Comments on: 4 Years For Kareem, What Now? http://www.mideastyouth.com/2007/02/23/4-years-for-kareem-what-now/ Thinking Ahead Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:46:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Dahlia Kholaif http://www.mideastyouth.com/2007/02/23/4-years-for-kareem-what-now/#comment-3656 Dahlia Kholaif Sat, 24 Feb 2007 09:31:47 +0000 http://www.mideastyouth.com/2007/02/23/4-years-for-kareem-what-now/#comment-3656 I just realised how contradicting my comments were. But these are the thoughts that go on in the mind of every Egyptian. Only few manage to find the answer to these questions and resovle the puzzlement either by taking up the fight or fleeing....while the majority remain lost. I'm lost I just realised how contradicting my comments were. But these are the thoughts that go on in the mind of every Egyptian. Only few manage to find the answer to these questions and resovle the puzzlement either by taking up the fight or fleeing….while the majority remain lost.

I’m lost

]]> By: Dahlia Kholaif http://www.mideastyouth.com/2007/02/23/4-years-for-kareem-what-now/#comment-3655 Dahlia Kholaif Sat, 24 Feb 2007 09:24:39 +0000 http://www.mideastyouth.com/2007/02/23/4-years-for-kareem-what-now/#comment-3655 Unfortunately, Egypt that was once the glory of the Middle East has sunk beyond rescue. It really is a saddening thing to see that a country with so much potential, so much heritage, such long records of struggle against suppression just give in to the prevailing dictatorship. One might have welcomed such autocracy if it is for the better of the Egyptian nation, but on the contrary and as always, tyranny leads to nowhere but a dead end. A few days back, the Kuwaiti parliament and nation witnessed an exceptional event in which the health minister, who was a member of the 'unapproachable' royal family, was being grilled by 3 MPs for violations and deteriorations in his ministry. I was there, and so was Egypt's prominent Speaker of People's Assembly the truly unapproachable Ahmed Fathi Soroor who observed the occurrence with extreme interest and overwhelm. Why wouldn't he? After all, such civilized constructive interrogations of ministers never take place in his country!! Seriously, it’s a shame…. I too would like to be a politically pursued individual because it only indicates that your arguments have fell upon a concerned undead ear, and that you somehow managed to create a difference. That, I applaud Karim and his fellow supporters for doing, despite that I contradict with some of his opinions. However, does that slight difference that Karim and others manage to stir worth all the punishment and torture that he will face in a country like Egypt where human rights have narrowed down to mere slogans by activists, people's delusions, and meaningless baseless promises made by leaderships? Theoretically, I'm sure it does, but when we take the current passive conditions in Egypt, am not so sure. Activists in most part of the world face troubles and obstacles, but in Egypt they pay their lives and futures in order to make a change while millions others watch and later forgetting! Is that a good bargain? Are Egyptians worth it? Generally speaking, they do deserve it, but realistically, am not so sure! Unfortunately, Egypt that was once the glory of the Middle East has sunk beyond rescue. It really is a saddening thing to see that a country with so much potential, so much heritage, such long records of struggle against suppression just give in to the prevailing dictatorship. One might have welcomed such autocracy if it is for the better of the Egyptian nation, but on the contrary and as always, tyranny leads to nowhere but a dead end.

A few days back, the Kuwaiti parliament and nation witnessed an exceptional event in which the health minister, who was a member of the ‘unapproachable’ royal family, was being grilled by 3 MPs for violations and deteriorations in his ministry. I was there, and so was Egypt’s prominent Speaker of People’s Assembly the truly unapproachable Ahmed Fathi Soroor who observed the occurrence with extreme interest and overwhelm. Why wouldn’t he? After all, such civilized constructive interrogations of ministers never take place in his country!! Seriously, it’s a shame….

I too would like to be a politically pursued individual because it only indicates that your arguments have fell upon a concerned undead ear, and that you somehow managed to create a difference. That, I applaud Karim and his fellow supporters for doing, despite that I contradict with some of his opinions. However, does that slight difference that Karim and others manage to stir worth all the punishment and torture that he will face in a country like Egypt where human rights have narrowed down to mere slogans by activists, people’s delusions, and meaningless baseless promises made by leaderships?

Theoretically, I’m sure it does, but when we take the current passive conditions in Egypt, am not so sure. Activists in most part of the world face troubles and obstacles, but in Egypt they pay their lives and futures in order to make a change while millions others watch and later forgetting! Is that a good bargain? Are Egyptians worth it? Generally speaking, they do deserve it, but realistically, am not so sure!

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