Two recent articles approach the role of Christianity and Islam in shaping migrant rights, in both social and legal spheres. One piece details global migrant discussions at the World Council of Churches conference in Beirut, which attracted migrants and migrant leaders from across the world. Themes contributors emphasized centered on the importance of inclusiveness in religious communities, as well as the use of religious space to promote multiculturism and equality.

An article featured in The National lays out an Islamic approach to foreign workers’ rights. The theological perspective highlights the roles of “justice, equality, safety, security, and human dignity” in Islam, concepts precursory to true labor justice. It also notes the disparities between the sponsorship system and Islam, offering potential resolutions with Islamic finance principles that balance the rights of employers and employees.

Both pieces focus not only on religious principles that support fair treatment of migrant workers, but on the community-based activism that religious groups should pursue. While religion is certainly not the only ethical guide, nor the only form of organization, it is an exceptionally comprehensive social apparatus that can potentially wield widespread influence in support of migrant rights.

Our brains molded in such a way,
As someone smoke and butt in ash tray,
We have got diseases sow in our life,
They sowed and they watered,
But who knows,

It’s neither a magic nor a miracle,
It’s a preplanned game as solitaire,
Behind each face there are faces,
Look different, observe differently,
But who knows,

Our dreams and our wishes are artificial,
They prepare and control it, for their beneficial,
Our mind worked in one direction,
The path they made and are taking to hell,
But who knows,

Nobody really knows, but it probably can probably be rooted in Pre-Islamic middle east. Women in that society were considerably stronger, emotionally and mentally than other women of that time. (Do you think there would be female business women like Khadija now??… I dont think so). It has been postulated before that women would often initiate sex with their husbands and would have very satisfying sex lives, but this increase power in the bedroom could perhaps lead to increased power in society. Now this is merely my own speculation (but how it happened isnt really that important because its undeniable that women were more powerful sexually and mentally in pre-islamic middle east) but i think that in an attempt to lower women’s status in society and make them weak and subservient, the big players during Islam’s early days created rules, some of them added to the Quran perhaps and others said by scholars that became part of regular life for women and men….and thus we are now in the 21 century.

This has huge implications for Arabs and people in the middle east as it always has. This sex phobia has created a society of super horny 17 and 18 year olds that jump at the intital chance to get married to anybody just because they are dying to have sex. I have a female cousin (she hasnt told me that sex was the reason but its pretty obvious) who got married at 18 and then divorced a year later because she said the guy was an asshole. There are other women (and men) who went through the same thing. They hold of sex their whole life, dying to have physical contact of any kind with the opposite sex, they marry, have sex, and within 2 years they are divorced because they actually had the ability to think now that they werent superhorny anymore. Sexphobia also leads to an immense obession with sex. Yes..OBSESSION. These people are so sex deprived that they are looking for any excuse to talk about sex, usually ways to make it less noticable and more haram, but nonetheless, they are looking for any excuse to talk about sex. This is not the way to raise a healthy society, and it does not “honour” women, it degrades them by covering them up and making them afraid of men, it destroys their intellect since they are not taught to be independent at all and it leads to generations of 21 year olds who are already divorced and living in their parents’ flat.

Thank you, God

Just approximately a year and a half ago, there were soft, vital and green fingers, were doing their best for 6 months to build the foundations of a successful marriage
… When one of the demonic rodent was looking for a mushy basis to necrosis it
by her teeth, in revenge of failure in her marital life and the destruction of
her family under psychological illnesses.  To escape responsibility of her failure ,
there were no choice but  looking for a soft basis  in the websites  to  destroy it ,motivated by  her wicked character, enrich it    by the malice  and devil she  experienced   through her whole life, her exceeded fifty  years of evil.
In Bayram –   al-Adha feast, which could mean nothing to some people, on the other hand, for others it could be the end of worship season and pilgrimage. It could be the end of circling around the temple of God to get rid of the  sins committed against God-laws and human  values, (as if God –his majesty -in their blind eyes -is a factory director ,who waits  for his employees to  turn coat and bow under his feet  to grant  them his forgiveness and blesses )

Moreover, for others it  could  mean the scapegoat ,the sheep they sacrifice,and ask  God to accept ,thinking foolishly that this will complete their rituals ( Oh my lord  accept    this
scapegoat and  grant  us your satisfaction in return)…. so, what is the difference between that rodent which worships the Satan of her desires and thank him for his gifts to re snoop, wreak and destroy others’ efforts, and those who worship the god who may erase their crimes,  then commit more and more sins ,  to  go round the temple of God  again and again, on a HoPe of (erasing) their SiNs.

