CAIRO - "If I were to die, I would like to have my corpse wrapped in the Egyptian flag, my funeral launched from Tahrir Square and my corneas given to two of the injured young people of the revolution and, if possible, my limbs donated to those who lost theirs in the revolutionary events." This is the last will and testament that the innocent 15-year-old Anas Mohie-Eddin wrote on his Facebook page shortly before heading to the coastal and Suez Canal city of Port Said to watch the soccer match between his favourite team Al-Ahly (of Cairo) and the home team of Al-Masry. Despite his young age, Anas, like most Ultra members, had always been there in all events of the revolution, which experience had left its magnificent reflection on his innocent soul. It had turned him from a mere enthusiastic soccer fan to a teenager ready to sacrifice his life for his country and to have his organs donated to his brothers and sisters who suffered injury while waging their great revolution on injustice, tyranny and corruption. To all those who suffer despair or doubt about our revolution's fate, I ask them to read and re-read the will of Anas to realise how strong and persistent those young people are and how they are resolved to go on with their revolution to achieve its goals. Anyone, who contemplates the words of Anas and his smiling face, is assured that such innocent and noble young people are much stronger than all the armed machinery of the Ministry of the Interior and the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces along with their thugs. These thugs are ready to shed the blood of their brothers for a few pounds, which will not even enable them to meet their food needs for a single month. The name of the 15-year-old Anas will live on much longer than all the officials who are trying to abort the revolution and continuing to refer to its heroes as thugs and rioters. The heroes of the revolution will be remembered by generations to come for the great sacrifice that they paid to end the dark stage of one-man rule in Egypt and other Arab countries for good. With a husky voice, the father of another victim, a faculty of engineering student, declared that he will live with one single aim, that is to obtain the rights of the martyrs. The senior surgeon said on a satellite TV channel programme that he has never participated in a demonstration nor shown any interest in politics. But, after losing his son in this barbaric way, he will devote what is left of his life to getting rights of the martyrs and bringing the perpetrators of their deaths to justice. "My son and his peers liberated us from long years of fear. I have no other aim in life after losing him than to obtain their rights from those that plotted against their lives." On the same programme, another father speaking for poor and uneducated people made another live phone call in which he wondered what had caused some persons to commit such a crime against a soccer fan. He asked: "What can I do now after losing my only son, the breadwinner of the family? I am a disabled person whose pension does not exceed LE450 [a month]. However, I have never sought help from the Government or any one. I only relied on my son to live and have my medication." The grieving and indignant father continued: "What hurts me a lot is the way I found my son's corpse at the hospital being thrown on the floor in a black sack with a small paper given to me as permission for burial without any certificate indicating the cause of death. Is this how they should treat a dead person? Is it because of our poverty that they are treating us in this humiliating way?" What is really disgusting is to see some irresponsible persons refuse to acknowledge the victims of the Port Said Stadium massacre and even accuse them of practising a kind of entertainment religiously unlawful (haram) for Muslims! Abdel-Moneim el-Shahat, a parliamentary candidate that lost in the elections in Alexandria because of his extremism, has thus continued to express his shocking 'fatwas' (religious edicts) pertaining to different issues. He said that a football game is prohibited, as Islam does not know it and the Prophet Mohamed (PBUH), when he encouraged young people to practise sport, had not included football or other such games! In addition, he claimed that those who were murdered while watching a sports event could not be considered as martyrs similar to those who die while fighting in the cause of Allah. Fortunately, some noted Muslim scholars including the former Mufti of the Republic Nasr Farid Wasel promptly refuted el-Shahat's offensive opinion, affirming that any one unlawfully murdered by others is considered a martyr in Islam. It is apparent that it is not Wasel or el-Shahaat or any other human being that will give those noble souls the position of martyrs in Heaven but it is their Creator who knows what injustice and betrayal they were subjected to in their life. But what is worse than their deaths is their subsequent betrayal with some people trying cold-bloodedly to judge their deeds and see if they deserve to go to Heaven or to be punished in Hell. Fortunately, such persons are very few and the majority of people feel real sadness and bitterness at the tragic incident of Port Said and the previous and successive events that continue to claim the lives of young Egyptians.
