A 12 YEAR OLD REVOLUTIONARY My name is Ali Ahmed I am in 1st grade preparatory (equivalent to 12 years old). I am here today to help prevent Egypt from becoming a commodity owned by one person, and to protest the confiscation of the constitution by one party. We didn’t get rid of a military regime to replace it with a fascist theocracy. Q. Fascist theocracy? I don’t even know what it means. A. Fascist theocracy is when you manipulate religion and enforce extremist regulation in the name of religion, even though religion doesn’t command that. Q. Who thought you all this? A. I just know it. Q. How do you know it? A. I listen to people a lot and I use my own brain. Plus, I read newspapers, watch TV, and search in the internet. Q. So you see that the country is not doing well and has to change? A. You mean politically or socially? The social objectives of the revolution are yet to be achieved: economic empowerment, freedom, and social justice. There are still no jobs. The police still jails people randomly. As for social justice, how can a news anchor get 30 million Egyptian pound while some people still pick food from garbage? Politically speaking, where is the constitution that represents us? For example, women are half of the society. How come there are only 7 women in the constituent assembly, 6 of whom are islamists? Q. So you think they are going to manipulate the constitution? A. What is built on falsehood is false itself. Even if the constitution is nice but the assembly that drafted it is bad, we will end up with something bad. Don’t bring me 80 good articles and 20 bad ones, then tell me this is the constitution, that will ruin the country. Q. Did you read the constitution draft? A. Yes. Q. Where? On the internet? A. Yes. For example, they say women are equal to men in all matters except in matters that contradict Islamic law. But then, Islamic law allows men to discipline the wives. This can not work in society. Q. Why not? What is the problem? A. The problem is that it is outrageous. I cant beat my wife up and almost kill her, and then tell you this is discipline. This is not discipline, this is abuse and insanity. All of this (political process) is void, popularly and constitutionally void. Some parties base their campaign on mixing religion and politics, mosques were mobilizing voters. They distributed sugar and cooking oil to the voters, and many other things like that.
Posted on: Sun, 07 Jul 2013 00:29:14 +0000
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