In this feast, the soft fingers which  were  attacked harshly  by the demonic rodent … have to  think deeply of  the difference between the Eucharist which is  presented to release and clear the guilt , and the Sacrifice!!,  These tender fingers have to check if people around deserve sacrifice,other wise, they themselves will be the scapegoat of others’ sin.

Some people may know the story of sacrifice’s ritual as a sheep which God replaced and relieve d the child ‘Ismail’, who was going to be slaughtered by his father ‘Prophet Ibrahim” as Eucharist for God, according to a vision in his dream…Thus, people went on this habit ever since till now, they   sacrifice the sheep seeking God‘s forgiveness,
but no one ever asks himself   was that sheep Eucharist a substitute to any sin???  Was “Prophet “Ibrahem” guilty to sacrifice his son against his sins?

Thank you God

For your   successive messages you are sending to the people to let them understand that the human civilization is based on the morals and values that do not permit the instruction of the foundation … And to let them realize that freedom does not mean having sex like animals, and intellectual liberty does not mean displacement and loss of our own identity.

Thank you God for that when you stop sending alerts to human beings means that they are under the rubble of their trash … and means that they will test your punishment for ignoring your messages and misunderstanding and the crimes against others.

Thank you for sending us rodents TO DESTROY the fragile foundations to replace it with
a solid one.

Thank you for showing us the evil souls of the demonic rodent, with their ugly faces
and sharp canines.

Thank you for the divine lights you lighten our minds about what should sacrifice and how
the Honor of sacrificing would be.

((Blindness is in the hearts and minds; it’s not in the eye’s sight))

Thank you for all of your gifts to humanity.

Yes, this is me and I HAVEN’T STARTED yet

Often i read in CNN, BBC or Reuters that Libyans are divided and the country could very possibly decent into another civil war between competing tribes or Islamists v. Secularists. Personally, I do not know the extent of tribalism or sectarianism in Libya as I have never been there. **If you are from Libya, please comment below and tell me** As we have all too often seen in the Arab World, tribalism and social divides can lead to violence and civil war. The foundation of democracy is respect for the rule of law and the respect for the constitution as the supreme law of the land. This is why the writers of the Constitution of Libya and other revolutionized Arab states have a huge task in front of them.

They must draft a constitution within the next 10 months that codifies and manifests the visions that they have for their nation and their people. Most nations that draft constitutions start from scratch, barely benefiting from other constitutions. However a constitution is like a software program and any programmer will tell you that there is no need to make a new version of a program from scratch. They learn from other programs and in some cases even use those programs and change them to suit their specific needs. There is no shame in asking from help to draft a constitution, and the judges and lawyers drafting these ones need to closely study the constitutions of the U.S, Canada and France. These constitutions all guarantee the fundamental rights of freedom, liberty and the means to be happy. I think Arabs countries should go the route that Canada has gone down and adopt “fundamental freedoms” that are guaranteed by the constitution. These should include the right to freedom of thought, of assembly, speech and the press.

The constitution will be the most fundamental part of forming new democratic societies and I think this should be done before a leader is elected. For the constitution to feel like it is absolute and concrete, it must exist before the first president/prime minister is elected. A respect for a constitution and a sense that it is more than just a piece of paper but instead the general will of the entire population has to exist if the rights we all dream of are to be realized.

The whole story started when Copts, who make at least 10% of Egypt’s 80 million population, got a building attached to a Church demolished by radical Islamists who belong to the Sunni Muslim majority. Although Copts have compromised removing the domes, crosses and megaphones from the building situated in Aswan, a southern province in Upper Egypt, this hasn’t stopped local Islamists from torching it.

Aswan’s governor has officially leaned to Muslims offenders, a position which has ignited a wave of anger among Egyptian furious Copts, especially Aswan’s local Coptic population. The military council has played fuelled the heat by being too lenient on the perpetrators, apparently to keep the public talks with Islamists in motion, and also to retain support of the Muslim traditional majority.

The Coptic minority, alongside with secular activists, have been asking long ago for a unified law for building houses of worship – A common reason for the recurrence of sectarian strife every now and then. The protesters, not exclusively Copts, have mounted in thousands from Shoubra district in North Cairo, which has a significant Coptic population, intending to march amass into Maspero, the National TV and Radio building in Down Town Cairo, only two miles away from the world famous Tahrir Sq, the area which has become the unofficial site of Copts’ protests lately.

