Until a few years ago, the Egyptians used to respect the dead and rejected to talk about women's honor. When someone talked about a girl or a woman, even if everybody knew she was a prostitute, the answer was always “God is the Forbearing One and covers people's bad deeds” and “may God protect our ladies' honor”. And when someone talked about the dead, the answer was always “remember the dead people by their good deeds”. Nowadays the society violates everything and no one cares about women's honor and the dead. Some blame the press and the media. But I think the society is also involved after it has become hungry for details, stories and tales it previously saw as disgusting. What have Heba and Nadin done to be material for all this talk and rumors even if these rumors are true? Is their fault that Heba's mother is a famous singer? Is their fault that they belong to a rich social class? What does the society gain from repeating and circulating such imaginary stories? Does the society want to bring them to book while they have already passed away? The society has turned into a group of hangmen who can no longer differentiate between privacy and the right to know. The society has killed Heba and Nadin more than once after they were killed. Instead of showing sympathy for them, the society has kept cutting their dead bodies without any deterrent from human conscience or social traditions. The strange thing is that the society refused the idea of having the killer identified without some dramatic additives. The society seems to be informed by the media that the crime should have stories and scandals behind, so it rejected the idea that the stealer was the killer. Amid all this, though, everybody forgot that the protagonists of this story are two girls rather than two stars. There is no doubt that the Egyptian society's values are no longer the same. Everything has become permissible and nobody wonders: "What if Heba and Nadin were my sisters or daughters? Could I accept this?" The society always wants scandals. Indeed, it wants to choose the kind of scandal to expose. It refuses to consider the incident as mere attempted robbery and it insists on completing the imaginary scenario based on its own imagination. Heba and Nadin have revealed a horrible social crisis for which, as usual, we can blame the government. What is better, though, is to let psycho-sociologists search for the reasons behind such social hunger for scandals and behind the collapse of values and traditions. Finally, we should all apologize to Heba's and Nadin's families and pray for them to rest in peace.
