Hypocrites!

Posted on By 3arabawy

Give me a break! I can’t take this bullshit anymore!

Mubarak’s grandson died? I’m heartbroken, but to declare three days of mourning at the State TV and private satellite channels, stop broadcasting films and songs, and just keep playing religious tunes and Quran on private and public radio channels?!! That’s just too much! Oh, and not only that, the Muslim Brothers, Ayman Nour  and the opposition were also quick to send condolences and express their devastation over hearing the news of the tragic event. Film screenings are canceled and the Cairo Opera House is in “chaos.”

Excuse me, Who is Muhammad Alaa Mubarak? A government official? A national hero? Who is he to put the state on hold for three days?

Why didn’t we have this national mourning when the kids in Duweiqa died? Everyday there are children who die in Gaza because of Mubarak’s insistence on strangling the strip by closing the Rafah crossing, No national mourning for that? What about the Mahalla children who were abused by Mubarak’s police in April 2008- No mourning for them?! What about those children who get whipped by Mubarak’s police in custody, no mourning for them?! No national mourning for the Shaha kid tortured by the police by electric shocks to death?!

Hypocrites!

Egypt court sentences 24 to die over land clash

Posted on By 3arabawy

From Reuters:

An Egyptian court sentenced 24 people to death on Monday on murder charges for taking part in a gunfight last year in a dispute over agricultural land in the Nile Delta in which 11 people were killed, court sources said.
The gun battle erupted last March in the northern province of Beheira between two groups of private security men — employed by two rival associations that both claimed title to the land — when one side tried to take the land by force from the other.
As many as 27 people were hurt in the clashes over the 500 acre (200 hectare) plot.
Land disputes are not uncommon in Egypt, where arable land is limited to a thin sliver along the Nile and the river delta in the north. Many absentee landlords hire armed guards to drive out or prevent squatters from settling on the land.