its a good thimk egyptians have tried to take control of their own destiny , but it was long over due and still they have a long way to go, i belive the precident was set by people of pakistan when they made president to go and made a indepenent judiciary.
you cannot have a just system unless you have independent judiciary, and army under full civilian control.

Thank you, Iboo Patel, for taking a shot at contextualizing the momentous events that have taken place in Egypt recently. You present one very positive slice of a history that has been and still is rife with complications.

I have just finished reading Chinua Achebe's "The Education of a British-Protected Child." Of the many insights he presents regarding what it means to be a human being, here is my favorite: "A human is a human because of other humans." He unpacks this Ibo proverb like this: "Our humanity is contingent on the humanity of our fellows. No person or group can be human alone. We rise above the animals together, or not at all. If we learned that lesson even this late in the day, we would have taken a truly millennial step forward."

I suggest that we all make an effort to understand each other's historical experience, read each other's religious texts and secular literature, listen to each other's music, LISTEN TO THE KIDS, and celebrate those events that seem to move us closer to that time when, as Achebe says, "the rendezvous of separate histories will take place in a grand, harmonious concourse." The realization of this possibility will "all depend on whether we have learned to recognize one another's presence and are ready to accord human respect to every people."

So, let's stop throwing mud at each other; stop the killing and raping (as happened in Tahrir Square to so many women). Let's get on with the work of building a human community around the planet.

If we don't do this, who will?

correction:

"The World Youth desperately needs a "RELIGION REVOLUTION" Not a "POLITICAL REVOLUTION", as in Aegypt, Bahrain, Tunisia etc.!

Oppps. EBOO PATEL et al:

iMPORTANT: YOU are Not "ARCHIVE"ing All These Posts. Your Last Archived post was

"Choose Your Owm COMMEMORATION : BY EBOO PATEL | MARCH 11, 2009; 01:42 PM ET | Please see:

http://onfaith.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/panelists/eboo_patel/

Note: That "PREVIOUS" Stuff here is NOt good Enough. Else WE [i] Will Never Blog Here Again. GO to HUFFINGTON POST, the Plagiarizing Site!

PS: And Stop Stealing OUR Writings and Making as if IT's Your Idea. Enough capitalising off our necks! And Stop Kissin the Jordanian's MOnarch's Oss's , aye? Ye know what i [WE] art sayin!

S A R A H M M & UMMAH:

Islam nor a-Muslim/Moslem is NOt the [THIS] World, aka Planet. And

[THIS] World which is Nebula-Built, Not Allah Built [but built by "IT"], aka Space-Ship Earth is NOt all about "ISHLAMi's nor ESAUi's" or even Mr. Muhammad & Abraham or Moses or Jesus or Vyasa or Gautama et al!

Recommendation: All Musloms/Moslems/Muzzlemem (Girls & Boys; Parents & IMAM's too) Must Learn the "CHUMASH" (Yahudi//JU Book, aka JEW Koranlike) and Learn the "GEETA" (Hindu Habibi's Koranlike Book) and Learn the "BIBLE" (aka Judeo-Christian Koranlike Books) and Learn the "KANGYUR" (aka Buddhist Koranlike Books). THEN

and only THEN will the entire ISLAM Ummah//Community//Sangha of Space-Ship Earth be LIBERATED; Both Mental & Spiritual! ELSE

Nothing has nor will ever Change! Ye have Zero//NO RELIGION, forget Compassion!

PS: i [WE] art EX-YAHUDI (JEWlike). So Become an "A-P-O-C-A-L-Y-P-T-A-R-i_A-N" like US [also Ex-Muslims, Ex-Buddhists, Ex-Hindus, Ex-Zoroastrians, Ex-Christians, Ex-Mormons et al]. Think; Apocalyptic Government & Gridarian Democracy.

Save Your Future, Let Go of YE & YO PRE-APOCALYPTARIAN Thinking backed by APATHY (of & in Religion).

Hint: YE DO NOT Have R-E-L-i-G-I-O-N! Yes, Ye & Yo's maybe Hath or can boast MY"BELIEF//BELIEVE" and or MY"FAITH" But That is NOt "MY-RELIGION." To Us Ye art considered INFERIOR, aka a HUMAN but not a HUUMATE (SUPERIOR).

Only An Apocalyptarian knows and have/has genuine RELIGION; not "Faith", Not "Belief", those two Ye & Yo can Keep!

The World Youth desperately needs a "MENTAL REVOLUTION" Not a POLITICAL REv0lution, as in Aegypt, Bahrain, Tunisia etc.! So,

please Tell Ye & Yo Parents To Start STUDYING other peoples (KAFIR, GOYS, DALITH..) Faiths & Belief S-Y-S-T-E-M-S.

Note: RELIGION is impossible to DREAM, nor To WRITE nor to READ about "IT"!

Hint: "IT" is inside YOU & YOU Alone. And "IT" is NOt a "HE" nor a "SHE". Soo, Please Go Spread the TRUTH (opposite MYTH). It's about TIME!

BEHOLD: The "RELIGION of everything, before the SCIENCE Of Everything" is finally [HERE]. Yes!

