would extend, as the believers in that religion constitute a large proportion of the human race. |