Lord Cromer was a founding member of the Society Against
Women Suffrage and at the same time, he was also advocating that, British rule over Egypt
was justified to help liberate its women. A lot of British women at the time,
supported British colonial activity because they bought into his argument!
Needless to say, under British occupation (1882 – 1922) education in Egypt
declined severely and numbers of graduates fell. I am reminded of these
contradictions as I read and hear of those western liberals who are decrying the
removal of Morsi and speaking out against the will of the Egyptian people forcing
the removal of the Fascist regime of Morsi and his gang. So, while they happily push forward the boundaries of freedom in the west, Egypt receives its most restrictive constitution ever with less than 20% of the voters approving it.
Please take sometime to look through the web pages of Ikhwan or
Muslim Brotherhood to see their own pride in their history of discrimination violence,
assassinations and oppression. Educate yourselves a bit before you opine on
something that you know little about and understand its subtleties even less.
Finally remember this, normally sedentary Egyptians, who
almost all smoke and hate exercise (I'm Egyptian, so I am allowed to
stereotype!) do not march several kilometers for no good reason, we are
normally as apathetic as they come, but we watched what happened in Iran since
1979 and we watched Europe in 1930's and 1940's; we learnt a thing or two about where fascism leads. So support the will of the people of Egypt or mind your own business and spare us the lectures about how democracy work, you couldn't get more direct democracy than what is happening in Egypt! Just
while we are at it, remember what happened to the Prime Minster of Egypt who
declared war on NAZI Germany and Fascist Italy? He was assassinated by the Muslim Brotherhood ..bet you never knew that!
AA
July 4 (Independence Day)
Well said Ayman
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