It is a heavy
price we accepted to pay not matter what… the only thing impossible to accept
is to kneel and surrender our country for muslim brotherhood and the rest of
terrorists to forgive the Egyptian people and stop killing, destroying and
confiscating people’s life… and to dictate their conditions including giving
them carte blanche to do whatever they want whenever and however they want.
It is the price
that we let accumulating since we let go our national responsibilities on all
levels; economic, political, social and cultural… we also neglected the new
generations until they became easy prey and victims for those who focused all
their efforts and capabilities to tempt them in the name of religion.
To make things
clearer, the whole scene now is similar to a family that left its children and abandoned
them, then gangs of human smuggling, drugs, begging and robbery took the chance
to control these young generations mentally, psychologically and
materialistically… they convinced them that they are the support and backing that
can provide them with care, protection and proper guidance… and that we,
accordingly, are the criminal culprits who shall not be entrusted with the
mission of their protection, their own life or the society life.
Everyone who had
role in accumulating such heavy price shall participate in paying back…
starting from the presidents, ministers, university professors, public
education teachers, journalists, media people, people in charge of Dawaa
and preaching in mosques and churches, others in charge in sport clubs and
social associations… also political parties, civil society organizations… and
not ending by fathers and mothers.
We reacted to
such very serious issue either with disregard sometimes… with opportunism some
other times… with negativity… with despair… with negligence… not a single field
escaped from those things… either from a single one or all of them… until our
country deteriorated and corruption spread everywhere.
Yes, there was
tyranny, corruption, intrusion and also treason… these crimes were committed by
officials at the top of the regime starting from the presidential palace and
going down to levels regarded as high positions according to profession
hierarchy… and yes, there were cases that opposed and relatively resisted such
corrupted behaviors and those cases were subjected to oppression, punishment,
alienation and defamation… however, the general thing we cannot deny is that we
gave up our rights and then we evaded our responsibilities.
We are standing
before a socio-psychological case… in part of it, we have deviant sons who set
fire in whatever and whoever meet them… and what they cannot burn, they break…
break their professors’ bones… break the desks and laboratories of their
universities… and when they finished burning, destroying and burning all this, they
went into other people’s properties outside the university… they went burning
trees… they burnt the green trees.
On the other side
of this socio-psychological case, we have masses of people distributed in their
normal places… in homes, work residences, fields, factories, streets, cafes…
those masses have no manual to follow in order to pay their shares of the
price… and until this moment of writing those words on Monday morning, December
30th, people who participated in the two revolutions of January,
2011 and June, 2013… those who knew that their only program and clear target
was to topple the then-ruling regime… those people do not have any programs or
specific targets to pursue achieving with the same enthusiasm and momentum they
had during the two revolutions… the painful paradox in our case here is that
standing against chaos, rubbish, sewage discharge and administration corruption
seems more difficult than toppling the state president or overthrowing his
cabinet and aides.
On the sides of
this socio-psychological case, we have groups of those we used to call the
elite bunch… such elite bunch stays on the top… in the side of those deviant
sons, we find this elite bunch containing mostly university professors of
different disciplines predominantly by scientific specializations like
medicine, engineering, veterinary, agriculture and basic sciences… in the side
of the public masses, this elite bunch includes a wide spectrum of different
specializations and professions ranging from elite eminent university
professors to young men professional at political incitement and who find no
shame in being jobless and having no work to earn their living.
These elite
bunches on both sides are directly responsible for pushing the sons into more deviance,
violence and nihilism… and for the missing of the public masses for a working
program to face their escalating daily problems.
However, the most
dangerous is the absence of any ability to bridge the gap between those elite
bunches and the grassroots… also the absence of both will and capacity to align
these elite bunches in a coordinated or phase-designed working program despite
the clarity of the severe challenges we face.
Fathers and
mothers stayed silent when the sons used to tell them about what they
experienced during the primary stage of education… such things that used to
take place every day when they used not to give salute to the national flag nor
chant the national anthem in morning line-up… also when they used to repeat the
slogan of muslim brotherhood.
Those elite
bunches stayed silent on all that was happening and even worse than this that
used to take place in mosques; big and small ones that were established at the
bottom floors of buildings violating all regulations of construction and laws
of order… those big and small mosques were nothing but a false pretence of faith
used as protection against demolition resolutions and fines levied for such
violations.
In such regard, I
still remember when one of those, who was famous in building real estate
violating regulations, invited me to have Friday prayers with him in the mosque
he had at the bottom floor of his law-violating building… once we entered, the
mosque Imam and Quran reciter stood standing… the mosque and building owner
called the Quran reciter: hey, you sheikh X… we have Y Pasha with us today… I
want you to recite a little bit of Mariam with a little bit of Rahman
and a little more of Kahf[1],
then he called the Imam: hey, you sheikh Z… be short with the sermon for the
Pasha has limited time… make it short!!... He was the same person that whenever
he saw me getting out of the building and he entering the Kebab and Kofta
restaurant he used to own turning our lives into hell because of it, he called:
come have coffee with us… please give me some culture... he used to pronounce
it in a way mocking the word culture… also, he was the same person that used to
say on purpose to the other woman – also very famous in real estate field –
before me and others: do you remember that guy; chief of prosecutions who
wanted to buy that apartment and was willing to beg us for it!
I mentioned all
this to present you a living evidence I witnessed myself for the crimes we
committed when we stayed silent on the spread of such corruption and
unprincipled capital… also, the submission of authorities to such corruption
represented in people occupying top positions and who need apartments, cars,
parties and lavish invitations which they cannot afford.
That was part of
the soil where that generation grew up… that generation that now burns and
destroys… a muslim brotherhood upbringing in one part… and a society where
tyranny and corruption control its political, social and economic circumstances
in other part…
We did this and
now we shall pay the price.
Translated into
English by: Dalia Elnaggar.
This article was
published in Al Ahram newspaper on January 2, 2014.
To see the
original article, go to:
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[1]
These are names of chapters in the Holy Quran, however the names here are
mentioned as the man said them, not exactly as should properly said. The right
names are Mariam, ar-Rahman and al-Kahf.
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