"Then think of the spectacle of a conquering Mohammedan army in Cairo!
If the Citadel and the Arsenal of the capital could be occupied by that
horde outside, it would not be merely England's power in Egypt that
would be ended, or the English Empire as a world force that would be
injured--it would be Western civilisation itself that would in the end
be destroyed. The Mohammedans in India would think that what their
brethren in Cairo had done they might do. The result would be
incalculable chaos, unlimited anarchy, the turning back of the clock ten
centuries."