What does the King of Saudia Arabia want?

After the Tunisian revolution and the flee of Bin-Ali outside of Tunisia,everyone wondered where would he resort to,which country will offer him refuge. I was astounded when I heard that it was KSA that offered him refuge. KSA offered a dictator who not only did he rob his own country in a systemic and organized way through out his years as a president and a ruler of Tunisia, but also killed his own people who refused his ruling and demonstrated in a peaceful way.

Some said they were helping a man in-need,said it's a noble thing to do as he resorted to Saudia Arabia. But I never saw that as enough reason or excuse to shelter a murderer and a thief.

After the Egyptian revolution, Hosni Mubarak didn't flee the country, even though I'm sure if he did, Saudia Arabia would have offered him refuge so, instead..they tried to push the SCAF in order to delay the trial, which was working until the people got fed up with the delay and kept protesting till the trials started.

Of course Saudia Arabia said it wasn't pushing against the trials but..politicians always speak the opposite of truth,a proverb says.

The success of two countries in toppling the regime was enough to get other countries with much fierce dictators to start protesting to topple their regimes as Syria and Bahrain.

And of course, the King of Bahrain faces the angry mob protesting peacefully the same way that Mubarak and Bin-Ali, fire in the hall..bullets in the head..but for some reason the King of Bahrain couldn't do it on his own so, he asked for help from his neighbour, King of Saudia.

Of course King of Saudia came to rescue, sending an Army battalion to Bahrain to help restore “peace and order” to Bahrain, slaughtering civilians who are simply demanding freedom and a better life.

And of course we shouldn't forget mentioning how Saudia Arabia “fought off” the protesters in east of Saudia..yes the King threw away money at people after he's done suppressing the protesters but,still...

Handling of Saudia Arabia to the Yemeni revolution is a whole other thing, when Saleh was injured in military operations he started against his own Yemeni people, he went to to Saudia Arabia to receive treatment, then he came back disappointing every one who thought he has left for good. Then Saudia Arabia helped him by sending in some Army units too.

I just would like to remind the rulers of KSA that the dictators you help will die, and they wont be back in power. What's left in the end will be the people..who will never forget how you helped their dictators against them. You can't help a man against a whole nation. And the history will remember every action you did. So you choose, do you want to be praised or do you want to be cursed for the rest of time.

I realize that there are differences between the desires of people and the desires and actions of their governments, especially if they are ruled by a dictator government,let alone a King who supports dictators.

الانفلات الامني

طبعا كله عارف مشكلة الانفلات الامني اللي مصر فيها..اللي فاضله شوية و يبقى الامن ماشي على حل شعره و مش بعيد يجيلنا ممسوك في قضية اداب بعد كده...انفلات بقى..!!

طب يا ترى ايه سبب الانفلات ده اللي يعزى اليه وقوف عجلة الانتاج اللي المجلس العسكري و مجلس الوزراء و مصر كلها بتفخ و تزق فيها عشان تدور و في الاخر مدارتش..و حتى المظاهرات و الاعتصامات ,اللي هي حق مشروع و منعها و التصدي اللي كان بيحصل ليها من امن الدولة و الامن المركزي هي سبب من اسباب قيام الثورة,منعوها عشان عجلة الانتاج دي..

هل ياترى الشرطة واخدة في نفسها و زعلانه من نظرة الشعب ليها؟طب مش هم اللي عملوا في نفسهم كده من الاول لما انسحبوا من كل المواقع حتى معبر صلاح الدين اللي مع اسرائيل..و هل حل النظرة دي انني اقعد في بيتي؟اخد مرتبي من ضرايب الناس اللي مفروض بحميهم..باخد مرتبي من مرتبهم عشان اقعد في البيت؟طب ما ده ههيخلي النظرة اسوأ..

ولا هل يا ترى هيبة البدلة راحت يا باشا؟انا اللي اعرفه ان في حاجة اسمها قانون و قوة بيتطبق بيها القانون...مسمعتش قبل كده عن تاجر مخدرات مثلا شاف ظابط ماشي في الشارع فقام سلم نفسه عشان خاف من هيبة البدلة..اما بالنسبة للشعب..فالشعب بيساند الظباط لما بيقوموا بواجبهم...و الدليل على كده..مأمور الموسكي لما جاب الالي بتاعه و داغع عن الحي ضد البلطجية..الناس وقفت وراه و ساعدته..ماوقفتش ورا البلطجية..

