“To revolt on behalf of an ignorant people is self-immolation by fire to light the way to a blind man!"

~Mohamed Rachid Rida, a Syrian Arab.

When the Bolivian military captured Che Guevara using information provided by a Bolivian shepherd, they asked: "Why denounce a man who sacrificed himself for your freedom and well-being?"

The shepherd replied: "Because the crackling of arms scares my animals in pasture".

When Mohamed Karim, the Egyptian who undertook to resist the assault of Alexandria launched by Napoleon, was arrested by the army and sentenced to death Napoleon appealed to him and said:

“I feel troubled to kill a man who has valiantly defended his country. I will not wish history to retain from me the image of a person who stifles the impetus of the patriots to defend the integrity of their homeland....

I thus promise you freedom if you pay ten thousand gold coins as financial compensation to my soldiers that the resistance killed. "

Smiling, Mohamed Karim replied: “I do not have the full amount requested on me, but I am indebted to more than 100 thousand pieces of gold to the merchants of Alexandria. The will pay for sure so that I have my life saved! "

Chained, he was driven to the Alexandria market in search of the money on which his freedom now depended. However, to his great surprise, no merchant was on his side.

Worse still the natives accused him of being a troublemaker, a destroyer of property, and a damager to the economic vitality of the port city of Alexandria.

Seeing the resignation of his family towards him, Napoleon declared: "I will concede that the sentence of capital punishment is executed not because you killed my soldiers, but for having fought for cowardly people who count more about their business than about their integrity.”