“A revolution that nobody in the world have anticipated “

This is truly a whole people’s revolution, one that nobody in the whole world would have anticipated. A lot of people, including myself, have long believed in the greatness of Egyptian people, despite everything. But we never thought that the revolution will come to pass in such a great way.

When it started on Tuesday January 25, no one predicted that it will continue. Until a giant leap happened, Friday, when protestors joined Tahrir, people assembled from all Cairo heading to Tahrir Square. Parallel protests started in Suez, Ismailia, Alexandria and most Egyptian governorates as a continuation to the millions protesting. In reaction to such revolution victory, the regime started consenting. However, such consents are slow and always late.

This revolution shall continue by God’s will until the president leaves, followed by the change in the regime. Despite the fact that the revolution is yet to be complete, and all of the regime’s fatal attempts to abort it, the revolution has already succeeded in attaining the following:

Abolishing of all sorts of sectarian violence and harassment. The regaining of the true kind and peaceful nature of Egyptian people which was evident in the national committees that were organized to protect residential areas and houses of Egypt.

The sympathy of people. The fact that two million protestors gathered in a small place where there was no frictions between people, the young people who went down are a great generation, and much better than our own. We apologize and we are thankful for they were the ones who encouraged all segments of Egyptian Society to participate (senior citizens, rich, poor, illiterate, workers) like what happened on Tuesday.

We’ve long envied “million marches” before, but now we have our own. It’s the greatest. The people have suffered a lot and will not back off now. However, with every attempt by the regime, it reveals its ugly face, even uglier than before, as manifested in the thugs the regime rented to attack the protesters, while the army was an accomplice as it did not intervene to end the violence between protesters and thugs except after five hours or so.

The army allowed the thugs in, allowed people on camels and horses to get in though they were in sight 18 kilometres before Tahrir Square. The army, the police heads, the media heads of Nile satellite and Egyptian National Television are all part of the president’s regime. And they will all fall as the president leaves.  This revolution shall be marked in the history of humanity as a true people’s revolution, only equivalent to the French revolution 200 years ago. And the past ten days have shaken the world.

Hassan Haddad

“Those who summoned the jinni should know how to dismiss it.”

I have been living here (Rehab city) for the past nine years.

The idea of creating a neighborhood watch came to us when we read the (false) news on television saying that Rehab city has been invaded by thugs. Watching from our balconies, we noticed how worried we all were. We all gathered downstairs and decided to protect the whole district.

When we knew that no looting or thugs have reached Rehab city yet, we started forming human shields, using kitchen knives, any licensed rifles. There are lots of senior citizens, so we decided to protect them. The young residents of Rehab managed to organize themselves. They have established their own badge, shifts, signal and emergency plan.

I believe that the government and Mubarak are to blame. Those who protested on 25 January are all respectable youth and the protest was a peaceful one and we were expecting that somebody would talk to us, answer us. But nobody did. Those who summoned the jinni should know how to dismiss it.

By the jinni, I mean the thugs that the government counted on to forge the elections and again used them to destroy the country. We destroyed nothing, on the contrary we really suffered to be able to live here, or buy a car. We are all here to help each other, there is no “I” there is “Us” and this is the best thing we have reached today.

Ahmed Abu Ouf

“Those pro-Mubarak, where were they eight days ago?”

Those pro-Mubarak, where were they eight days ago? And how come they enter the premises of the protesters against the Mubarak regime in Tahrir Square, this is not a natural thing at all. They are for sure not from the Egyptian people. How come they suddenly discovered their love for Mubarak. This is not true. They are people from the regime. As for those online, the first thing they say is “please stop sabotage” as if the protesters who first came out are responsible for all the disruption. That they are the reason that work has stopped and all that. And the answer is that it’s not us, it’s the regime who has a motive in doing all the destruction and looting. I joined the Tuesday (1 February) protests in Tahrir Square. We were two million, if not more. There were neither acts of destruction, harassment or anything of that sort. There were women, children and senior citizens. No damages happened until those who are said to be pro-Mubarak entered the square on Wednesday. And this is a proof that the demonstrations against Mubarak were peaceful and have nothing to do with the disruption in the country

May Haddad 18

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