ولا البلطجية دلوقتي كتير و زي الرز؟طب ماهم لما بيحبوا يمسكوا حد فعلا بيمسكوه...و حصلت اكتر من مرة...حتى لو وصلت انهم يحددوا موقعه باستخدام موبايل المطلوب القبض عليه عن طريق القرية الذكية...و عندهم معظم,ان لم يكن كل,المعلومات المطلوبة للقبض على معظم المسجلين خطر...امال لما حد بيبلغ عن جريمة...بيعملوا عرض للمتهمين ازاي؟

يا اما حاجة تانية خالص غير الكلام ده...ان المجلس العسكري انشغل بحماية الثورة عن حماية الشعب..يعني الصراحة المجلس معذور برضه..مابين اعلان دستوري لم يلتزم فيه بالاستفتاء اللي حصل على الدستور..و لم يستشر فيه احد..و تحويل صحفيين و نشطاء للنيابة العسكرية..و تحويل مدنيين للمحاكمات العسكرية..اكيد هيتبقى شوية وقت و مجهود..عشان ينام قبل الخطوة اللي جاية..

المشكلة ان يكون المجلس العسكري يهدف لان يجعل الناس تشعر ان الثورة سلبياتها اكثر من ايجابياتها..خصوصا ان مفيش حاجة اتغيرت من قبل الثورة عن بعد الثورة غير ان مثلا..بدل ماكنت بتروح امن الدولة عشان رأي سياسي..بقيت بتروح النيابة العسكرية..و مصر نقصت 800 نسمة..و طبعا..الاحساس الزائف بالامن..راح.

طب و ليه يهدف المجلس العسكري لكده؟طبعا رغبة منه في الدفع بمرشح عسكري للرئاسة..و بالتالي الناس تتجه اليه بوصفه المخلص..عسكري و هيشكم البلد و حسب معظم الكلام اللي بسمعه من الناس..ده المطلوب..رئيس عسكري يرجع الامن..و لحظتها..هيبقى كأنك يا ابو زيد ماغزيت..ولا اتظاهرت لمدة 18 يوم..و عملت ثورة و مات منك 800 او اكتر كمان...

الافكار المقولبة

الافكار المقولبة هي شيئ بسيط جدا في تعريفه...هي ان سعادتك تحكم على واحد في حاجة من خلال صفة لا تمت الى الصفة دي في شيئ...لخبطتك؟

نجرب المثل ده...سعادتك ماشي في الشارع...بتتفرج على تليفزيون...او بتبص على صورة حد في الجورنال...هوب..لقيه لابس حظاظة او سلسلة او ما شابه...هوب..يبقى الواد ده ماسوني(الاتهام المفضل لمعظم الناس في الفترة الاخيرة) او عيل سيس (الاتهام الثاني من حيث التفضيل)...

هتقوللي:” لا و الف لا..انا مش بعمل كده..” هقولك مش شرط عشان مقولتش ماسوني او سيس تبقى افكارك مش مقولبة...انت اول اما بتشوف دكتور داخل عليك مثلا المحل..بتبقى عامل ازاي؟عينيك بيظهر مكانهم $.$ زي عم دهب اما يقع في ايده صفقة العمر...رغم ان في الحقيقة الدكتور ده زيه زيك..بالعافية و بالمجهود مستورة عليه..

طب ليه اتسمت مقولبة يعني؟عشان ساعدتك بتبقى جهاز..اول ما ندوس على زرار(بمعنى انك تشوف حظاظة)..تقوم مطلع قالب (قايل عليه ماسوني او سيس او صايع)..

طب انا ليه ناحر في قلبي و بكتب في الموضوع ده؟عشان حرام نفضل بالصفة دي فينا حتى بعد الثورة..خصوصا ان الافكار المقولبة نشأت نتيجة الرضاعة من الاعلام المصري..و الكسل في انك تقوم بمجهود حقيقي عشان تقيم اللي قدامك...يعني ايه الاسهل؟حظاظة يبقى الواد ده سيس...ولا تقعد تسمعه..و تفكر في كلامه و تقيمه و تاخد قرار في الاخر؟

المطلوب ان كل واحد قبل اما يصدر قرار على حد..قبل اما تحكم على حد انه كويس او وحش..دور وراه..اسعى شوية انك تسمعه و انك تفكر في كلامه...شغل مخك قبل اما يصدي منك...ماتخدش اي كلام يتقالك على انه حقيقة...لأن هو ده اللي حصل ايام الثورة لما قالوا اجندات و كنتاكي..لو كان حد فكر في الكلام قبل اما يصدقه مكنش فيه حد صدق حكاية الكنتاكي دي و بالفعل اللي حاول يعرف الحقيقة و راح شا و سمع بنفسه..انضم للثوار في التحرير..

