Monday, November 13, 2006

Protest anyone?

Last week there was a protest in Cairo for the Eid sexual harassments incidents in downtown Cairo, and as I expected it only gathered a few hundred people.
Now all this protests deal really amazes me in our Arab world, when Israel kills Palestinians or wages war against Lebanon, you get thousands of people protesting in the streets, when the US and its allies attack Afghanistan or Iraq, same story and please don't let me start on what happens when someone say any word about the prophet Mohamed.
On the other hand, women get attacked in the middle of the streets, and activists organize a protest but nobody shows, we get struck by terrorist attacks which would have effects on every one of us but nothing no protests. We hear of police torturing people for saying their beliefs, you get a few dozens here and there protesting.
Iraqis kill each others, why do we care they should settle their internal affairs, and the same way goes for Palestinians fighting each other.
Now please someone explains to me what is the sense in all of this, do we really care about other people as long as they are Arabs or Muslims than we care about ourselves?
Or have we gone that blind that we only see what the west is doing to us but fail to see what we are doing to ourselves?
I'm not saying we should forget about what's happening in the world and concentrate in our own affairs (although this would be one smart thing to do) but there are priorities right? And don't forget that people we are protesting for are becoming martyrs so we should rejoice for them not be angry.
God knows that Egypt has done a lot for the Arab world for nothing and all we got in return was hatred and envy and all sorts of bad feelings towards us.
People wake up, mind your own business first then look outside; no one will be willing to help us when the shit really hits the fan. Right?

Waldorf

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