If you haven’t been following the news lately and haven’t heard that Egypt has its first elected civilian president, then you need to get with the times!
The past couple of days the population anxiously awaited the election results of the country’s first Democratic elections. The days leading up to the announcement the air was heavy, the conspiracy theories were flying around like moths to a flame. The majority of the nation predicted that Shafik would win since he had rubbed elbows with many of the big guns in the army. The thought of former President Mubarak’s Prime Minister as head of state infuriated so many that it drove hundreds if not thousands of people back to Tahrir square. The idea of having a member of the former regime as head of state would mean that the Revolution and the death of those who gave their lives to end dictatorship was for nothing.
As Sultan read the reams of papers pertaining to the election process, number of votes from abroad and all the governorates, people were guessing who the next president would be right up until the last second. When he announced Morsi had won by the skin of his teeth the celebratory cheers of jubilation were heard throughout the nation, fireworks were set a light and gunfire rang out too.
I am not one who likes to jump to conclusions or assume I know someone or can guess their plans, so I would prefer to wait and see what our new President will do before I pass judgment on him. I can however pass judgment on some of those who chose him for what I believe to be the WRONG reasons.
Sunday, the day following the announcement a woman on twitter tweeted posted the following; “الوندر ولية المصرية@BerbelNinja
Random stranger to me while I’m walking to work: “aho morsy galkom w haylemik enty w el sharameet el zayik. Ya kafra”. Awesome start.”
( Translation: here, Morsi has come to you and he will teach you and the other whores like you, you none believer)
5 young girls between the ages of 10 and 12 were in Montaza, Alexandria yesterday. They had left the beach dressed in shorts and a t-shirt to go to get some food from McDonald’s, when a group of manaqabeen (fully covered women) said; Tomorrow Morsi will teach you how to dress.
A journalist friend of mine, posted this as her status on facebook; “Yesterday, while waiting for my friend at the airport, I heard this Egyptian guy, who had just arrived from God knows where, “boasting,” to his family that he said “Fuck you Bitch,” to a tourist who was crying and saying she doesn’t want to visit Egypt again, after she realized that her luggage was lost at the arrivals. Nice! That’s how you treat the tourists! Idiot.”
I concur if we are not going to bring the tourists back to boost our economy and keep the history of our ancestors alive. Does this mean that we will be solely dependent on the investment from Gulf countries.
If this ‘IS’ what THE PEOPLE of Egypt are expecting and want for our country, then I am greatly perturbed and worry for the rights of women and their future in the coming years. I have been in the field of education for 11 years now and I have been fighting against ignorance tooth and nail. I am not one to throw in the towel or declare defeat, but if this is what the country is coming to, I will NOT go down with the ship. It pains me to say so, but I don’t want to be hidden under a long cloth and be silenced. It isn’t me or how I was raised.
I AM independent, I AM intelligent, I do have a purpose other than being a child barer and slave in the kitchen and I fully intend on staying that way too.
(picture in the post was copied from; http://www.albawaba.com/news/morsi-working-formation-new-government-431356)
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June 26, 2012 at 22:37
Don
Nadia, your part of the Egyptian population, i.e. the “moderates” will have tough going against this administration. When the young people were revolting, speaking, shouting and singing in Tahrir Square they ignored one thing that is a requirement to change a government. YOU MUST HAVE LEADERS WHO ARE READY TO LEAD!
Obviously, the Muslim Brotherhood did have those. Obviously the military thought they had them but chose to override the will of the people of Egypt because they are the military and will do whatever they please, including usurping power from a freely elected candidate.
Unfortunately the young people filled with hope and promises could not overcome their own jealousies and rivalries to settle on a leader. Now they may be sitting around a campfire, roasting marshmellows and talking about “what might have been.”
For the rest of you who must go about your lives and businesses in all of Egypt, you can wait and watch again and hope that Mursi is not actually a Muslim ideologue who want’s to impose Sharia’a on everyone.
One of the American slogans that everyone forgot to remember (as many do here in America every day) is “The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.”
July 6, 2012 at 18:45
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The whole world is watching Egypt’s first freely elected leader in 60 years, U.S.-educated engineer Mohamed Morsi. Last week Morsi narrowly defeated (51.7 percent to 48 percent) former President Hosni Mubarak’s last prime minister, Ahmed Shafiq, for the presidency. Morsi faces formidable challenges at home, where the military’s role remains unclear and unemployment is rampant, as well as scrutiny from the West and Israel. A longtime member of the officially banned Muslim Brotherhood, he became a candidate after the Brotherhood’s first choice, Khairat el-Shater, was disqualified. Greeting throngs of elated supporters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square on Sunday, Morsi proclaimed himself a leader for all Egyptians, vowing to protect the rights of women and children, Muslims and Christians, and on Monday he announced plans to appoint a woman as vice president.
July 14, 2012 at 21:50
Don Liston
Mr. Morsi will have his work cut out for him but I like the idea that the asked the generals to reconvene Parliament. If they fail to do so, they will seem weak and frightened of losing power but if they do reconvene Parliament, they will lose power. The generals don’t understand democratic governments, rules or regime changes. If Morsi gets by this obstacle, he has a good chance of gaining the confidence of the YOUNG Egyptians and they are actually the “in charge” people now.
July 10, 2012 at 15:23
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For this reason, a young Egyptian man named Mohamed Saleh dismissed the importance of the presidential vote. “(Morsi) doesn’t have the power — SCAF has the power,” he said.
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