people are dying, I am begging you all to make du3a not just for my family but to all the Muslims there.. la 7wala wla qiwta illah billah..
can you guys see these devils imposing their might on these poor people who come demanding nothing but their freedom to choose.. a tyrant with 82 year experience has mobilized his police state backed by zionist and fundie weapons from America to kill your Muslim brothers and sisters in Egypt and their children..
please make du3a now.... I didn't want to come to the forum now but this is far bigger than my personal turmoil..
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The zionists and the west are now busy trying to find their "right" candidate to rule egypt.
Asalaamu Alaikum, That is why Mubarak is wanting to leave in September and not now so that the slow transition of power will allow the zionists and the west more time to ensure that whatever government comes into power supports its policies and agenda's.
May Allah rid the Muslim world of these hypocrite leaders. Ameen
I didn't know Egypt was obliquely ruled by Zionists.
Mubarak who rules egypt for 32 years certainly is zionist-friendly, to say the least. He even was willing to block out the palestinians and made them suffer even more at behest of israel.
Egypt is also given a lot of money by USA every year to be friendly to Israel, most of those money is likely to be kept by Mubarak and his families/cronies.
I hope the will of the people for change doesn't succumb to the iron grip of this tyrant backed only by amero/Israeli interests...
I agree with you. Insha'Allah, this opportunity will not pass without the removal of this government and the establishment of an Islamic one that truly has the interests of the Egyptian people at heart rather than those of USA and Israel. This will likely not come about peacefully, but rather after much bloodshed and torment suffered by the people.
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The kaffirs can cause civil wars and all kinds of choas in the ummah, but they'll never stop islam
He it is Who sends blessings on you, as do His angels, that He may bring you out from the depths of Darkness into Light: and He is Full of Mercy to the Believers. [Quran {33:43}] www.QuranicAudio.com www.Quran.com
Allah Akbar and I want to thank the people of Gaza for standing with us even though it is raining and they have their own hell to deal with.. it truly touches our heart.. we're with you as you're with us.. today Egypt and tomorrow philistine insha'Allah
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May Allah protect them from all harms.
My heart goes out for them! I can't focus on my studies and have the TV on all the day. I even turn on the TV When I wake up for fajir prayer or sometimes in midnight or early morning hours. My heart is bleeding seeing all what is happening there
I donot think, Hosni Mobarak will be given a safe path to escape now. I wish, the organizer of 6 April, Shabal-Al-Masr movement shall come forward and request expert Egyptians from general public to help him organising a ruling team and take control of Egypt.
No UN approved Al-Bradei or some one else to protact Zionist interests...
When there is nothing left but Allah that is when you find out that Allah is all you need.
The 'right' candidate to take over in egypt, Omar Suleiman, linked to the CIA renditions program.
The man named by President Hosni Mubarak as his first ever deputy, Egyptian spy chief Omar Suleiman, reportedly orchestrated the brutal interrogation of terror suspects abducted by the CIA in a secret program condemned by rights groups.
His role in the controversial "war on terror" illustrates the ties that bind the United States and the Egyptian regime, as an unprecedented wave of protests against Mubarak's rule presents Washington with a difficult dilemma.
They've just dismantled a bomb in omar makram mosque where they treat the injured and were about to blame it on copts as they bomb their churches and blame on Muslims, and have detained the names of the facebook revolutionists and looking into the people in the square.. It is bad you guys for Egypt la 7wala wla qiwta illa billah..
you know that is exactly how they want it here.. Egypt subdued and beaten!
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They've just dismantled a bomb in omar makram mosque where they treat the injured and were about to blame it on copts as they bomb their churches and blame on Muslims, and have detained the names of the facebook revolutionists and looking into the people in the square.. It is bad you guys for Egypt la 7wala wla qiwta illa billah..
you know that is exactly how they want it here.. Egypt subdued and beaten!
That must not be allowed to happen!
The Egyptian people must stand together, regardless of their religion. United they stand, divided they fall. The government knows this!
