I just listened to a live interview on Al Jazeera English with a 23-year-old woman in Tahrir Square. The pro-Mubarak forces are apparently pounding the anti-Mubarak demonstators in the Square with gunfire this night.
The Al-Jazeera host asked why she and other demonstrators refused to accept Mubarak’s promise to hold elections.
Salma Al-tasi replied: “We do not trust a government that sends thugs to kill us.”
She has more sense than the vast majority of modern political philosophers. And she has more gumption than the vast majority of American political commentators.
(I am guessing at the spelling of her name. If anyone knows the correct spelling [the interview concluded at 4:32 a.m. Egyptian time], please advise and I’ll correct it.]
Salma Al-tasi replied: “We do not trust a government that sends thugs to kill us.”
Didn’t some bunch of yahoos on this continent say pretty much the same thing, back in the 18th century?
Oh the plush poetic humor of watching our politicians issue hedged proclamations on the fate of our Most Favored Authoritarian. This is Egypt’s challenge and is only ours because we never quite satisfied ourselves with our own nation. For some foolhardy reason, we began to think the American Way was concerned with everywhere else but…gooooolllllllly! …America.
I heard that Obama announced that he is “praying for peace” in Egypt.
After he gave the Egyptian govt. billions of dollars to repress the Egyptian people?
What a load….
Once those ladies get rid of the burka crap and stand up for themselves… boy howdy, things will start to pop for sure.
I was so proud of her, both as a human being and as a woman. We can only guess at what she has endured and it gives me great hope to know that such spirits bloom even in the dung heap of repression.
Are the MSNBC commentators calling her a “crazy anti-government whacko” yet?
Alpowolf, that’s a great quip!
MamaLiberty, there have been many Egyptians interviewed on AJ this week who sounded very courageous.
Not like going to a reception inside the Beltway.