The protesters have agreed on a sit-in infront of Maspero, asking the SCAF (Supreme Council of the Armed Forces) to sack the biased governor of Aswan. However, they were faced with armoured tanks, live ammunition, rubber bullets and tear gas. The armed forces personnel were backed by thugs with knives and sticks, who were invited openly by the state sponsored propaganda apparatus to join the protests in order to “protect the armed forces” from the Coptic Crusades, a falsified news which stirred wide public controversy and was responsible for the bloody extent of the events soon after. The state controlled TV has spread rumours accusing the Copts, live on air, of attacking and killing the military personnel with live ammunition, a lie that was withdrew at the end of the chaotic night by the Minister of Information Propaganda. The public TV has ignited a wide sectarian incitement by spreading rumours, which led some furious Tweeps to start #ShutDownPublicTV campaign on Twitter.

At least 24 died and hundreds were injured during the events, in addition to scenes of burned army vehicles. Vandalism, loot and arson were reported, in what has been called the “Tank Battle”, in reference to the infamous “Camel Battle” which has taken place on 2nd February 2011 by reportedly regime’s sponsored thugs. Protesters were run over by armoured tanks yesterday in Maspero, as shown in graphic live broadcast scenes, the footage which were confiscated by the armed forces after several private satellite TV channels had been stormed.

“I’ve been to the Coptic Hospital morgue in north Cairo, which was overloaded with dead protesters. I’ve witnessed 17 dead bodies; one of them was decapitated, one whose head was completely smashed, and several ones were deformed by the effect of military tanks and had their limbs separated.” – Hossam Bahgat, a tireless Egyptian human right defender and director of the Egyptian Initiative for Person Rights (EIPR).

The cabinet is holding an urgent meeting on Monday, meanwhile Dr Essam Sharaf, the transitional PM, has appealed to Egyptians in the early hours of Monday, local time, not to give in to sectarian strife.

Eye-witnesses have confirmed on the micro-blogging website, Twitter, that thugs and thieves have attacked several shops owned by Copts in Down Town area, a similar incident to what happened with Egyptian Jews’ business back in the forties in the very same area. The curfew was reimposed in Down Town area, among various tension spots around the capital, a measure which was lifted in June 2011 after being imposed for six months, following similar incidents during and after the revolution.

These violence raises a new set of question marks around the performance of the SCAF in the civil and political life following 25th Jan Revolution, considering at least 10,000 civilians who serve various military sentences behind the bars, let alone Maikel Nabil’s case. The latest tension and escalation of protests against the SCAF in general, and Tantawi in specific, has left lots of Egyptian activist Tweeps “optimistic” of upcoming wind of change, noting that the Camel Battle was an important co-factor in writing off Mubarak’s era, which isn’t totally different from Tantawi’s era. Louder voices are now plainly asking for resignation of the veteran Field Marshal Mohamed Tantawi, who has served as the MoD under Mubarak for nearly 20 consecutive years.

This isn’t the first time that sectarian strife resurfaces between fanatic Muslims and Copts after the revolution, as 12 people have died last May in attacks on Coptic church in Imbaba, while on March, 13 people were killed in clashes between Muslims and Copts in Tahrir Square. Worthy to mention that last new year’s eve has also seen a horrible suicide bomb at a Mass at al-Qiddissin (The Saints) Church in Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, an attack which has left 21 Copts dead. Similar incidents in the past decade include Nag Hammadi, Kosheh Massacres, and several other minor incidents. Sectarian tension is lingering within the Egyptian society, and all kinds of sedatives have proven obsolete. A real social change is the only cure for such chronic syndrome, and the new generation, backed with technology Apples and fruits, is capable of achieving that.

The Copts, largest minority group in Egypt, complain of discrimination, including a law requiring direct presidential permission for churches to be built. Weirdly enough, Egypt only recognises three religions which are Islam, Christianity and Judaism. Moreover, it allows conversions only from Christianity to Islam, not the other way. According to Sharia, the state only seals Muslim male to Christian female marriage, and not vice versa, a discriminatory law which has strongly contributed to the strife in the last couple of years.

The tension flames ahead of parliamentary elections scheduled for 28th November, the first such vote since ex-President Mubarak stepped down on 11th February 2011.

Maspero building, blue-dotted, in relation to Tahrir Square, red-dotted, using Google's satellite view

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Iran aside, all Middle Eastern countries might freely choose Islamic states. The choice is due to an identity pride in their people’s collective conscience. It is formed by emotion, tradition and history, not rationality. Rationality is a new paradigm shift in the Islamic world now initiated by Iranians.

