With all the turmoil and suffering around us, we have always had strong hearts with hopeful spirits. The general consensus has been “Egypt will get better” “Give the Country time to rebuild” I believe that there has been a shift in this ideology, because honestly speaking there is a limit for everyone, and for every circumstance, and when that limit is reached, an ideology based on apathetic, indifferent attitudes is formed. I can’t speak for all of Egypt, but I can speak for myself when I say I have grown cold to the idea of positive thinking. It is so tiring to always remain hopeful in terrible situations. Or when tragedy strikes, to think “That’s ok, we are taking steps to fix the issue” We are always acting in a response to something bad happening. We then proceed to tell ourselves that we should remain strong and to believe in our country, our parliament, our people.
In December 3, 2012, the Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Turkey in a historic visit as described by Russian media. There is no doubt that the two countries were at odd for centuries before the two empires lost their power in 1917 and in 1923. Yet, the conflict continued in the Second World War. Then, Turkey joined NATO after years of its inception in 1948. Turkey supported the camp of the west in the battle of the Cold War. However, with the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 and the disintegration of the Soviet Union in December 1991, the two countries signed on May 25, 1992 a treaty that determined the principles of their relations and the mutual respect.
The government has recently created a body to ensure quality of Education. However, such quality has nothing to do with the free university education. At the same time several disasters and accidents happened in Egypt include traffic and means of transportation, I found a book in my library that was issued in 1929 by the Ministry of Public Knowledge as part of the curricula 75 years ago. The Minister of Education Ali Maher wrote to Mr. Ahmed Amin asking him to write such book about National Education after the rest of the curricula were changed.
60 years have passed in Egypt since the Free Officers Revolution in 1952. This revolution aimed to eliminate the monarchy in cooperation with the Muslim Brotherhood that dreams of reviving the glory of Islam and applying the Islamic Sharia in Egypt and all over the world. This was sponsored by the Saudi Arabia, capital of Wahhabism. The goal was to use Al-Azhar institution to spread such teachings after it became a huge university. Graduates of this university are preferred in all institutions, which allow them to spread fanaticism in all institutions. This was the reason behind religious intolerance and the increasing religious outward like beards, niqab and hijab. Egyptian labor returning from the Saudi Arabia contributed to achieve such goal.
The visit of the President to the Egyptian police last Thursday was a strong message to enemies of Egypt who tried to affect the relation between the people and police in Egypt after several claims that police torture the people! Such visit came to appreciate the effort of policemen and to assure that several individual incidents won’t affect the good relation between police and the people. The President added that Egyptian police work under pressure and are willing to sacrifice in order to achieve our safety.
When my trip to Manchester was cancelled while in the New Airport as the Turkish Airline check in counter employee were trying to find any information about the Antigua & Barbuda passports I figured out the computer system information was incomplete, my doubts were confirmed later on by the Lufthansa check in counter employee no communications with the old airport server no internet moreover no ups allowed or possible! At the beginning I was furious about this luck of information but giving it a second thought I start thinking this is a kind of extreme security as I noticed thought I was able to receive mobile phone calls I was unable to call over any of my multiple lines local or overseas and I could see network coverage was full well if not how do I receive calls?
The many recent accidents that have happened in Egypt show us how “responsible” people, those who are in charge, are careless and don’t care about other peoples’ lives. One of these such accidents is the fire at the nightclub that left at least 20 people dead and many injured. Also, we can’t forget what happened in Alexandria recently due to the heavy rain and also how this careless tragedy left many people dead, while also destroying a lot of shops and stores in the city. However, without the interference of the Army to save to the city, Alexandria would be drowning right now.
The Egyptians don’t support the Palestinian cause and the Palestinian people when they decided not to visit Jerusalem. This applies to both Muslims and Christians after they refused several initiations from the Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas Abu Mazen and the Palestinian people to visit Jerusalem. The President Abu Mazen said that such visit comes to support them morally and financially. However, Pope Tawadros had to visit Jerusalem to attend the funeral of his teacher Abba Abraham. Many people claimed that such visit is a betrayal to the Palestinian cause!
The former US President Jimmy Carter said that America did not invent human rights, the opposite is true, that human rights invented America. Human rights may remind us of democracy. For long time, the American society glorified democracy as reason for its progress of civilization and economy. Democracy and human rights in America helped many people to restore their creativity and hard working for their own benefit as well as the American society. Therefore, democracy became the religion of leaders of America that they preach all over the world. However, the American experience with the Middle East changed their point of view concerning exporting American democracy abroad.
A terrorist cell was arrested in Nasr City on charges of inciting another revolution. The cell consists of five members. The number is little indeed, but they can do a lot supported by other members of the Muslim Brotherhood or other terrorist cells in different places. However, they were charged with preparing for another revolution or what can be called preparing to overthrow the government. They may be terrorists and members of the Muslim Brotherhood, but I believe they are not the real one inciting such revolution. I don’t say this to protect them, but to clarify facts about the real people who incite another potential revolution.
