Thursday - July 05, 2012

Springtime for Egypt ?

The article has been edited for space but to be fair, if that’s possible considering who we’re talking about here, it’s reported that hundreds of muslims have protested the killers in this story and are seriously worried about the secular future in Egypt.
This kinda follows Drew’s post on the subject last week.

Apparently there is genuine outrage so that could be read as hopeful. ???  Yes?  Like, it ain’t all of them wants to do us in.  Just a million or so who do. Which is reassuring.  Right?

Arab Spring my achin’ butt.  I’m no expert and it would actually be great to be wrong here but; I think given time the radicals will take over. Mubarak knew how to keep the vermin at bay. He was our guy and suddenly he wasn’t and so now, welcome to the caliphate.

‘Moral vigilantes’ stab Egyptian university student to death for ‘walking next to his fiancee’

* Ahmed Hussein Eid was attacked by three men who deemed it violated good Islamic practice for him to walk alongside his fiancee

* An Islamist vigilante organisation called Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice Authority have taken responsibility for the attack

* Women’s rights organisations report of harassment of non-veil wearing women and gender separated buses

By SARA MALM

A university student was stabbed to death after argument with religious vigilantes who attacked him for walking with his fiancee.
Three bearded men approached Ahmed Hussein Eid and his partner when they were walking in a park in Suez, Egypt and demanded they go their separate ways because they were not married, security officials said.

An argument broke out which ended with one of the men fatally stabbing the engineering student in his left thigh. He was taken to Ismailia University Hospital but later died of his injuries.

A group calling themselves ‘Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice Authority’ posted on Facebook that they were responsible for the murder.
The entry read that the young man had been standing with a woman and had been adviced not to do so, Egypt Independent reported.

The post on the page of the organisation, which is a vigilante religious police seeking out those whom they deem to be violating Sharia, said the student insulted them which is why they attacked him with a knife.
The June 25 attack has alarmed Egyptians concerned that with an Islamist president in office, vigilante groups are feeling emboldened to enforce strict Islamic mores on the streets.

The attack happened in a quiet park which is a favorite spot for young couples in Suez, according to security officials.
It has not been specified what enraged the three men, who arrived at the scene on a motorbike, but the initial testimony of the girlfriend said the men told the couple they should not be together because they were not married and must immediately leave and go their separate ways.

An argument followed and one of the three men stabbed 20-year-old Eid in the upper left thigh, near his genitals.
Suez has a strong Islamist movement and voted heavily in favor of Mohamed Morsi in the June 16-17 presidential runoff against Ahmed Shafiq,the last prime minister to serve under Mubarak.

The killing took place one day after Morsi was declared the winner.
Suez Islamic groups have denied their involvement in the attack and the leading party Muslim Brotherhood has condemned it.
The spokesperson for the Muslim Brotherhood, Mahmud Ghazlan, said: ‘We condemn these acts, for they have nothing to do with Islam and we repudiate them and their perpetrator’

However, secular activists say Islamists are trying to impose their will on communities outside Cairo.
Moderate Muslims along with liberal and women’s groups now worry that Mohammed Morsi’s presidency will eradicate what is left of Egypt’s secular traditions and change the social fabric of the mainly Muslim nation.

Some activists say Islamists already are flexing their muscles in areas outside Cairo and other main cities, taking advantage of the absence of civil society groups and lack of security in the areas.

They cite reports of efforts to persuade drivers of communal minibuses to segregate male and female passengers and women’s hairdressing salons being told to get rid of male employees or close.

Fully veiled women are also harassing women not wearing a veil or wearing colorful ones while traveling on the women-only train cars of Cairo’s busy subway, according to activists monitoring women’s rights.

Egypt has for more than 40 years been preoccupied with dealing with the threat posed by radicals seeking to create an Islamic state in the country.
Mubarak, backed by the U.S., used that threat to maintain tight control over the country.

Morsi, 60, has not mentioned implementing Islam’s Shariah law since he narrowly won the presidential race but civil rights activists and secular groups fear the Brotherhood and its allies are closer than ever to realising the dream of an Islamic government in Egypt and are looking to Morsi to make it happen.

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Posted by peiper     on 07/05/2012 at 10:42 AM   
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