Egypt's Civil Rights and its non-War on Terrorism.

[Hafiz]

I’m back because nothing has changed in Egypt. Still the same old tosh and double dealing parading as good government. In this case about civil rights and terrorism, not issues most would put together.

There has been a recent kerfuffle where the Government of Egypt reacted negatively to those pesky EU types who had the temerity to make negative comments about Egypt’s crackdown, death penalties, and sexual abuse of women in detention etc. The list of abuses could go to hell and back. The fact that you have order doesn’t mean that you have law. Egypt is a good example of this.

Far from taking his purgative the esteemed and all mighty Minister launched into an utterly irrelevant tirade about how Egypt was holding the line against terrorism. Really, are they holding the line?

As if Egypt’s assistance in the war on terror was helped by its abuse of its own people. Or to put it another way, these abuses could stop without there being any benefit to the terrorists.

Maybe a bit more law in Egypt might lead to a bit more order.

Egypt’s claimed credentials on the current terrorist problem are garbage and the Minister, were he not posturing, would know this. Still a good spray and mentioning terrorism is a bit like a pea and thimble trick. It works a lot of the time because it confuses the punters.

The facts are different and Egypt’s contribution to the wider ‘war’ on terrorism is zero.

Egypt, and its million-man army, won’t be going to Iraq to wipe out IS/ISIL/LISL. Its friend Saudi with its quarter million man army ($52b per year – twice Australia’s) will contribute nothing: nor will Turkey. No gulf Emirs and Sheiks will slide from their harems to defend themselves from this rapidly expanding evil threat to their very existence.

Only the Great Satan and a few impecunious mates, none of whom live in the region, will have to do the killing and pay the costs.

Some say that these Sunni countries have real problems in raising a gun against fellow Sunni’s. Its true that some face domestic resistance, as in the case of Saudi which has large numbers of its own docile fundamentalists who have funded this evil. Sounds like the Saudi funding and personnel of al Qaeda all over again.

This whole ISIL situation is full of lies but the biggest lie is that those who face immediate threat, like Egypt, are doing something about it. Another lie is that Egypt is defeating its own small number of terrorists in Sinai. One reason for this is that the army is incompetent and poorly led. Some evidence for this is the suspiciously large number of conscript deaths and small numbers of officer and professional army casualties. Maybe the professional Egyptian army won't or can't fight - a bit like the Iraq army.

On a related point about Sunni 'scruples', the BBC World Service reported that after the first beheading not a single Middle East or North African country publicly condemned it. So much for a war on terrorism where not even a bit of wind coming from a Minister's orifice is too much effort.

The Minister’s rants and faulty logic are at that old hag and Aunt Sally http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent ... ateme.aspx

After this bile I feel better.

[LovelyLadyLux]

One would think that what happened to Kuwait when Saddam decided he wanted it would give 'em, the more harem oriented and decadent types, something to think about and make 'em a bit uncomfortable ....... no?
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***Nice to see you back and commenting Hafiz

[Glyphdoctor]

Egypt's English press and Arabic press tell two totally different stories. Read the Arabic press or watch the media and you will hear about how we have been at war for more than a year now, and not a war on terror, but just a plain old war. They just don't want to scare off the tourists by using that language with them.

[LovelyLadyLux]

The Saudi students are quite able to graphically elaborate many incidents and just plain old atrocities that us in the west have never had reported in our media.