Peace glo
Here I stand.
I can do no other.
May God help me.
Amen.
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[Psalm 95]
For those of you who do have Facebook accounts, consider joining this 'virtual march' in solidarity with the people of Egypt.
Nearly 3/4 million of people have joined already.
news broken on twitter via @virtualactivism...
A bomb was found near Omar Makram mosque where many are holding a sit-in. After tip. uprisers found it & calmly handed it to military #jan25
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Weapons and ids taken from policemen in plain clothes.
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Dr. Nawal El Saadawi, a leading Arab feminist, with protesters in Tahrir Square.
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Inside Tahrir Square on Thursday, I met a carpenter named Mahmood whose left arm was in a sling, whose leg was in a cast and whose head was being bandaged in a small field hospital set up by the democracy movement. This was the seventh time in 24 hours that he had needed medical treatment for injuries suffered at the hands of government-backed mobs. But as soon as Mahmood was bandaged, he tottered off once again to the front lines.
“I’ll fight as long as I can,” he told me. I was awestruck. That seemed to be an example of determination that could never be surpassed, but as I snapped Mahmood’s picture I backed into Amr’s wheelchair. It turned out that Amr had lost his legs many years ago in a train accident, but he rolled his wheelchair into Tahrir Square to show support for democracy, hurling rocks back at the mobs that President Hosni Mubarak apparently sent to besiege the square.
Amr (I’m not using some last names to reduce the risks to people I quote) was being treated for a wound from a flying rock. I asked him as politely as I could what a double-amputee in a wheelchair was doing in a pitched battle involving Molotov cocktails, clubs, machetes, bricks and straight razors.
“I still have my hands,” he said firmly. “God willing, I will keep fighting.”
That was Tahrir Square on Thursday: pure determination, astounding grit, and, at times, heartbreaking suffering.
Mr. Mubarak has disgraced the twilight of his presidency. His government appears to have unleashed a brutal crackdown — hunting down human rights activists, journalists and, of course, demonstrators themselves, all while trying to block citizens from Tahrir Square. As I arrived near the square in the morning, I encountered a line of Mr. Mubarak’s goons carrying wooden clubs with nails embedded in them. That did not seem an opportune place to step out of a taxi, so I found a back way in.
So did many, many others. At Tahrir Square’s field hospital (a mosque in normal times), 150 doctors have volunteered their services, despite the risk to themselves. Maged, a 64-year-old doctor who relies upon a cane to walk, told me that he hadn’t been previously involved in the protests, but that when he heard about the government’s assault on peaceful pro-democracy protesters, something snapped.
So early Thursday morning, he prepared a will and then drove 125 miles to Tahrir Square to volunteer to treat the injured. “I don’t care if I don’t go back,” he told me. “I decided I had to be part of this.”
“If I die,” he added, “this is for my country.”
In the center of Tahrir Square, also known as Liberation Square, I bumped into one of my heroes, Dr. Nawal El Saadawi, a leading Arab feminist who for decades has fought female genital mutilation. Dr. Saadawi, who turns 80 this year, is white-haired and frail and full of fiery passion.
“I feel I am born again,” she said, adding that she intended to sleep with the protesters on Tahrir Square. She also suggested that instead of being sent into comfortable exile, Mr. Mubarak should be put on trial as a criminal; that’s a theme I’ve heard increasingly often among pro-democracy activists.
There’s a small jail in Tahrir Square for pro-Mubarak thugs who are captured, and their I.D. cards indicate that many are working for the police or the ruling party. Mr. Mubarak may claim that he’s unhappy about the violence in Cairo, but he caused it — and the only way to restore order in Egypt and revive the economy is for him to step down immediately. I’m encouraged that the Obama administration is reportedly discussing with Egyptian officials ways to make that happen.
Countless Egyptians here tell me that they are willing to sacrifice their lives for democracy. They mean it. But I’ve heard similar talk in many other countries in the throes of democracy movements. Unfortunately, usually what determines the fate of such movements is not the courage of the democracy activists but the willingness of the government to massacre its citizens. In that case, the survivors usually retreat in sullen silence, and the movement is finished for a time.
