"It is not necessary to get to know us, as we do not seek fame. Our names might not appear in the media unless some media or security bodies tried to defend the honor of belly dancers and naked women or we were arrested on charges of planning to stop dancing and impudence." These words are taken from the statement of the "Army of Virtue", which calls for combating nakedness and impudence on music satellite channels. Praise be to God! We have been actually in need of this electronic army, especially after all regular armies failed to protect virtue. The Army of Virtue has websites to protect honor and blogs training on how to remove impurity. In addition, it spreads through forums, chat and paltalk and launches bloody wars against satellite channels. The war is launched by "Hamasna" website, led by blogger Mohamed Al-Sayyed. He says: "Our army is a non-profit initiative. It includes a group of youths who took up the task of combating whatever calls for nakedness and impudence, especially in light of the growing rise of video clips on satellite channels." The army will combat satellite indecent channels through the website they established for this purpose, so that those channels will change their commercial style and no longer show "naked girls and models". The leaders of this army will contact members of the Egyptian People's Assembly [the lower house of Egypt's parliament) to file "unexaggerated" interpellations and publish documents on its website. The spokesman for the army says: "Our goal is to promote virtue rather than prevent ideas. We are against curtailing ideas and using violence. We reject depriving others of purposeful constructive initiatives. Indeed, we believe that current movies and songs showing nakedness and imprudence are more destructive than movies about making explosives and bombs." He added that the army is not against women's appearance in the media or against "purposeful and constructive" movies and soap opera. "We do not try to ban good songs. We do not call for pop singers wearing galabias. We just want them to represent youths and not to express a culture combining girls' bellies and hysterical movements." The army intends to form groups to combat obscene video clips. It also intends to form "hackers" attacking those who violate virtue. The army's first battle targets a "Lebanese satellite channel" that promotes nakedness and hold belly dance contests. Those bloggers think that all the problems of this country have been solved and that we are only busy with belly dancing. They said the army of virtue in non-profit, as if there were armies that make profits from vice! What about the unexaggerated interpellations? Do they mean they will be light? Why will they file those interpellations for the Egyptian parliament in particular? Is this due to the fact that Egypt has become the center of naked-women broadcast or because it has the "88 M" group – in reference to the Muslim Brotherhood – which will soon form the parliamentary wing of the Army of Virtue? Those bloggers should have formed an army to combat ignorance, poverty and diseases, to establish democracy, fight the violation of personal freedoms and combat unfair ideas. Doing a favor is better than banning a sin.
