We finally have become united, one people, not divided on the basis of sex, religion or other, all demanding the departure of Mubarak and his trial and his men in the party and the government for the bloodshed that took place on Wednesday 2nd of Feb and everyday since the 25th of January, trial for the corruption and tyranny over the past thirty years of Mubarak`s rule. (...)
I live with the young men and women day and night. They formed committees: to sweep the square, to transport the injured to hospitals, to provide food and medicines, to take over the defense of the square and the protection of the protesters and respond to the lies of the regime and propaganda promoted by the state media, to nominate the names of the Transitional Government and the Committee of Wise Men, and others. The wall of the institutions and taboos which distinguishes between citizens, whether women or men, Muslim or Christian or other, faded. (...)
Young men and women spontaneously took to the streets, left their houses, self-driven and protecting themselves, after the police and security officers failed and pulled out. The elite controlling media and cultural life was overthrown, the Wise Men committee which is approaching the pinnacle of wealth and power, and opportunist party leaders, who backed the ruling regime, secretly and publicly over the past half century. Opportunism and double standard moral values collapsed after corrupting the State, the family and individuals. After causing chaos in the name of security, dictatorship in the name of democracy, poverty and unemployment in the name of development and prosperity, and prostitution and adultery in the name of morality and freedom of choice. Humiliation and submissive compliance with the American-Israeli imperialism in the name of aid and partnership, friendship or the peace process, and the imprisonment of real, creative and authentic writers and journalists inside cells or isolating them and tarnishing their reputation or discrediting and exiling them whether at home or abroad. (...)
While I was walking in the square, people from all political currents and ideologies came to me, talking to me with open arms, saying: “Dr. Nawal, we are the new generations that have read your books and were inspired by your creativity, rebellion and revolutions.”
I suppressed my tears and told them, “This is such a gala for all of us, for all of us, the festival of freedom, dignity, justice, creativity and rebellion.”
A young woman called Rania Refaat said, “We demand a new civil constitution that does not differentiate between people on the basis of religion, sex, creed, race or other,” and another young Christian man named Boutros Dawood said, “we want a new civil unified law for personal status for all people without discrimination on the basis of religion, sex or creed or sect.”
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