Whatever Mr. Mubarak is planning, it does feel as if something has changed, as if the Egyptian people have awoken. When I needed to leave Tahrir Square today, several Egyptians guided me out for almost an hour through a special route so that I would not be arrested or assaulted — despite considerable risk to themselves. One of my guides was a young woman, Leila, who told me: “We are all afraid, inside of us. But now we have broken that fear.”
The lion-hearted Egyptians I met on Tahrir Square are risking their lives to stand up for democracy and liberty, and they deserve our strongest support — and, frankly, they should inspire us as well. A quick lesson in colloquial Egyptian Arabic: Innaharda, ehna kullina Misryeen! Today, we are all Egyptians!
David Brooks is off today. His column will appear on Sunday.
My duas are for peace and an honest government come to Egypt.
On a personal note I do not see much if any support coming from the USA for Mubarak. Mubarak and Egypt have long passed any value for the USA, Up until recent times the incentive was to keep pro-Russia Mubarak from entering into treaties with the Communists. Plus the value of the Suez canal. Both are no longer incentives. I think the USA will support any potential leader who will not open Egypt to China. The incentive these days is in preventing China from obtaining much needed oil as China becomes more Industrialized. The USA will support any leader who takes an anti-China stand. It is feared China has the potential of becoming the biggest threat the USA has ever faced. Only the war with China is an economic war rather than one fought with guns and bombs. At the moment the Mideast is a key area for the economic growth of China. So what we have is China and USA fighting a Proxy war by using the people in the Mideast as the unsuspecting ground forces. The USA wants the disturbance to continue to keep the region unsuitable for Chinese exploitation. China wants the disturbances to continue as they are a financial burden on the USA. China will support any potential leader who is receptive to China. The problem is that unless the people can find a true Islamic leader they will still have a puppet government, the only choice will then be if it will be a puppet of the USA or a puppet of China.
Egypt has only one choice and that is to find a strong Islamic leader to step forward and take command. If that does not happen it will be a return to a puppet government and they people will only suffer more as the puppet masters will see the need for greater control to prevent future uprisings.
So Egypt can be either Egypt, China or the USA, Let us make Dua that Egypt will successfully become Egypt.
In contradiction to the vapid antagonizers who wish to see a religious war between Muslims and Christians there are those souls who are willing to stand up for religious freedom — and thankfully they are an overwhelming majority!
“Look around you,” says Mohamed Helmy, a magazine editor, standing in the square at around noon Monday. “There are men, women, old people, young people, poor and rich, Muslims and Christians… Egyptians from all walks of life have a common goal: Getting rid of Mubarak.”
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A young Muslim man held a placard with a crescent and cross under the motto “Long live Egypt.” He explains its significance: “Mubarak is the one who created a “fitna” [rift] between the Muslims and the Christians in Egypt over the past 30 years.”
A nearby demonstrator, whose puffy eyes betray a week of little sleep, overhears the conversation and interrupts: “Why do you think no churches or mosques have been attacked since all police forces were removed from the city two days ago? It’s because places of worship have been protected by the population, and the neighborhood patrols.”
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Suddenly the voice of the muezzins (prayer caller) calms the general agitation as rows of men bow in prayer. Time seems suspended while the men pray, and Christian demonstrators standing close by.
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His wife, who wears a niqab, teaches at a Franciscan school attended by Muslims and Christians. “Why would I care? For the past 30 years, Mubarak has played the divide-and-conquer game with his people,” she says.
I am trying to get my head round this ... could it be true that the government would attack churches and mosques to keep the population blaming each other and remaining divided??
Peace glo
Here I stand.
I can do no other.
May God help me.
Amen.
Come, let us worship and bow down •
and kneel before the Lord our Maker
[Psalm 95]
I am trying to get my head round this ... could it be true that the government would attack churches and mosques to keep the population blaming each other and remaining divided??
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