Please see
One day, if not in my lifetime soon I hope, all Egyptians will forcefully with great emphasis
in below link
the Egypt we all knew, the Egypt that was, the Egypt that should always be.One day, if not in my lifetime soon I hope, all Egyptians will forcefully with great emphasis
express
their
disapproval,
their frustration with the ongoing state of affairs, ongoing that is since 1952. My overriding desire and my
overwhelming
recurring dream is for both the military and the Islamists of Egypt to suffer eternal demise in regards their death grip on the nation state of Egypt, literally and figuratively.
It's important here not to lay all the blame at Nasser's feet. True, Nasser presided during the beginning of Egypt's slide backwards; true, he made no progress in Egypt's politics due mainly for his lack of trust of anyone; true, he started the catastrophic tradition of military autocracy in lieu of ushering in constitutional governing; true, he surrounded himself with inept, opportunistic and corrupt men, men who were
utterly unqualified to run a government
,
let alone a nation
, men who had little, if any, inclination to right what was wrong and develop the country
...But, asAnthony Nutting, who knew Nasser personally, puts it in his 1972 book Nasser, "Abdel Nasser was a remarkable man. His contribution to Egypt has guaranteed him a place in history. He gave a sense of dignity and national pride to a people who had known little but humiliation and oppression for two and a half thousand years, and his achievement transformed a nation of backward, down-trodden peasants, ruled by a corrupt and alien tyrant and occupied by a foreign army, into a community of independent citizens with a stake in their own soil. He planted the seeds of a modern industrial society." Moreover, in addressing the various developments achieved early on in the 1952 revolution, including the industrialization and education programs,Nutting correctly points out that "For all of these developments a great deal of credit is due to Nasser himself.....But equally Nasser must take the blame for the fact that the social and economic advances made under his leadership were not accompanied by any comparable progress in the political sphere."
Nasser has been gone for over 45 years now. What excuse do the myriad of rulers who took Nasser's mantle have? What do they have to show for their efforts? They certainly could have taken what he set in motion, reformed as needed, adjusted the course of actions as required and had Egypt today in a state even better than before 1952. We now know that that did not happen, not in the least.
However, as
Mustafa Kamil
said "la ya's ma' al-hayati wa la hayati ma' al-ya's, (there is no despair with life, and no life with despair).
"
Egypt, with its history, geography, resources and most importantly its people could have had it all, and still should have it all.
I now will leave you to check the link, but before I do here's another Mustafa Kamil quote that resonates deeply and thoroughly with me
"If I weren't an Egyptian, I would have wished to be an Egyptian."
Hussein
Nature, what wonder, what cosmic awe, what precise laws, such harmony in its beauty and complexity, an endless experiment, we understand some of this "ultimate divine", we may never comprehend all, we should never stop trying. me