Islam to Arab Middle East is melt with their history, a history of Caliphate and a period of “Golden Ages” of Islam, what led to military Muslim conquerors in long wars of “Jihad”, holly wars, against the “non-Muslim” world. The history of Arab and Sunnite Muslims has been proudly associated with this “Golden Ages” of Islam.

Reinforced by accumulated defeats during the Crusades and finally collapse of  the “Golden Ages”, the Arab / Sunnite Muslims have the impression of being looked down by “non Muslims”, especially during the period of British / French colonisation — a second Crusade of non-Muslims! The broken pride of Muslims is followed by the inception of a Jewish sate in 1948 in the “holy lands” of Muslims.

This Islamic identity which has been so mechanically imposed or patched up with the Arab / Sunnite world plays after all an identity formation for them and once being violated by “non-Muslims”, the reaction reaches nationalism coloured by a pan-Islamism. The reactions like Taliban’s anti-American, Hamas and Hezbollah anti-Semite character formations and are the recent examples of the pan-Islamic transformation.

Islamism in the ME is highlighted by the “non Muslim” invasion of the “holy” territories of “Muslim” Palestine — a “third Crusade” of western arrogance by propping Israel potential up to occupy “Muslim” territories. The 2003 invasion of Iraq by Bush administration radicalised the ends. Under such circumstances, Islam has created an emotion of self-identity-defence which is expressed through an Islamic front of unity with its jihadist impetus endorsed by all its traditional and historical mentioned factors–such a right-wing and Islamic front has nothing to share with the leftist anti-imperialism.

However, in Iran we have the opposite factors, factors not in the favour of an Islamic identity, but even a disgrace to such an identity pride. The reasons are many, among which: We have the plague of the 33-year anti-Iranian Islamic regime, considered by most Iranians as a force of occupier. It is  a reminder of the 7th. invasion of Muslim Jihadists who ravaged, killed, enslaved, destroyed and humiliated Iranians during two centuries of their occupation. Then we had the 16-17th century Safavid Dynasty that brutally imposed the Shiite sect on Iran by shedding blood of hundreds of thousands of Iranians. Then we had the dark period of Ghajar Dynasty in 18-19th century by Shiitising Iran with all hysterical mourning rituals of Shiite Islam.

So, with all these negative and sorrowful experiences of Islam in Iran, Iranians are not proud of Islam, thanks to the Mullahs’ regime are now getting awareness to how Islam damaged and is damaging their country. This is the reason Iranians would never freely choose an Islamic state if there were such a choice. In this perspective, the Islamic regime in Iran seems to be the last bastion of leftovers of the Islamic invasion of Muslims in the 7th. Century and once collapsed will never be reset.

Iranians are the first nation in the Middle East who reached to this revolutionary awareness that Islamic values within an Islamic state do not lead to any future for freedom, independence and democracy because it categorically denies all of them. An Islamic state does not solve the future problems in our today’s world at all, but will rather be used as populist trampoline for the corrupt, reactionary bunch of Mullahs or Islamists to create governments even with the help of “non Muslim” West, as it is the case of Wahhabites, Pakestani Islamist Generals, the US-backed Shiite government in Iraq, Hamed Karzai in Afghanistan, and maybe a faction of the Islamic regime called “Green Movement” as a government alternative to Hardliners in Tehran.

Nevertheless, Iran aside, thanks to imperialistic policy of the West and Zionistic territorial ambitions, accompanied with lack of democracy and high education, Islamisation of the region is occurring at a faster speed than its “democratisation”. The average peoples in the ME are more gravitating towards Mullah’s regime while Iranians rebut them. For them, the brutal Mullahs and clown Ahmadinejad are celebrated as the “anti-Western” heroes who stand up to Western injustice!

I do not believe such a western-phobia helps us to push back imperialistic interests of the West. Such a baseless phobia is orchestrated by radical Muslims and their orthodox leftist chorister and does not lead to independence, democracy, welfare, and progress of people, but rather is an ideological tool of extremists to cook up extremist regimes like Mullahs’ regime in the region. Such extremist states sooner or later will be economically new dependent client states to the one or another foreign key power.

A sane state is a servant of its people, a friend of humanity, and is based on the universally recognised values of democracy. Only such a sate can be independent because it is a free and conscious choice of its people and less likely would bargain over the national interests with the key powers. Such a regime will be a part of the international community with no ideological love or pathological hate towards any country.