The "HOlyi COsmic FEelers FAith", a Belief, yet based on TRUTH(opposite MYTH), more than just RELIGION!

"Something To Live For, NOt to Die For"

Never Say [ISLAM] is "MY RELIGION" again.

first of all,i'm sorry but "CLEARTHINKING1" and "IN_IT_WE_TRUST" u believe all the examples that says that Islam is violence and don't believe those who prove that Islam is peace??
we're the Muslims so we know our religion better than anyone and we said thousands of time that terrorists don't express Islam...and we also said thousands of time if u want to know the real Islam or even to know what u r talking about read real books about Islam.
so i think u should give people who disagree with u a chance to talk and prove their point of view..
and second of all,we the Muslim Egyptians won't let or agree to any religious rule on our country so of course we won't let anyone like Muslims brotherhood or anyone rule Egypt.
thanks
and sorry for my bad English..
i'm an Egyptian Muslim

Instead of the constant attempts to promote positive propaganda for islam for the non-muslim audience, Eboo Patel should try to do some REAL WORK on creating a tolerant islamic society.

Sitting here in America and writing platitudes isn't the answer.

THE FACTS are that once secular rulers are removed in muslim-majority nations, the fundamental violence and intolerance surfaces and takes control. For example, look at Iran, Pakistan, Gaza, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Iraq.

All these countries have drifted towards intolerance of the "other" AFTER the secular leaders left.

So Eboo, Egypt is still a secular military dictatorship less than one week after Mubarak. You can do your spin and propaganda right now because the Muslim Brotherhood hasn't instituted Sharia, Jiza tax, and the usual promotion of islam at the expense of the minority populations - YET.

Any student of history knows what defines islam - violence, supremacism, and intolerance. Egypt hasn't changed that, and neither will Eboo's spin.

One of the demonstrators in Tahrir Square shouted, “I have a wife and three children. I earn $100 per month and pay $80 for rent.” This man is not alone. Forty percent of the Egyptian population lives on less than $2 per family per day. Some Egyptians are extremely wealthy. It is this disparity in wealth, especially if the impoverished are convinced that their situation is the result of corruption and injustice, that helplessness explodes into a rebellion. That was what happened with the French Revolution in the 18th Century and what had just happened in Egypt yesterday.

Eboo noted:

"9/11 is no longer the date that defines Islam for the world. January 25 gets that honor now."

Actually, the following defines dishonored Islam for the world:

1a) 179 killed in Mumbai/Bombay, 290 injured

1b) Assassination of Benazir Bhutto and Theo Van Gogh

2) 9/11, 3000 mostly US citizens, 1000’s injured

3) The 24/7 Sunni-Shiite centuries-old blood feud currently being carried out in Iraq, US Troops killed in action, 3,481 and 924 died in non-combat98,691 – 107,707
Iraqi civilians killed as of 11/9/2010, http://www.iraqbodycount.org/ and
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/casualty.pdf

4) Kenya- In Nairobi, about 212 people were killed and an estimated 4000 injured; in Dar es Salaam, the attack killed at least 11 and wounded 85.[2]

5) Bali-in 2002-killing 202 people, 164 of whom were foreign nationals, and 38 Indonesian citizens. A further 209 people were injured.

6) Bali in 2005- Twenty people were killed, and 129 people were injured by three bombers who killed themselves in the attacks.

7) Spain in 2004- killing 191 people and wounding 2,050.

8. UK in 2005- The bombings killed 52 commuters and the four radical Islamic suicide bombers, injured 700.

9) The execution of an eloping couple in Afghanistan on 04/15/2009 by the Taliban.

10) - Afghanistan: US troops 1,116 killed in action, 902 killed in non-combat situations as of 08/10/2010. Over 40,000 Afghan civilians killed due to the dark-age, koranic-driven Taliban acts of horror

11) The killing of 13 citizen soldiers at Ft. Hood by a follower of the koran.

12) 38 Russian citizens killed on March 29, 2010 by Muslim women suicide bombers.

13) The May 28, 2010 attack on a Islamic religious minority in Pakistan, which have left 98 dead,

14) Lockerbie is known internationally as the site where, on 21 December 1988, the wreckage of Pan Am Flight 103 crashed as a result of a terrorist bomb. In the United Kingdom the event is referred to as the Lockerbie disaster, the Lockerbie bombing, or simply Lockerbie. Eleven townspeople were killed in Sherwood Crescent, where the plane's wings and fuel tanks plummeted in a fiery explosion, destroying several houses and leaving a huge crater, with debris causing damage to a number of buildings nearby. The 270 fatalities (259 on the plane, 11 in Lockerbie) were citizens of 21 nations.

15) Followed by the daily suicide and/or roadside and/or mosque bombings every day in the terror world of Islam.

16) Bombs sent from Yemen by followers of the koran which fortunately were discovered before the bombs were detonated.

17) The killing of 58 Christians in a Catholic church in one of the latest acts of horror and terror in Iraq.

18) Moscow airport suicide bombing: 35 dead, 130 injured on January 25, 2011.

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