في نكتة سمعتها من واحد اعرفه...قالك ان انضف مخ في العالم هو مخ المصري...عشان لسه بكرتونته...يا ريت نغير ده...و نسعي لمعرفة الحقيقة قبل اما نقولب..

Amr Moussa in Tanta:could this be his end?

As Egypt moved on the new way of reforms and development after the revolution and while everyone started to talk politics, Tanta university decided it should play a role in spreading political awareness among student. As they said in this statement they handed to students who were going to attend Amr Moussa's session.



it started out as an event on facebook,the site that all the government officials started to use to get in contact with the people after the revolution, Amr Moussa is coming to Tanta to be celebrated as a famous person who grew up in Tanta as he said,also to talk about the "post-revolution phase" as people call it.

Problems started to happen when people find out 2 days before the event that whoever wants to attend has to register first,that wasn't a problem except that..some names,who were known to be against Amr Moussa or with too knowledge and political awareness to cause trouble,were striked out. Some had their names removed the minute they wrote it.

People already began to become sceptical about the meeting, especially that the head of our university was an NDP member before it got dissolved.
So,people agreed that if any one was denied entry,a sit-in will take place till everyone gets in.
The university administration tried to make a smart move, everyone was allowed to attend, no names were checked (though the bags were searched by the security of Amr Moussa)

then we were shown to another hall, where we were supposed to see Amr Moussa through a screen, mics were said to be handed later to those who want to ask, but we didnt buy it (which turned out to be the right thing to do since no mics were handed out to those who wanted to ask in the hall where Amr Moussa himself stayed, those who wanted to ask had to shout or take it to the stage after permission).



and of course, as we went inside (and even before we went inside the conference compound) signs welcoming Amr Moussa were all over the place






So,now we are in another conference hall where we realised that we, most probably, wont be allowed to ask questions, a debate started about what we should do that ended with a decision that we'll start a sit-in till we're allowed inside the hall where Amr Moussa himself was to sit.

As we started a sit-in we noticed some people flashing certain cards,papers being checked before security let anyone inside the main hall



while they were allowing few, selected people inside,these crowds started to show discontent with what they're seeing.



mean while, the wireless Internet suddenly gets closed, we cant tweet and definitely cant stream what's going on. Apparently, a security guard over heard us speaking about using the wireless to stream the event,5 mins later.it's down.

with all these elements working together, the students started to protest chanting :"where are you freedom, the state security is between us andyou" (rhyms in arabic)

and then the students start to push against the guards to enter the hall,after negotiations of groups of students with guards didn't work out.








and we finally manage to push against the guards, once I got inside I got stunned by those lovely people holding pictures of Amr Moussa the thing that reminded me of Gaddafi's hypocrites.



we then waited for like another 30 mins inside the hall itself till Amr Moussa came (which I personally think was a disrespectful thing a politician would do).
Then,along came the champ making a nice statement that he wants to be among the youth.and of course,who is better than the head of university?especially with the enormous objection of the students on her (whenever she was mentioned in the session she was booed, and well, Amr Moussa was booed by some people too when he came into the hall).


he got so mingled with the youth,I couldn't reach him!


then he spoke, I video taped the first 5 minutes of his speech.got greatly discouraged by people around me who said :"what are video taping?he's boring!".but that was what some people thought. yet I think there are some parts of the session that should be mentioned.




he then was asked a question about the Gaza war and why he didn't ask for a no-fly zone back in 2008.



want to know what he said as a reply?that the war on Gaza in 2008 wasn't a war,it was a blockade,and the Arab league succeed at breaking that blockade..
He didn't give an answer to a single question,even one as simple as how are you going to develop Egypt..he answered:"I promise I'll develop Egypt" but didn't give any further details about what he has got in mind to do so.