Iranian people today distance themselves from such an ideological sate, namely from anti-western phobia by the fact that they share many traits of western values in their life, values which are banned by the Islamic regime. Iranians look for western values of secularism and democracy despite of having 1400 years of despotic Islam behind them.

The trend of such a westernisation is not solely due to a spontaneous or conscious reaction to the disliked Mullahs’ regime, but long time before the inception of this regime, Iranian middle class has followed in majority a secular and western way of life. Sometimes confused between traditionalism and modernism or melt with a moderate Islam, Iranians have been more Iranians than Muslims and this is the core of discrepancy between the Islamic regime and an increasing majority of Iranians. This is a characteristic of Iranians who differentiate them from Arab /Sunnite Muslims and it is due to the fact that Islam, contrary to most Arabs / Sunnite Muslims, has never been an identity pride for Iranians. In the depth of collective consciousness of Iranians Muslims or non-Muslims alike, Islam is regarded as an imposed doctrine of non-Iranians.

I think I started reading psychology in the year 2000 when I was about 15 years old. Psychology helped me a lot in understanding motives and ways of thinking of others, so that was a great help to me in my political activism. Also, a book I read before, about psychology of militarists for Sigmund Freud,, helped me dealing with militarists in my struggle for peace and non-violence. My activism led me to jail, so I thought to use the wasted time here in making a field study doing some psychological analysis for criminals jailed with me. I’ll try to summarize my major notices, categorize them, even knowing that these information could have been written before by researchers on criminology and psychology, but I believe that adding a new field-study from a prison in Egypt, made by a prisoner could be of a positive value.
* Sample of study
- About 30 prisoners (drug dealers, thugs, robbers, killers)
All came by military trials

1- Denial
* Denial was the greatest psychopath. I saw here criminals are living in a parallel world, different from reality.
* Nearly, every prisoner believes that he is innocent, everyone denies his crime. For moments, I felt that I’m the only one made things against the law. Some people claim that they didn’t commit their crime, but police faked the case to harm them. Others don’t see anything wrong with their crimes; just as the drug dealer who says that there is nothing wrong in selling narcotics (even he knows that it causes harm). Also, the killer who sees that it was a normal reaction from him to kill the person who insulted him or tried to get close to one of his females.
* One of the prisoners usually says “I believe that God would stand with me, because I didn’t harm anybody ever in my life”… This man killed, injured, hostaged, was jailed in lots of countries for more than 25 years and was active in trading drugs in more than 5 countries, in Europe and Middle East!
* As being with a group came by military trials in a very exceptional time, this made us very interested to follow the political news. Everyone was hoping that a political change could happen, leading to canceling military trials and freeing them. They can’t accept the idea that they harmed innocent people and deserve to be punished and rehabilitated in jail to be good citizens… But, look at it from another view, I, myself, don’t believe that I’m guilty, I don’t believe that I made anything wrong and I intend to continue my activism when I be released!

2- Schizophrenia
* Denial leads to having two identities; real one outside the prison and the other identity is the innocent one inside the jail and in front of investigators.
* I noticed also that most of criminals have two or three names. It’s common in Egypt to have two names (without a noticeable cause for that), but criminals have lots of names for lots of purposes. They use this variety to run from investigations and trials (as an accusation to Mr. A doesn’t lead to accusing Mr. B, when the investigator doesn’t know that Mr. A is Mr. B). Having two names helps them to hide their crimes from their families or any other people they don’t want them to know about their crimes. Also, having two names helps them escape from police officers and secret service.
* The direct result of having two names is having two identities (personalities) and you can be surprised at any second of changing in manners of the man in front of you. He just switches between both of them or switch on and off the other identity he doesn’t want to show in jail.
* Practically, when you deal with them, you find some of them faithful, religious, courageous, slightly enlightened… etc. But, all of that can change in seconds to see a selfish bloody person, full of hatred.
* Prisoners are also pretending all the time; pretending being rich is a common thing here. Lots of prisoners here pretend to be millionaires, they act as if they are going to buy you and your family. By time, you discover that they are poor people. Even if you didn’t get information proving they aren’t rich as they claim, their way dealing with money and how they fight for small and cheap things, make you believe that those people can’t have the amount of money they claim.

3- Lying
* Prisoners lie just for lying. One of them says a piece of a poet every day (the same piece); a part of it says, “tell me about prisoners and their lies; tell me about lies which run in their views”… Also, this man claims that he never lies, even though he lies every second!
* Prisoners don’t lie for a logical cause, they are just used to giving wrong answers as a normal reflex. They also feel power in deceiving others. They keep telling opposite (contradicting) stories about their lives. They tell false names for their sons. They could even claim of being sons of families, other than their true families.
* Dealing with prisoners taught me that you should believe that he is lying until he proves the opposite. You can’t deal with them as if they are telling they truth.

