Saturday, June 24, 2006

The witch hunt started on the Egyptian bloggers "Sauron Vs. The Hobbits"

Alaa is released with the rest of those who were arrested on the last month '26 and 27 in solidarity with the Egyptian judges ; of course Alaa was the special one as he is considered the Godfather of the Egyptian blogsphere , and it is enough the noise that we proudly the Egyptian bloggers made to let the whole world see the Mubarak regime's real face and oh boy we did it and suddenly the investigation bureau of National security in the interior ministry found itself dealing with another kind of enemy , or so called enemy US

There are news now suffering the blogsphere that the Blogs now are under surveillance which is a very old news , people this surveillance was always there since El-Dostor weekly newspaper introduced us to the Egyptian Street , our number then I remember didn't cross the 500 , now that to the publicity we are more than 1000

Already the hunt against us started when TE data an ISP company owned by Telecom Egypt the main telecommunication company owned by ministry of Communication and Link dot Net owned by Billionaire Naguib Sawoiras decided to block important blog sites like Manal and Alaa and blogger.com , well I can understand Link dot Net 's act against the blogging service of blogger.com as it is powered by Google while Link dot Net is the golden Partner of Microsoft in the Middle East and they have the franchise of MSN Arabia !!! "thank God I didn't work in it , I had the chance !!". Not that only if you are tried to go in these blacklisted sites in Egypt from these ISPS ,they will track you down unless you got a good firewall "Vista , the coming new OS got an excellent firewall system and Microsoft said that there will be no back door for governments to hack in people's PCs , this was announced after the refusal of the software giant to give the back door code to the British Police !!"

Yet our fans in the Egyptian street and our dear Bloggers didn't give up easily they used the proxy methods !! Do not mess with Egyptians ,especially the young generation who listen to both Amr Khalid and Nancy Agram !!Untitled - 6.gif

Then came the Arresting rush , from Malak to Alaa ended by the barbaric sexual abuse of Sharakawy , the common factor between those guys beside being in Kafya and Youth for Change opposition organisation is that they are all bloggers ,famous bloggers too . Yes they were not arrested because of blogging , there is nothing against blogging in the Egyptian laws despite they are trying to make something fit to the new phenomena from the new rumours laws check my post , they were arrested because of illegal demonstration and insulting the president !! Well that's what they say , partially it is true but when it comes to our dear Alaa who celebrated the president's birthday on his way ,it can make sense that some body is watching you , the big brother is watching your blog !!

As I said the real power came with the Arrest of Alaa when the security forces found them with the new enemies ,unknown INTERNET junkies who write hours and hours over the INTERNET in their blogs and international newspapers ,magazines and TV channels considered them the new face of opposition , Al-jazeera made a documentary I talked about before and Le Liberation in France made an article about us and called Hieroblogs and this name I love it it comes from hieroglyphic "by the way Je suis in that article :) I became famous internationally now baby ,Thank God "

And not to mention the internal support from El-Dostor and Sowat El-Oma , people began to hear about us especially and even the governmental media began to spot light us , "Logat El-Asr" The Ahram's IT monthly magazine made a report about us , a neutral surprisingly one and "Akhbar El-Hoadas"the weekly Akhbar El-Youm 's specialised crime newspaper attacked us when some copts who live abroad made a blog with the Egyptian Copt flag as if all Egyptian bloggers support this. Also "El-ain" Tabloid weekly newspaper which is published by the same publisher of El-Dostor and Sowat El-Oma attacked us so much and called us a bunch of ridiculous guys who think to know everything and that they don't respect anything , making us either infidels and extremists and that came with Abd El-Karim 's arrest in the events of Alexandria last year !!!

But that was n't enough the regime began to feel our danger , the so-called danger , there is no danger except if you consider us the Hobbits of the shire and the regime is the Lord of the ring , OK bad example if you consider us as another face of people's anger , the common factor in all Egyptian blogs with all its differences ,and its huge from Political to religion to ideological to what so ever , yet they agreed on damn thing they hate this regime and they want to have a better country ,some wanted secularism ,some wanted religious and some like me wanted neither and wanted Egypt , the real Egypt , the old Egypt we used to have before 1952. Most of the Egyptian bloggers are less than 30 years and yet they speak in the forbidden topic of Politics , most of our blogs are political , and this is disturbing , very disturbing ,

Now the last the two weeks the government unleashed its witch hunt on us in the media , the first one when Mr. Karam Gabr , the chief in Editor of Rosa El-Youssef magazine ,a governmental magazine also a daily newspaper which turned in to one of Egypt's greatest government speakers , attacked us and described us as street kids and our blogging talents as the journalism of streets !! I won't answer back or comment except that Mr. Gabr is a muslim , enlightened one as he claims in the Egyptian national television seemed to me to forget that real Muslims don't insult the street kids , in fact it is a sin for all of us to ignore the misery of those lost kids !! At least show them some sympathy Mr.Gabr !!

Last Monday Rola Kharasa ,the famous News reporter made a report on the concert the Egyptian bloggers organised in the Journalism syndication in solidarity with the detainees then she hosted some experts in media to discuss the blogging phenomena ,the pros and Cons , unfortunately I didn't see the program ,but I know personally Kharasa as she is the daughter of my late Grand father's friend Mr.Mustafa Kharasa may God bless their souls and I remember that my Grand dad appeared in one of her documentaries as far as I remember it was about Israel ,yes My grand dad had many interviews in TV and radio :) . Rola is excellent news reporter but she is married to one hell of hypocrite plus she is working in the national Television , so I can't expect credibility from her not because she is bad government ass kisser but because of the constrains

The follow bloggers who saw it attacked the media experts who attacked us and described as lies and rumour spreaders and producers !!Well of course she didn't mention Alaa but his site with Manal appeared

Wael Abbas the journalist blogger who owns Egypt Digital e-newspaper which is a blog in the first , appeared but of course they didn't show his site , He and other say that it is a good thing , let the people see and hear us , people are intelligent

Yes People are intelligent and yes thank to the Government "Thank you very much " treating us in this way will make more people support and join us , simply People trust more those are against government , those who are attacked day and night by the government's speakers

anyway as i said before we must take care , our Egyptian blogshpere is in danger ,severe danger and don't count on the west or anyone ,Count on the Egyptian street and as I said above the security forces in Egypt began to consider us the enemy , we are not their enemy , we are part of their enemy , the real enemy is in the street ,the Egyptian street which can't take it any more from pressure , we are considered one of its ways to communicate , an advanced way for the middle and high class but the rest of the street is from the low class the majority which extends from Rosetta to Aswan . We can be considered to be real enemies if stop writing and blogging and go to the streets . I don't know we are not their enemies nor really they are to us , we should n't be enemies , simply because if they claim to protect and care for this country ,we too believe in the same thing and want it , they are the one who made us their enemies

Egyptian Bloggers be Classy and don't give any one the opportunity to pick on you

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