The Egyptian revolution is having a crisis, as it was a revolution against a corrupted regime, but it never touched the corrupted minds. Consequently, the Egyptians kept their corrupted minds. All problems of the revolution were basically a reflection for the problems of the Egyptian mind, and not of the revolution.
Egyptian society suffers from a double problem: corruption in the society and the corrupted minds as well. I mean by the corruption of society: the political, economic and social corruption, which is the corruption of regime. The corruption of citizens’ minds has generated a lot of taboos and dogmas. The revolution itself has become a dogma that shouldn’t be a subject for a debate or criticism! Adding to that, the control of religious authorities in the minds of the Egyptians, believing in superstitions and thinking about the glories of the past.
In January 25 Egyptians revolt against the community, but they didn’t do the same against the corrupted minds, thus the community couldn’t be reformed, and the corruption of minds may annihilate the revolution.
A revolution may overthrow a tyrant easily, but it is too hard for it to change a way of thinking.
If we try to find out the reason behind the Egyptian revolution’s crisis we’ll find:
• The Supreme Council of Armed Forces has accepted to take over managing the country according to the order of Mubarak, and making them the new pharaohs.
• The revolution against the prime minister and accepting Essam Sharaf, at the same time al-Beshry was cooking the constitutional declaration.
• The referendum on the constitutional declaration and using religion to make the electors accept them which is a reflection for the problems of our mind.
• The sit-ins of the Israeli embassy, Maspero and Mohammed Mahmoud, etc. All of it was a reflection for the crisis of the Egyptian mind.
• Voting for the Islamists in the parliament for they will apply the law of Allah is another clear manifestation for this minds’ crisis.
• Abbasya sit-in which is based on a lie of a person is a clear declaration for this crisis
I just want to say that the corrupted mind is capable of either destroying the revolution or reforming the society and consequently, changing minds is a necessity to any reform or a revolution.
It could take years to change minds, but it’s a necessity, and without it no revolution will be able to reform the Egyptian society. We need good education and freedom
