From the Blog Hide and Seek Ostoghomaya Have you noticed that the Egyptian street has become a dangerous area? And that walking down the streets has become a daily adventure with unpredictable consequences? You face crude bullying, flirting and harassment and rape, dirty looks and stares coming out from brutal eyes, faces that are ready to fight without clear reasons, thieves, pocket knives, bullies and corrupt police officers. The rates of poverty and unemployment have been on the rise. Many have become thugs and idles; then they were dragged to the street life, where they wait for the first victim to take it out on them and to throw their nets on … the chronic and continuous religious speech and the superficial new waves of religiousness do not succeed in containing and solving their economic and social problems. The ruling regime thought the religious flood is the most suitable smoke bomb whose black cloud would contain all the masses and the government would seek refuge from their political evils. Wahhabism marked those masses with the religious manifestations, blind bigotry with no morals at all .. the survival is only to the fittest and the law is not applied. It would be only applied upon those who are weak … the weak get crushed. The value of work has also been destroyed. Those who think that work alone could lead anywhere are the ones who take respectable kinds of drugs or hashish! Fraud, corruption, bribery and bullying are the most realistic ways if you wish to rise to higher levels of Egyptian society. Women walk pretty fast in the streets to avoid risks, they wear the veil in an attempt to seek refuge in God from the Satan of the street and the thugs that can harass them. Imagine how hard it is for a lonely poor woman in Egypt! The impoverished people are weak in a country that is ruled by the Pound! Weak people are easy to have their rights violated, while those who have some money exert efforts to isolate themselves from this society as much as they can. The rich see this society behind the glass of their car, behind the walls of his villa and the walls of the gym. They live in narrow circles of relatively safe areas that do not allow everyone to visit! We always hear those who praise the magnanimity and gallantry of Egyptians, but we think that those people are talking about another country and other people … these things happened in the past.. back when the grasses were green … hearts were white … and when the sea was blue! **translated by Mohamed Abdel Salam BM
