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Monday, 17 Apr 2006
The local media disgusts me. I sat down yesterday trying to see any coverage on any of the national or satelite News channels about the clashes that were occuring yesterday and there was nothing. Zip, Zilch, Nada. No one mentioned it in details, just in passing. Instead our great egyptian TV gave us the Miss Egypt contest, which was really awful, because the girls were FUGLY. Check out the contestents here and weep. The country was very normal, as if nothing happend in Alex at all. On the surface everything was calm in Cairo.
Under the surface was another story all together though. The interior ministry had issued a class C state of emergency (highest level) and sent police troops to every governrate in Egypt, and doubled the ones that were in Alexandria. Wanting to save face internationally, the NDP called in all of their "youth" and sent them all to Alexandria, where they made a 5000 people march of National Unity, with the preuisite muslim guy and christian dude holding a banner that puts the crescent with the cross, as if to say that our national unity was very storng and that nothing bad was going on. They even started chanting "why are you staying here? Go Home!" to the egyptian police forces as if saying there is no situation that requires them there. And in front of the Camera, the police officers mentioned to everybody to leave, because according to this little staged play "There was no need for them there anymore". All is well, we all love each other, and anyone who says different is a person that wants to destroy our national unity and shake the country's stability. Nice, No?
Well, this shit did happen, and it might continue happening today. And since our national and international media don't want to show the images of yesterday's clashes, I will right here. Just because you didn't see it on TV, doesn't mean it didn't happen people. God bless blogs, because the media sucks. There you go!
A Car that was torched in Yesterday's clashes
The Police gathering around another torched car. You can see the Police trucks in the background.
A coptic protester holding a kitchen knife!
Defiance!
Christian Protesters trying to breach the security wall.
The Police shooting live ammo in the air to disperse the muslims and christians from clashing.
Muslim protesters throwing Firebombs and Molotov coktails at the Police.
The Police starts losing it. A christian protester gets held by police in plain cloths.
Police in Plain cloths beating the protester up!
A christian protester running after getting beat up.
A protester arrested by police in plain cloths after getting beat up.
Another protester arrested after getting beat up!
April 17th, 2006 at 9:54 am
SM, I don’t understand so much who is who on the picture and what is happening on them. Could you give more details on them?
April 17th, 2006 at 9:59 am
Ok suzanne, I will!
April 17th, 2006 at 10:17 am
Dear SM,
Unfortunately, for some strange reason, i’m unable to see any of the pictures you upload on your blog…god bless internet cencorship in the UAE.
Anyways, could you please email me the pictures of the Alexandria riots?
Thanks
sherif
April 17th, 2006 at 10:18 am
WOW
It is getting ugly!
keep your head down, SandMonkey,,,,,
April 17th, 2006 at 10:19 am
oh, btw… Can I use these pics in freerepublic.com?
April 17th, 2006 at 10:20 am
Thanks, SM. It is common for the Egyptian police to be present at a demonstration in civilian clothings, while able and allowed to arrest people? Or was this an incident?
April 17th, 2006 at 10:26 am
Posted
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1616308/posts
April 17th, 2006 at 10:33 am
The really tragic thing about all this is that the Copts are the true Egyptians. They are the descendents of the people who built the pyramids and the high civilizations of ancient Egypt. The Muslims are descended from the Arab savages who overran and conquered the country in the name of their bloodthirsty false god “Allah” and the death cult of Islam.
April 17th, 2006 at 10:37 am
James, I may also be wrong but those people were converted to Islam.
LoL
Muslim egyptians are as egyptians as Christian egyptians. This is the case in Iran (persia), Turkey, Syria(Sham), Lebanon(Phoenicia).
Only Saudi peninsula is truly arabic but the rest of the current muslim world was not once ISLAMIC. These people were forced to be muslims
Plz correct me SM, if I am wrong!
April 17th, 2006 at 11:39 am
Since Christians are discriminated against in Egypt, and are not allowed to work government jobs, isn’t it safe to assume that the plain clothed police are in fact Muslims beating Christians?
April 17th, 2006 at 12:32 pm
LoL Winston, even in the arab peninsula, many Muslims were converted to Islam by the force of the sword, like the case of catholics in latin america
April 17th, 2006 at 12:46 pm
When will the last straw break the camel’s back?
April 17th, 2006 at 2:11 pm
[...] Finally, here is a little from the Sandmonkey on how local Egyptian media is dealing: [...]
April 17th, 2006 at 2:11 pm
SM….I’ve also been searching in the media for any decent report on what’s happening in Alexandria - a city I had always assumed was known for its culture and forward-thinking and educational resources and basically 3ilm - but like u said, like I said, like we KNOW….NOTHING.
I have my own ideas of why that is, but can you give us YOUR take on why the media, in Egypt and in the region as a whole, is not giving this incident the coverage that it is owed? And not the incident alone, but the issue in its entirety?
April 17th, 2006 at 2:21 pm
Cindy,
Correction, christians can get government jobs, however they are not allowed to run for presidency or primeminister posts. Here in egypt every unconnceted, poor, salt of the earth Egyptian is a second class citizen deprived of many of the right westerners take for granted. However if you have power, money and connections its different, regardless of what your religion is. The Sawiress family is the most powerful family in Egypt, eventhough they’re copts. Many of egypts prestigious higher class families are coptic.
This is not in defence of the injustices done to worker class copts, but many seem to look at this as if the discriminations are exclusive to the copts alone. In reality it is practiced against the greater bulk of egyptians.
