Anniversary of Egyptian revolution
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My greetings of peace to my fellow egyptians..
I wish you all good luck on shaping your future ahead.Albeit based on the reality that I heard and see, I'm not that 'optimistic'.. )
And as I predicted before the IMs and Salafis are taking power... )Well perhaps it's for the best of Egypt.. as part of the 'continuing evolution'..
Salam / Peace
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Yes I am not particularly happy with the "fruits," of the revolution so far. I mean now we have a parliament that is 76% Islamist, with about 23% going to the hardline Salafists. Also during the last year, we witnessed a series of disturbing events including the attacks on Churches and Egypt's Christians. Also, we're already hearing talks about closing the beaches, segregating the sexes, and enforcing the veil on all women. As a liberal Muslim all this disturbs me. However, as my friend says, we could not have remained silent about the oppressive Mubarak regime just because we were scared of the Islamists.
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Salam Confused..
Yes perhaps you're right.. a society need to witness by themselves what 'sectarianism' brings, before they head to the other direction. The key thing is to always foster 'critical thinking' and 'self criticism' alive (and not easily swayed to the propaganda of blaming all bad things to the jews/israelis and/or the west).
As for the moment, my hope of 'progressive sunni majority country' with 'bright future' still lies within Indonesia and Turkey. The 'islamist' now controlled Turkey yet I think they've learned their lessons quite well, they're more of 'secular islamist' not as 'sectarian' as before. While in Indonesia, the 'sectarian islamist' won less than 20% in their election. And both countries are growing immensely on their economy, and within the next 10-20 years will be among the top 10 economy giant of the world.
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There are things from both Indonesia and Turkey which we can learn and adopt for Egypt.
Wish you all the best in Egypt..
Salam / Peace
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As an Indonesian, I might not be as optimistic, given the rampant corruption and the "hands-off" approach by the gov't. But I do hope that my country's taking the peaceful and modern path. There are hardline Islamist elements in the country, allegedly controlled by ambitious politicians, but they're unpopular.
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As an Indonesian, I might not be as optimistic, given the rampant corruption and the "hands-off" approach by the gov't. But I do hope that my country's taking the peaceful and modern path. There are hardline Islamist elements in the country, allegedly controlled by ambitious politicians, but they're unpopular.
Salam Andya.. nice to find Indonesians here..
And you think corruption is not rampant in Europe, US or middle east? rotfl
Have you heard of Helmut Kohl case? Berlusconi's Bonga-Bonga? Kickbacks to the royals on arms deal?There's a joke "in democratic countries there are no more corruptions ... only donations".
Giving out 'donation' to the politicians is not a 'corruption' it is just an 'american way'.
Salam / Peace
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I am very suspicious of wonderful news, so, unfortunately, looking back one yearon things, I am not suprised that things are as they are. If I were objective and not an incoregible optimist, I would even be surprised that they are not worse, because they definitely could be worse, much worse.
In the present world, such as it is and with the room for manoevre it allows, there is so much good Egypt can get, and I think -cosmetic improvements here or there, which of course are always welcome- and it has got it all. What it should do is not to squander it and keep it as much as it can. It can be much, much worse, as we unfortunately know, even though we would like to forget.
Salaam