Inhuman and disgraceful
If you expect me to be one of those persons so sensitive and interested all the time in general matters and the lives of innocent people and all, then you're viewing the wrong blog. To make clear my point: I feel sorry for people leading a 'bad' life and all, but I don't think of them as often as other people do. But a few days ago, I got to know about some incident taking place in down town (here in Cairo) and it didn't only make me feel upset and insecure in my own country, it provoked me so much.
Well, I don't want to talk about it in detail, as I don't want to remember it or reveal it to the ones who know nothing about it, because it will worsen the image of the place I belong to.
It's just about a few boys (cowards actually), who got (I don't know what to call it) like turned on by some kind of belly dancer (,who was advertising for her stupid, new movie near down town or something like that). So they went to the streets, saw a couple of girls with scarfs (Kopftuch in German) and decided (most irrationally) to cut their clothes and sort of abuse them this way or the other. As far as I know, the abuse didn't really extend to sexual abuse, one can just call it sexual harassment: Thank God, the girls weren't harmed by this attack more than getting their clothes cut, which is humiliating enough. But I mean they weren't raped or something like that.
Well, there's nothing to say about this other than it being inhuman and brutal. I mean where are we supposed to be living? And where were the people at the time of the accident?Or they preferred to watch and not to defend the poor girls, which by the way were having a head scarf on, so doesn't it ring any bell whatsoever, though in civilized regions you don't need a scarf to show that you're religious or to protect yourself from sexual harassment.
Apart from that I personally can't get that these cowards were completely out of their senses, that they were 'turned on' by some dancer and therefore wanted to satisfy their sexual needs and practise it on some girls they found walking harmlessly in the streets.
I know these things can happen and are happening every now and then, but only in dark regions or in places where there is war or where there's some lack of supervision. But here in our country, though we have plenty of things missing and all, there is still no war and I assumed (apparently wrong was my assumption) one was supposed to get some help when being attacked, in the middle of every disturbance in our country's system.
No!I was simply wrong. What was done was that some newspapers kept twisting this accident and changing it that it would fit in the perfect image of our country.
I wonder why they prefer to twist facts in other people's minds as well as in their own? Why don't they try to face facts in bright light and punish the guilty ones, instead of imagining false images?? We all know or can expect the answer.
I am just glad I don't belong to any of the irrational groups I'm surrounded by. I am glad I'm unique enough to use reason (which by the way differs us human beings from fellow creatures). I am glad I am still able to 'keep' my humanity and I am not like those cowards, who lack the ability to control oneself and prefer to be lead and forced by our animatic instincts.
There is this voice telling me that there's still hope in this life and that our group will somehow succeed in delivering a human message.