He also answered that he "supported Mubarak as a person but was against his policies" when he was asked about whether he supports or opposes the fallen regime

He didn't answer the question directed to him about his stance about protesters in Tahrir when he tried to convince them to leave.he simply said:"I support democracy"

click here and here and here for the 3 parts of the session that went on

I noticed this young man wearing this shirt during the session, he was the one who collected our questions and delivered them to Amr Moussa, apparently he was a member of the campaign as he stated so himself thus proving the session aimed as presenting Amr Moussa a presidential candidate not as the Dean of the Arab league and a famous person to talk about the "post-revolution phase"



finally, he stopped answering our questions and simply took off.but not without making a dramatic scene first.(click here if the video below didnt work)




now people ask why did we run after the car..I ran to tape the video,others ran to demand their right to be heard, some to demand the right of the lady who,even though you might think she wasn't assaulted , but she got humiliated,imagine she was your mum and someone kept pushing her like that trying to silence her up.

I let you be the judge of what I put before you. Read,think and decide

Disturbances in Tanta

After the revolution succeded at removing a 30years old regime,causing the tyrant to flee to Sharm El-Sheikh,everyone started dreaming of New Egypt.Among these dreamers were the students of Tanta University.They dreamt of a better education,better laboratories,of some respect from their Porfessors who treated them like garbage (not all of them though,but the majority were treating students badly).
The believe in changing these dreams from a mere dream to a fact,a reality on the ground grew bigger when Deans (some of the Faculties Deans not all of them) announced they're willing to hear out the students,see their demands.
So,students made their lists of demands, were very rational about it.made a list of demands that can be achieved now and other demands that would take time, effort and money to achieve it and they were willing to wait till these demands are executed. After all,rush in reforms can result in bad reforms.
The surprise was how the Deans reacted towards these demands.between procrastinating in carrying them out and threats of firing all students who came to the meetings to submit their list of demands,Deans varied in how severe they reacted but the result was the same...Nothing was accomplished!
It was normal that Students decide to protest for their rights and for the resignation of the Head of University who was appointed in her position only because she worked with Suzanne Mubarak at a time and she's a woman (or at least,so the students believe)
these pics are from one of the protests











it's worth mentioning that the University administration gave us a deadline by which we should have agreed, as students, upon an outline for the final exams schedule. Couple of days later,there was a white paper on the board...the final exams schedule. I think this showed us how committed they, the University administration I mean, are committed to our demands.

Constitutional referendums: YES or NO?

I can’t hide my happiness with the debate currently taking place all over Egypt about the constitutional referendum. This is a product of democracy. For the first time in 60 years Egyptians don’t know the result of a voting. All of this wouldn’t have been possible if we didn’t risk our lives for the sake of our freedom.

So, I’m writing this article mainly to help people make up their minds about the referendums. Stating what each “camp” has got to say to support their opinion and you make up your mind in the end. You can disregard my comments in between the brackets as it mainly reflects my personal opinion. I tried to be un-biased as hard as I can

If you still didn’t read the referendums yet try checking them out on here or here.

SAYING YES:

• Advantages:

1. it’ll contribute, somehow, to the return of stability, safety and security to the streets. This would contribute to the process of rebuilding our Egypt
2. this would help the Egyptians “get rid of” the military governing we currently suffer from.
3. when we have civic ruling we can have all the debates, protests and sit-ins we want.

• Disadvantages:

1. some people say that article 189 doesn’t really oblige the new government to make a new constitution. Law professors say that the article is obligatory, others say the new government may choose not to comply to such obligation, or stall (risky, because then we’ll have to resort to the streets to claim our rights)
2. time required to get rid of military governing is 12-18 months. This time is more than enough to make a new constitution. Instead of starting new Egypt with a temporary constitution, why not start off with a new, permanent constitution?
3. there will be too many elections and polls to be made during that time. That would disturb the education process
4. NDP might get a chance to jump back into the parliament either as a reformed NDP or a new “25^th January” party and the “freedom” party they are trying to found. New parties won’t find time to be found or establish and publish their ideas and policies.

• What would happen if we said yes?