4- Ego
* Prisoners have enlarged egos. I think that the ego is the cause of all crimes. The man who kills another man because of a couple of words, the ego forced him to kill. The same with stealers and rapists. Ego is the mother of all crimes.
* The criminal doesn’t understand the idea of having borders between him and others. He sees it’s normal to interfere in others’ lives, insult them, use them, make fun of them, on the other hand, he can’t accept being treated the same way.
* Criminals also don’t believe in private property. When he sees something he likes, he just goes on and takes it (without a permission from its owner) and he doesn’t see something wrong with this. That’s why stealers don’t see something wrong in taking others’ money.
* Ego of criminals also gives them the impression that they have the right to use others and use them as slaves. When he wants something, he just orders any weak prisoner to do it. You need to have also an enlarged psycho-pathetic ego to make them fear you, and so fear of treating you the same way.

5- Complicated relation with religion
* I think this could be part of the schizophrenic point, but it has notices which should be focused on.
* Criminals have very fantastic opinions. They don’t see that Bin Laden did anything wrong. They don’t respect Jews or Christians in general (even though they respected me, thinking I’m a Christian). They hare non-believers and atheists. They are ready to kill or injure anyone telling them a bad opinion about their religion.
At the same time, they don’t pray nor fast. Their crimes (killing, injuring, stealing) are banned in their religions and they don’t see anything wrong in committing them. They use narcotics everyday, even they believe it’s forbidden by God.
* Criminals also are superstitious. They believe that dreams are messages from God which will come true. They feel good or bad when they hear specific types of birds. They believe in ghosts. They also believe in lots of myths not related to Islam.

6- Self-hatred
* This gets on surface when he is weak. It becomes obvious that he hates his life, his principles, may be even himself.
* When someone emotionally close to him tells him bad news, talk to him hardly, he starts blaming everyone led him to that crime, takes decisions to stop making crimes when he is released. Deep inside, he wishes if he had a different (regular/normal) life. Maybe, the hard time we live here in jail is the cause which makes him hates his crimes.

7- Sex-phobia and homophobia
* I believe it’s normal to be a homosexual when you are forced to live years without seeing a female. But, even if it’s spontaneous and good for them, they are still homophobic. When they know about a gay prisoner, they start insulting and beating him.
* But, this behavior isn’t related only to homosexual behavior, they nearly do the same thing towards whoever they know that he masturbates or owns sexual pictures with him.
* Schizophrenically, they like to talk a lot about their sexual adventures, with stimulant sexual details!

8- Continuous making of troubles
* Life in jail is very boring. Some prisoners will have to spend in prison 20 years or more. Egyptian prisoners have nearly nothing which can help you spend time without being bored. That’s how prisoners discovered a new way to kill time: making troubles.
* One of the prisoners told me, “the prisoner is a son of a bitch, if you gave him a finger, he will take you all, he will step on your head”… He was describing how prisoners deal with each other inside jail.
* The advantage of making troubles is that it kills lots of time and it brings with it lots of positive and negative feelings. They need those feelings while they are isolated by speechless walls.
That’s why prisoners fight each other every moment, interfere in others’ privacy, deliberately understand every word as an insult to use it to begin a fight… etc.
* Prisoners don’t know how to spend time positively and prison management doesn’t try to teach them how to do that. They don’t like to read newspapers or books. They usually aren’t interested in continuing their study from within jail.
* Long boring time and the inability to use it pushes them to use narcotics continuously to kill time and drugs make them make more troubles, and the cycle goes on.

- Final general notices

• Being a prisoner myself, made it hard for me to focus more than this. I wish I could make larger and more detailed research.
• Also, I felt changes in my behavior inside jail. Some changes are good adaptation, others are bad changes, I’ll need to visit a psychiatrist to fix them. What I’m trying to say is that in prison, there is a behavioral state affecting anyone inside and each prisoner is forced to take reaction towards it.
• Legally, there should be a psychiatrist and a social professional in jail to help prisoners. I don’t know if they exist, but if they do, we are not in contact with them in an way. This way in prison management doesn’t fight crime, but produces new criminals to society.

Maikel Nabil Sanad
El-Marg prison
18-5-2011

Maikel Nabil Sanad
2011/9/13