Today, we continue publishing the
comments I received through my e-mail and Facebook page in discussing the
answer for the question imposed by Mr. Ghassan Tahboob in comment over an
article I wrote in Almasry alyoum tackling the subject of reconciliation with
muslim brotherhood and their probable coming back to the Egyptian political
life as a participating party approved on by the society.
The question was: what is the
alternative that can fill the space left in the Egyptian and Arab political
life? I have already published some comments of those who follow and are
interested in what I write while some others wrote blaming me for not
publishing their points of view.
Today, I publish what is already
written in my e-mail and over my Facebook page on the pages of Almasry alyoum… I
do that because I want the newspaper of Almasry alyoum to be a place for a wide
range-debated national and Arab national dialogue discussing the present and
future of our countries and Arab nation. The reader who has no access to e-mail
or Facebook shall have the right to know and read that dialogue… so, again I thank
all those who participated and commented and all who read… I also thank the
editing and management staff of Almasry alyoum for that distinguished role.
Mr. Muhammed el-Ramadi wrote blaming: “the
first step on the way of reform is that the political leadership shall agree
with us in our hopes and goals so that our common goal can be the rock blocking
the way in front of those who mess with our nation’s future”.
Dr. Saed esh-Shimi also wrote trying
to predict the future however I believe his words are dangerous: “we try to
find an exit without being fully acquainted of the international changes we
have already tackled and discussed since the nineties… that is… a new era is
going to start in December 2020 when the Anglo-Saxon Christian western
civilization is declared dead and a new human civilization, coming from the
east where China, Japan, India, the two Koreas and Iran are, is born…
Unfortunately, many gulf regional countries will go behind a Shiite Islamic
tide that will continue to expand in the 150 years to come… like what happened
before with the Ottoman Empire… it’s what I think our children and
grand-children will face… and these are just abridged headlines”!
Mr. Emad Gerges wrote: “the answer is
one word… Freedom… freedom of speech and expression without limits… without
security or political constraints”.
Mr. Muhammed Ghazi said: “the absence
of role model leader is the cause behind this… and here I don’t mean the
charismatic leaders like Muhammed Ali, Saad Zaghloul and Gamal Abdel-Nasser… I here
mean the modern example of leadership… I also believe that people should truly
believe in what they claim of loving their country”… then Mr. Ghazi focuses on
the issues of corruption spreading, absence of social equality, and role of
intellectuals.
Dr. Sameh Morkos, Medicine professor
in Britain, affirms that there is no reconciliation and no place for the
ideology of muslim brotherhood in the twenty-first century… and that secular
culture is the one ought to occupy the cultural domain… he also believes that
we shall not achieve any progress in our Egyptian and Arab societies unless we
move from the dependency mentality to the scientific one and that we shall
change from pre-modernization into post-modernization standards calling for
adopting the subjective scientific thinking… and a cultural revolution shall
take place to spread secularism and to call for radical change in the
educational system… As Egypt has already been once on the way of modernization
in the first half of the twentieth century and giants in all cultural and
scientific fields were brought up through an advance educational system…
Egyptian intellectuals in this era shall unite and work to spread secularism
and adopt a progressive educational project and media program calling for
spreading the civilized human culture and thought… we should make use of the
Egyptian philosopher Murad Wahba who adopted secularism and stood bravely in
face of salafism and uncovered their reactionary ideology and how shallow it is…”
Dr. Sameh Morkos finally recommended
that we, I and Dr. Wahba, should communicate together saying: “I hope a
workshop attended by real Egyptian intellectuals – and they are few – is organized
to conduct a serious discussion and to present a document depicting means of
establishing secular cultural in Egypt and pave the way for a radical reform in
the education system instead of those empty discussions over islands most
Egyptians know nothing about”.
Engineer Hazem Radi also gave a long and
rich-in-contexts opinion saying: “the main idea which I call the comprehensive
vision is focused on building a real human who has a critical mentality, a
comprehensive vision for life and clear definitions for human, country,
religion and society… and that the state shall work hard to achieve such target…
otherwise we will be semi-humans… building semi-society… living in semi-state…
and then all abnormal ideologies, looking forward to “master the world” and
take control of humans and turn them into senseless robots, will control us.
The Egyptian has to realize that he is
psychological and sociological sick and has to accept therapy no matter bitter
and hard it is… as without this therapy, he will remain sick suffering from his
economic, social and psychological illnesses… he will complain forever unless
he starts therapy.
Real beginning is education… then
education… and finally, education… the philosophy of education has to start by educating
the meanings of life, love, brotherhood, equality… by educating the meaning of
difference and how to be different over means and not goals… the philosophy of
education has to start by educating the real meanings of country and land.
Second point is economy… definition of
economy is the best way to manage resources to maintain human development as
economy has always a goal to achieve… in my opinion, any economy that is not
seeking human development will fail on the long-run even if it succeeded on the
short-run… The economy has to serve the whole society through developing the
human intellectually and make him free, creative and forgiving… I don’t care if
that economy is capitalist or socialist as long as it cares about developing
the individual and the family and it maintains basic prerequisites for the
society.
The third point is politics… politics
is about achieving people interests… politician is the man who works with a
specific target in his mind to achieve using any means… this man can make peace
between those fighting and disagreeing to fulfill his target… but does that
politician have to be a man of ethics? Here comes the role of normal bringing
up in making that politician a man of manners… so he doesn’t stab you in the
back… and does not resort to mean means or make use of pain or honor to reach
his goal… all this is connected to education goals we have already talked about
before.
In the coming article, I shall state
my own opinion over the matter.
Translated into English by: Dalia Elnaggar
Translated into English by: Dalia Elnaggar
This article
was published in Almasry alyoum newspaper on July 13, 2016.
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original article, go to:
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