1. Optimism: NDP, somehow, won’t be able to jump back in power. Everything goes smoothly. New constitution and thus a fresh new start for our Egypt (not that likely to occur and we’d still suffer from 8 elections: 2 parliamentary elections and one presidential before the new constitution. The new constitution plebiscite and the 2 parliamentary, 1 presidential elections after the new constitution)
2. Pessimism: NDP does manage to get back into power (either as NDP, or as 25^th January or the freedom parties, all three parties are NDP), enforcing their policies and candidates because they’ll be the most organized party on the political scene. So, we’ll have NDP government all over again (more likely to occur)

SAYING NO:

• Advantages:

1. the start of writing a new constitution that would provide a fresh start for Egypt
2. gives time for newly found and not yet found parties to get themselves organized and publish their ideas in order to get people’s support and attention.
3. once stability, safety and security are returned to the streets, it’ll be permanent because of the presence of a permanent constitution

• Disadvantages:

1. the state of chaos present in the country will last a while longer (may be till a constitution is made). But some political activists see that the main defense against chaos is the people themselves as they did on 28^th January after the police abandoned their posts. Quoting Benjamin franklin when he said: “he who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither
2. the military governing will be continued (but as I said, it’d last either way for 12-18 months till a new president is elected if we accepted the referendums and it can be replaced by a presidential council made of 2 civilians and 1 military figures).

• Additional note on NDP (personal opinion) :

The only way to ensure that the NDP won’t participate in politics is by issuing a law preventing them from practicing any political activity for 4 years.

1. if we said yes: there won’t be enough time to pressure the Armed Forces council to issue such a law, especially with their slow responses to the revolutionaries’ demands they’re showed so far. Parties won’t be able to organize themselves to compete with the NDP too.
2. if we said NO: there would be enough time to pressure the council to issue such law. Also, it’d allow the other parties to organize themselves. Thus, even if the law wasn’t issued, there will still be powerful competition from other parties

Hope I was as un-biased as I wanted to be.

About the recent events I say

I’d like to state that I, as a Muslim, am not represented by the events that happened in the past days, carried out by a group of people who call themselves Muslims. They don’t understand anything about Islam and yet they act in its name.


First: The interception of women protests: it’s an absolutely outrageous thing, Islam orders us to respect women not to harass them and intercept their protests. Beside, we are ordered to give the women their right, whether they want more rights or they believe they’re receiving no rights or whatever their opinion is, and you don’t agree with them, simply argue with them. In a civilized, intellectual manner. Intercepting them, harassing them and yelling at them shows you know nothing of your religion (whether you’re a Muslim or a Christian).

Women’s role is noticed throughout the Islamic history, I just want to state one of these roles : the person who narrated most of Hadith (prophet’s saying, guidance and rules in Islam) was his wife Khadeeja.


Second: As for the incidents that have happened in Atfeeh: I couldn’t condemn it more. This is totally stupid, absolutely ignorant thing to do. The prophet said that if we hurt a Christian or Jew, it’s like hurting the prophet himself. To burn a church and kick Christians out of their homes is in total violation of what our religion asks us to do. This is terrorism. Terrorists are cursed in Islam and have punishments varying according to their crimes.

There are believes that all these incidents are happening because the “State Security” wants revenge from the people for what has happened (the breaking into the HQs of the SS and confiscating documents). I think that the SS used the most powerful weapon that the Mubarak’s regime has been using and strengthening it for 30 years…ignorance.
The educational system in Egypt teaches students not to think. It changes them to information receivers. Trains them to shut down their brain and just do what they are told. It wouldn’t be hard for an SS agent to convince people that those Christians should be exiled from the village, with the help of other SS agents (who would be among the people, show agreement with what the SS agent says and thus convince the people that what he’s saying is a good idea).

All of these incidents serve the SS, in my opinion, to achieve three goals:

• Distract the people from the constitutional amendments.
• Divide and conquer: make people long for the era of Mubarak, when people lost their dignity and had a false sense of security. Also that would make the revolutionaries mission to fight for freedom much harder since they won’t be fighting the loyalists to the fallen regime, but also they’ll have to convince the people that what they’re doing is for their own good
• Down Essam Sharaf government: since it’s a revolutionaries chosen government, showing it as a helpless government that can’t run things in Egypt would damage the revolutionaries image, people will suspect their choices and demands which will also contribute to making the mission of the revolutionaries harder.

We shouldn't let them have their way, we’ll show them that we are united. I have Christian friends, they were among the people who attended my grandma’s funeral. We are Egyptians first and foremost. Killing us won’t get them their regime back. We’ll not go back to the era before 25th January. We didn’t fight for freedom to lose it to a group of empty-headed SS agents. We’ll show them that we are one. And on Friday Christians and Muslims will protest together to show unity. They’ll chant together for freedom and dignity we longed for. And the SS agents will fail.