Why did the Pope decide to visit Jerusalem? What are the implications of this visit? This question has become sort of riddles and puzzles in Egypt after he assured several times that he won’t visit Jerusalem unless he was accompanied with Sheikh Al-Azhar. However, we suddenly found him in Jerusalem to attend the funeral of Coptic Bishop of Jerusalem. Of course he has some good reasons to do the visit at that time, but this visit comes by leader of the Coptic Church that prevents its people from such visit! In fact, this visit is a historic step that corrects a wrong political decision that was taken by the church. It was sort of a divine will that is hard to be explained. Such visit may come to support the Palestinian people that are suffering under the Israeli occupation.
Last week I was supposed to publish my weekly article from Manchester and HELL NO I was still in Egypt making guesses and building up theories how the hell that had happened and whose fault was it. I was almost certain about the simple fact that the new airport had missing information system –and it is true to a certain extend this will be my future article issue- however as facts kept unfolding over the past week I got the full clear truth no illusions in it no theories nothing but facts, so as my first part of last week article was built on theories not facts I was heading as an Information Technologist to a simplified lesson on "How to build an Information System". This will be my future article(s)! The Facts that prevented my travel on time! 1. I was due to travel to Manchester on Thursday 19 November 2015 around 4am. 2. The carrier was Turkish Airlines that I had traveled with then from Manchester some time on Marsh, they were supposed to fly me to Ankara then back to Manchester. 3. On due time I was by the Turkish Airlines check in counter to collect my boarding pass.
Anyone trying to observe Turkey’s Inclinations, especially after it destroyed the Russian war airplane, will come to find that Turkey defends terrorism more than they defend democracy. I read a lot of comments from Turkey’s politicians and I have never read any comment saying, “Sorry for killing the Russian Soldiers” even if it wasn’t Turkey’s mistake. Turkey isn’t an enemy to Russia and Russia didn’t declare the war against Turkey because of this accident.
In 1928, the Great Britain manufactured the Islamic atomic bomb and delivered to the Egyptian people in Ismailia. This bomb, that was called the Muslim Brotherhood, was able to destroy religion, identity, mind, and a large part of the Egyptian conscience. The United States developed the bomb to increase its strength. Later, it used the new bomb against the Middle East. It was called “Arab Spring Revolutions”. Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, Libya and Yemen were seriously affected by this bomb. Other countries like Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and UAE suffered from less destructive effects.
I write this article to demonstrate that the meanness of the Muslim Brotherhood has no end, and it doesn’t differentiate between life and death. This terrorist group is willing to curse and insult even the martyrs of the Egyptian army. The Muslim Brotherhood proves every now and then that they are enemies of humanity and life. All terrorists and murderers are linked to this terrorist group like Ayat Orabi, former Egyptian anchor that belongs to the Muslim Brotherhood and lives currently in America. She spoke from her exile to curse and insult the great martyr Mohammed Haroun who was a prominent officer in fighting terrorists in Sinai.
Christian citizens in Egypt dream of being martyrs. This is how their church teaches them. They believe they are very weak and less important before the government than other citizens. They fight in order to get permits to build houses of worship. Such facts tuned Coptic Christian into such weak personalities. The dream of obtaining leadership positions became sort of impossible.
After the Paris attacks, many activists rushed to put the French flag on their profiles on Facebook. They claimed they sympathize with the French people in their crisis, which is great feeling. However, none of them put the picture of the Egyptian flag in any crisis that hit Egypt since the overthrow of the Muslim Brotherhood. Moreover, some of them claimed that France has never attacked Egypt unlike America, Britain and Israel. They totally forgot about the French occupation in Egypt that killed many people and defiled al-Azhar mosque in the 18th century by entered it with horses. They also forgot about the French occupation in Algeria in the 20th century.
In last week article I predicted this week article will be written somewhere far away from Egypt; I had a scheduled flight to Manchester, whoevex, as we say in our daily prayer:- The Lord's Prayer Our father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespassess as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen The Lord had different will, I have surrendered my life to his hands since I got Psalm 91 sometime ago, but not too long ago, and a flash light in my memory reminded me while reading it for the first time, of instances in my life when the Lord really protected me! Deep inside me I did not want to Travel!
There are two events that have happened recently in Egypt. These two events are completely related, but at the same time, are contradicting. The first event was the first phase of the parliamentary elections in which the participation reached to barely 12%, and if we compare this percent with the parliamentary elections in 2011, we will find a big difference. This indicates to me that the Egyptians are not satisfied and don’t believe in the political process any more.
We heard that the Saudi regime strongly denounced the terrorist attacks at Paris assuring that the terrorists know nothing about real Islam! However, politicians and leaders of Europe know very well that the Saudi regime plays the hypocrite since the attacks made its religious institutions happy. Since Saudi family took over vast land to make the Saudi Arabia, it supported Wahhabism and paid a lot of money to spread it not only in Arab counties, but also all over the world and among those whom the extremists call “the infidels”. It’s known that the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1988 hasn’t spend tenth of what Saudi Arabia spent to spread Wahhabism.
Democracy is not an important commodity in our country or even in the region. It’s rare and precious, but finds nobody to care for. We should stop talking about democracy since many people are talking about in media and in streets. Yet, they don’t understand what democracy is. In fact, there is no place for democracy in our country. The typical Egyptian citizen doesn’t feel he or she needs democracy or civil state. He or she has voted several times for religious country and accepted a military state for more than 65 years. We need to practice democracy starting with equality.
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