April 17th, 2006 at 2:33 pm
I don’t think that Arabs were converted by force to Islam, usually they were given a choice, read more.
And those people didn’t look high class to me at all…sorry. Obviously somebody who would be so violent is totally an ignorant (Both Muslims and Christians). They look like low lifes who are stuck in Ghettos, even the neighborhood looks cheap.
April 17th, 2006 at 2:35 pm
Oh, and good pictures. Thanks.
April 17th, 2006 at 2:37 pm
Well, I had a look at the Miss Egypt contestants, and I thought they were pretty. I disapprove of beauty contests on principle, but in the case of the Middle East, a televised beauty contest proves that the government is not in the hands of Muslim fundamentalists.
In defence of the Egyptian government/media, it occurs to me that they were worried that the scenes of violence would spark violence in the rest of the country.
April 17th, 2006 at 3:00 pm
… I’m curious who took the pictures?
It just struck me as suddenly odd.. and I don’t know why. Sandy? Do you know who took the pictures?
April 17th, 2006 at 3:29 pm
Canadienne:
What???
We have a picture of the rioting in our local paper, the Edmonton Sun, in western Canada.
I hope you’re not in favour of government censorship to protect the public from themselves. That’s Step 1 toward a totalitarian state. It’s happening in Russia right now as Putin is following his dictatorial instincts.
April 17th, 2006 at 3:38 pm
Set you free…
Not sure who you’re speaking to.. I’ve not seen anyone here in FAVOUR of the silence of the Eygptian media on this…???
The whole point of this has been to speak out in the wake of their deafening silence.
April 17th, 2006 at 3:39 pm
Doh. nevermind. *sigh* too early. I missed her comment entirely.
*beats own head on desk, has more caffine and decides to just go to work*
April 17th, 2006 at 3:39 pm
Oh come on Sam,
These girls are not ‘FUGLY’. Sure, not all are to my taste, but there are several hotties. I’m a Westernized, Jew Zionist and all the other terrible things, but I have disagree with Khomeini when he said that ‘America was the Great Seducer’. Middle Eastern women are. See Deeya.
April 17th, 2006 at 5:48 pm
Not to be trivial or overlook the importance of your news about the irresponsible, negligent media treatment of the bad news in Egypt, but … I looked at the Miss Egypt contestants, and I don’t think they’re ugly at all. They were the standard kind of beauties you normally see in beauty contests, but I have to admit all except one were not exceptional. The contestant in the single b/w photo had the only truly beautiful face, in my opinion. If she wins, she would make Egypt proud. Something wrong with your vision, SM?
April 17th, 2006 at 6:04 pm
Fitzgerald, at Robert Spencer’s Jihad/Dhimmi watch site lists ten reasons the US should cut Egyptian foreign aid:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/011066.php
April 17th, 2006 at 8:45 pm
I guess the dictators of the world reeeely loves the internet. Good job Sam.
Btw; Deeya is norwegian-pakistani.
April 17th, 2006 at 10:08 pm
lets not talk about the rioting or the killing, same old shit.
lets talk about the babes.
do you think i could get one to go out with me if i promised to beat her and keep her in the house?
April 17th, 2006 at 10:22 pm
yeah, I looked at the Miss Egypt contestants & thought they were kinda hot, w/ only about 20% of them qualifying for a rating of “not up to international pageant standards”, but by no means ‘fugly’.
April 17th, 2006 at 11:25 pm
[...] A continuation of the last post….but from The Sandmonkey The local media disgusts me. I sat down yesterday trying to see any coverage on any of the national or satelite News channels about the clashes that were occuring yesterday and there was nothing. Zip, Zilch, Nada. No one mentioned it in details, just in passing. Instead our great egyptian TV gave us the Miss Egypt contest, which was really awful, because the girls were FUGLY. Check out the contestents here and weep. The country was very normal, as if nothing happend in Alex at all. On the surface everything was calm in Cairo. [...]
April 18th, 2006 at 12:42 am
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060417/ap_on_re_mi_ea/egypt_sectarian_violence
“There was a sort of a truce, but this is not the end of the crisis,” Bishop Bemwah Ghali told The Associated Press. “We really need a radical solution that can quell this anger.”
Ghali accused certain Muslims of harassing Copts. “Some mosque imams keep calling us infidels. They should stop that,” he alleged.
A local imam denied the accusation.
“This is irresponsible talk,” said Sheik Ahmed Ibrahim of al-Bukhari mosque, which stands about 150 yards from Saint Maximus.
“The priest should be seeking peace instead of making statements that could lead to a massacre, especially at this time,” Ibrahim told the AP.
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Right, cause this is all the fault of those pesky Coptics who are inciting the Muslims to charge into their churches and stab them. They really should stop all that petty crying when Imam’s call them infidels because it just incites massacres. If they’d just shut up and take it, then everything would be fine, yah?
April 18th, 2006 at 2:28 am
Thanks elengil!
I had the same reaction when I read the stupid ass comment that Imam said!!
What an ass that guy!!!!!
That’s the reality that Copts live in.
April 19th, 2006 at 7:10 am
On the issue of the illustrious SM calling those contestants fugly, all of you have to realize that SM is in Egypt. He has developed very high standards because the women here are smoking hot. Since most of you have never been here there is no way you could know this. I try to stay away from the shopping malls because I will break my neck gawking at these amazing beauties. In fact, I was so impressed that I married one. Anyway, after almost seven years of living in this country I am still not used to it. Those beauty contestants would not hold a candle to half the girls you would see walking through city stars mall in Nasr City on a Thursday night.
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