I write these lines on
Monday evening after I heard about St. Peter church explosion. I sit sad, grieved
and helpless… while listening to those asking about who lie behind this brutal
cold-blooded bunch of terrorists?
Lies behind them the
human specimen that became addicted to the evil deeds that made them in the
first place… that specimen that looted the country as they ate all that was
over the table in the era of Sadat and the thief that succeeded him… it is the
same bunch that welcomed muslim brotherhood in power and again it is the same
group that is occupying most of the public scene now… I would not have
hesitated to mention their names in clear words except that Al Ahram newspaper would
not allow this.
Lies behind them duplicity
in educational system; the one entitled to establish the community conscience
and form the socio-cultural discourse… a duplicity depicted in rote learning studying Mutoon[1],
Hawashi[2],
and Hawashi written over Hawashi[3];
a deliberate intent to complicate what God had already facilitated, until a
group of so-called-priests, assigning themselves guardians over the relation
between Muslims and God, came to exist. This group keeps maneuvering to evade actual
modernization of religious discourse by responding in the false appearance to
the call for modernization, but actually inhibiting all invitations for reform
and applying criticism and scientific disciplines over our life. This group opposes
the absolute decisive separation between religious institutions and ruling
affairs.
Lies behind them sticking
to false appearances in most, if not all, life aspects as if everyone agree on the
“music costumes” principle. Regarding this “music costumes” thing, some
families in the past that were once well-off but unfortunately became poor used
to resort to this way of showing off. They used to hire some unemployed men
dressed in rented fancy formal clothes to head the funeral procession of the
family deceased, accompanied by some musicians playing sad funeral melodies. Their
only condition was that those rented unemployed should have had well physical
built. Unfortunately, our worship places have not escaped this disease of false
appearances as we can witness this in marble floors, carpets, moquette,
decorations, towering minarets and loud speakers echoing ugly voices supposed
to call for prayers, not to mention the air-conditioners, occasions’ halls and
those experts in draining all the money you have in your pockets. And so, “Islam
became strange as it started strange”, except with one difference; Islam
started strange when the early believers had to deny their faith in public and
keep it in their heart. Nowadays, Islam’s current state of being strange can be
seen in pretending to be Muslim in appearance while no believing or faith lies
in your heart.
The same applies to
education that is supposed – as we said before – to promote mind, science and
research. However, it turned to be promoting quantity over quality, as we can
witness an empty scientific life that enjoys the most fascinating outer
appearance without including the slightest meaning or context within it.
Lies behind that evil
specimen of humans the official acceptance of their actual interaction in
parliament, parties, journalism, media and mosques. The acceptance of having
those who feel no shame to say what they say; as they say Christians are atheists
and they shall go to hell, and if it happened and a Muslim got married to a Christian
woman, he shall make her feel all the time that he hates her and not even say
hi to her. He should only enjoy her sexually like a man does with a prostitute.
This is not a bla bla talking; I heard and saw the one, called Yaser Burhami,
who said it myself. At that day, I wrote in this very space in Al Ahram
wondering about the secret why the authorities stand still before those savage
salafists.
Lies behind them a
non-efficient slow tangled complicated legal system, along with other
pre-judiciary investigative and intelligence agencies. Those agencies may have
limited authority, ruled by certain balance of powers or even infiltrated. As so,
when the disputed legal cases reach the judiciary; public prosecution and
courts, they are incomplete in a way that does not help the judge to have solid
strong support to issue his verdicts.
Lies behind them a
journalism in charge of it some people whom we knew and made sure are
incompetent on all levels; professionally, culturally, politically, religiously
and ethically as well… also, a media, whether official state TV or
privately-owned satellite channels, inflicted with the same disease. They are
even worse as they are more thick-skinned, ignorant and ill-behaved in a way
allowing them to do whatever they want.
Lies behind them an
ordeal of a nation that, according to geography, history, civilization and
culture, is well known. However, some of its sons, especially of its recent
rulers, failed to have due responsibility toward it and so, they went stealing,
looting and selling their country in the regional and international markets. They
spread corruption in its corners allowing all enemies in the region and the
whole world to mess with its security, safety and dignity.
Finally, but not last,
an incapable political, social and financial elite bunch lies behind them; this
bunch that was short of thinking for a single moment of a clear way for this
nation to come out of its current problems.
Translated into English by: Dalia Elnaggar
Translated into English by: Dalia Elnaggar
This
article was published in Al Ahram newspaper on December 15, 2016.
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see the original article, go to:
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[1] Mutoon: (Arabic: متون) the Arabic plural
word for muton (متن) which is the text
containing the main idea.
[2] Hawashi: (Arabic: حواشي) meaning
annotations, the Arabic plural word for Hashia (حاشية) which is a brief marginal notation of the meaning of a
word or wording in a text. It may be in the language of the text or in the
reader's language if that is different.
[3] Meaning adding annotations to
annotations.
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