Salaam Akhi, I find myself in total agreement with you 99.9% of the time on any group we are in together - but on this one I cannot. I have never been through a revolution. I will simply have to trust your judgment on this one! Believe me it /feels/ like time for a revolution here in the US!
I want to move to the UK really badly though. That might help. :-) Wasalaam A. Moussa wrote: > > /I hate the current Egyptian regime so much and wish it goes to Hell > the very next moment but the experience of the Egyptian revolution of > 1952 taught me that violence will not bring any good. The bitter long > way of peaceful resistance is much better than the short violent one. > In spite of the pretty clever Satanic ways the regime frames its > enemies into false legal cases that seem to block the way of any > change but still I prefer a legal change./ > > / I hate revolutions./ > > / / > > / / > > / / > > / / > > /Re: [AmeriConscience] Ripe for revolution / > > / / > > /Alan,/ > > / / > > /You and Soumaya Ghannoushi are very right that Egypt is sinking into > a death spiral, but the Egyptian economy has defied Western analysis > for a long time. Egyptians are fond of quoting some German economist > who came to Egypt, studied it, and said it shouldn't function. / > > / / > > /But it does. / > > / / > > /Whether or not it will ever explode like Iran did in 1979 is > impossible to say. I really am not close enough to know, and if I > did, I wouldn't tell. I'm sure the MB is pretty mad about what has > happened in Gaza... > > --- On *Fri, 2/13/09, maki_alan */*<maki_a...@...>* wrote: > > /From: maki_alan <maki_a...@...> > Subject: [AmeriConscience] Ripe for revolution > To: [email protected] > Date: Friday, February 13, 2009, 10:53 PM/ > > /I found this article very interesting and thought I would share it. > > Link: http://www.guardian .co.uk/commentis free/2009/ feb/13/iran- > <http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/13/iran-> > revolution-soumaya- ghannoushi > > Ripe for revolution > > A blinkered west has created conditions in the Middle East that > mirror those of late 1970s Iran > Comments (114) > > * Soumaya Ghannoushi > * > o Soumaya Ghannoushi > o The Guardian, Friday 13 February 2009 > o Article history > > Thirty years ago the world awoke to a great volcanic eruption in Iran > that transformed the country's face and sent tremors across the > globe. A mass movement of popular protest had succeeded in doing what > few had thought possible. The Shah's heavily fortified regime was no > more - a mere chapter in the country's long past. > > For all the religious euphoria that has marked the revolution, its > root causes are in reality more sociopolitical than theological. > After all, theology cannot create revolution if its conditions are > not seething in society's gut and within its political forces. The > vast wells of popular anger that erupted at the end of the 1970s were > fed by grievances that had been building for years. At the forefront > of these was the corruption and despotism of the Shah and his regime; > the widening circle of sociocultural marginalisation, fuelled by > pseudo-modernisatio n; and the regime's acquiescence to foreign > interventions, particularly from the US. > > There is much about this pre-revolutionary Iranian scene that would > appear familiar to the observer of the wider Middle East today. While > the region's modern history has been mired in a string of crises > associated with a fragile post-colonial state, its ills have been > further aggravated by the erosion of legitimacy that has accompanied > the last few decades. Its first source - national liberation - faded > with the departure of the independence generation, and the rise to > power of a new breed of colourless technocrats and generals. > > And as the promises of development and progress vanished into the > smoke of the shanty towns, the Arab state lost its last refuge from > its citizens. Stripped of all cover, it degenerated into a terrifying > oppression machine. The more depleted its legitimacy, the greater it > relied on the police, internal intelligence apparatuses, and on the > support of foreign patrons - much like the Shah. Most Arab regimes > would not survive without the perpetual use of violence against their > citizens and opponents - aided and abetted by their "friends" and > allies. > > Egypt may represent the clearest manifestation of this state of > affairs. For the last decade, its 80-year-old president has been > preoccupied with ensuring the accession of his son, Gamal, to the > throne of the republic. In the meantime, his country, the most > populous in the Arab world, sinks deeper into degeneracy, with > receding regional influence, rampant corruption, and millions > teetering on the verge of starvation. > > What we have before us is a deadly recipe for explosion. By the > 1990s, with the collapse of communism and Bush Sr's attack on Iraq, > most Arab regimes had reached their sell-by date. Thanks to > their "business as usual" Euro-American allies, their expired lives > were extended. But one cannot see how they can escape mortality much > longer, amid a sea of crises and surging popular anger. > > Of course, this is not to say that the Iranian scenario will be > replicated in Egypt - or other Arab countries - or that another > Khomeini will soon emerge. History does not repeat itself. What is > doubtless though is that many components of the Iranian dynamite are > today raging beneath the surface of imposed "stability", especially > as new sociopolitical forces are entering the stage on the ruins of > the discredited official elite. > > Four months before the Shah was forced to flee, the CIA issued a > report describing his regime as stable. The shah, it predicted, "is > expected to remain actively in power over the next ten years". Things > haven't changed much since. The same state of wilful oblivion is > still in play. Blinded by short-term interests, western governments > insist on seeing things in the region as they want, not as they are. > In truth, they are the real makers of revolution in the Middle East. > > ? Soumaya Ghannoushi's book on the directions of political Islam will > be published later this year/ > > / > > / > > / / > > > > -- Linda *http://freedetainees.org <http://freedetainees.org/> "If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did appear..." - William Shakespeare * --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bangla-vision" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bangla-vision?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
