"Beyond bravery"
EGYPT - "Beyond bravery": These girls were sentenced to 11 years today. The students from Al Azhar were sentenced to 17 years last week. That's the reality of the situation for the anti-coup crowd who could possibly fit under the "Islamist" or "Muslim Brotherhood" label. i.e Terrorist in the secular/military narratives.
Your media darlings, however, don't stay more than 4 hours in a police station. Yet they get all local and international media attention because the world we live in is in a sad place.
The sentencing of around a dozen teenage sisters for 11 years in prison has been yet another outrageous atrocity committed by Sisi.
However since the words and deeds of Sisi, fit into the regional objectives of the US, this verdict too seems just another ignorable crime. For as long as the key objective of US is being fulfilled, which is dilution and disruption of any form of consolidation of Political Islam, the loyal Sisi will merit friendly company and cooperation of official US.
If you have gone through the scene, and the pictures of these brave sisters, you are sure to be left spellbound for at least a few moments. Their is a lesson of audacity, firmness and conviction, and Patience in the face of tests, that perhaps many books cannot teach.
Prophet(saw) said: “The real patience is at the first stroke of a calamity” [Narrated by Anas and recorded in Sahih Al Bukhari vol 2 # 389]
Since the past 2-3 years, the global media has glued to every development of the Arab Spring. And with such a huge coverage, one would naturally expect, that this news will ring alarm bells in global audience in general and the concerned groupes and organizations in particular.
Certainly, this news is yet another high note, in the long long list of crimes against humanity, carried by the regimes, which continue to be sanctioned by the western capitals.
One would expect, that perhaps these young teenagers will be nominated for International Children's peace Prize for asking for peace to return to their country. Perhaps these brave youth will be titled as Global Thinkers in famous magazines for thinking beyond the constraints imposed by Sisi. Would they even be one of the options for the Time Magazine Person of the Year? Will they be given a Mother Teresa Memorial Award for Social Justice, for simultaneously studying and standing up for justice? Does their actions of caring for other humans in their country, earn them the Rome Prize for Peace and Humanitarian Action? Are they even eligible for award titles named in French, Spanish or other foreign langauges. Is their act of bravery, worthy of being given the various Global Leadership Awards? Will these young sisters in a metal caged, be welcomed by Obama and the Queen of England? Will any western university give them honorary Degrees? Will they be icons for any upcoming series? Will their be a new book on their views and life?
With all the hype around the Malala story, these questions are obvious. However, do we not already know their answers?
Muslim, Hijabi, Political Islam, and diametrically opposite stance to the wishes of the Western Capitals are sufficent four ingredients that will merit them for one award, i.e 'Little or no sympathy' from the corridors of western powers. They just don't fit the smoke screen which the US has crafted in thin air."
Your media darlings, however, don't stay more than 4 hours in a police station. Yet they get all local and international media attention because the world we live in is in a sad place.
The sentencing of around a dozen teenage sisters for 11 years in prison has been yet another outrageous atrocity committed by Sisi.
However since the words and deeds of Sisi, fit into the regional objectives of the US, this verdict too seems just another ignorable crime. For as long as the key objective of US is being fulfilled, which is dilution and disruption of any form of consolidation of Political Islam, the loyal Sisi will merit friendly company and cooperation of official US.
If you have gone through the scene, and the pictures of these brave sisters, you are sure to be left spellbound for at least a few moments. Their is a lesson of audacity, firmness and conviction, and Patience in the face of tests, that perhaps many books cannot teach.
Prophet(saw) said: “The real patience is at the first stroke of a calamity” [Narrated by Anas and recorded in Sahih Al Bukhari vol 2 # 389]
Since the past 2-3 years, the global media has glued to every development of the Arab Spring. And with such a huge coverage, one would naturally expect, that this news will ring alarm bells in global audience in general and the concerned groupes and organizations in particular.
Certainly, this news is yet another high note, in the long long list of crimes against humanity, carried by the regimes, which continue to be sanctioned by the western capitals.
One would expect, that perhaps these young teenagers will be nominated for International Children's peace Prize for asking for peace to return to their country. Perhaps these brave youth will be titled as Global Thinkers in famous magazines for thinking beyond the constraints imposed by Sisi. Would they even be one of the options for the Time Magazine Person of the Year? Will they be given a Mother Teresa Memorial Award for Social Justice, for simultaneously studying and standing up for justice? Does their actions of caring for other humans in their country, earn them the Rome Prize for Peace and Humanitarian Action? Are they even eligible for award titles named in French, Spanish or other foreign langauges. Is their act of bravery, worthy of being given the various Global Leadership Awards? Will these young sisters in a metal caged, be welcomed by Obama and the Queen of England? Will any western university give them honorary Degrees? Will they be icons for any upcoming series? Will their be a new book on their views and life?
With all the hype around the Malala story, these questions are obvious. However, do we not already know their answers?
Muslim, Hijabi, Political Islam, and diametrically opposite stance to the wishes of the Western Capitals are sufficent four ingredients that will merit them for one award, i.e 'Little or no sympathy' from the corridors of western powers. They just don't fit the smoke screen which the US has crafted in thin air."
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