Egypt`s Dilemma

Morsi was ousted by the army as popular dissent grew against him. Whether coup or not coup is not the question.  It is certainly a coup , but something which the world will not really take as a serious threat to the people of the country. As half the country is in favor of it and another half is against it.

Algeria, Turkey, Haiti have all gone through this route in the history.

As much as the Army has appointed a civilian government of technocrats and made a time table for the the new elections. It has found some credibility in the eyes of the world.

As for MB ( Muslim Brotherhood), they have to first get experience in running a country. Largely MB has been a resistance organization and for the last 80 years, its agenda was all about fighting the Government and promoting strict Islamist rules among-st its members. But when it comes to power, not everyone has the same ideology. MB therefore was not so much being an inclusive government, but more keen in consolidating its power centers to have a tight grip on the politics of the nation.
A liberal , secular . intellectual society does not easily accept Islamist agendas and very large portion of Egypt is liberal and for them , being chained by Islamist agenda is not favorable.

MB is still in its infancy and learning the rules of Governance and hence it should not really be upset for being thrown out first time from power. They have a large follower ship and can easily come to power again. It does not make sense for them to resist the coup. They should accept that , the governance probably did not meet peoples expectation in the first phase and they were booted out, but the next time, they have to be more pragmatic and inclusive.

Further blood shed by MB of its own people is not worth. Egypt is still a nascent democracy. It has a long way to go. On one of my earlier blogs, I had written on the need of a constitution, which is designed by global experts. But at the end, it was a constitution, which was more of an Islamist Agenda, then meeting the aspiration of its people. How far would have it gone.

I will not shed a tear on Egypt's coup. But I am firmly against army using fire power against MB .

Let the Egyptians start all over again. From a state of bankruptcy to now grants, loans and aid from other countries is another welcome sign. I am only waiting , when I can take a cruise again on the Nile.

Malalas Slap on Talibans Face.

Malala shares her birthday with me.  UN celebrated her birthday with global audience of her speech on courage against violence. She spoke brilliantly and as a young little girl with her powerful words made many a man cry.

Malala goes down in history in the same league as Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Badshah Khan , Martin Luther King, who stood firmly in fighting violence by non violent means.

Malala has also put Pakistan in a new light. It has restored some image of the country that , it is not all terrorist and corruption, but there are sensible people and only that their voice is generally subdued in the rattle of guns.

The best part of the speech was that she said, she will still not against Taliban and would not harm the man, who shot her. This was such a strong Slap on the face of Talibans, who go and kill innocent civilians and kill school going girls and blow themselves up routinely in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Even the American and the NATO forces have not been able to hit such a strong slap on the face of Talibans as this little girl has done. Both NATO and US forces should have long back used the power of women to fight the Talibans. There are millions of Malalas in Afghanistan, who have endured far too much in terms of whipping, stoning, killing, rape, abuse, but their voice was never made as loud as that of Malala now. Nevertheless, atleast for once, now UN realizes the importance of peace agents.

Malala should be taken as the Peace Ambassador by UN and let her show the world, that Pen will be always mightier then the sword.

As for the US agenda to start talking to Talibans, then they should simply send only Malala as their envoy for talks.

Snowden, Egypt and Aids Cure.

After a long time, I have come back to write this blog.

Snowden blows it all for US again.  Another interesting case , where privacy of life has little meaning left , no matter, you are in US or in Timbaktu.

In my post Murdoch Mad Masala,http://wildstud.blogspot.com/2011/07/murdoch-curry-masala.html I had written about an open life, where you really cannot hide anything from anyone and more and more of this is showing up routinely. Well, it is a self correcting system and how do I care, if the government wants to listen to my calls or read my blogs or check my emails. But yes, those into governance have a bigger fear as there is another Snowden, waiting to leak all there misdeeds to media.

Interestingly, it was US, which always cried foul on being cyber attacked by Chinese and now has to defend its position attacking Chinese, Europeans, Indians and whomsoever it wanted. Most hilarious was the comment of Obama, wherein he says, what is so big about it, everyone is doing on everyone else.  If I do something like this next time, I will use the same Phrase.

Actually, the one thing I love about American people is the courage they have to come out and speak against subjects which they believe undermine human freedom. Whether it is about Guantanamo Bay or it is the Officer, who leaked tons of information to wiki leaks or now Snowden. While in the eyes of strict government laws, these are legally offensive issues and the person has to pay a very high price of his own freedom, but then was it not Mandela or Gandhi or Martin Luther King, prosecuted and imprisoned   for speaking out and against the system. If Snowden has sold the classified information, it was still treason, but raise an alarm is awakening of the conscious of the person, which does not accept the system.

Whether Snowden revelation will stop countries to be a peeping tom is still doubtful. But I subtly support monitoring of crooks and bringing them to the books. Only worry is many a times, it is not the crooks, who are paying a price, but the normal weak person, who ends up being extorted or harassed for rather simple issues.  As for me, each and every single Government officer and politician should be monitored in third world and within months, we will see world free of corruption  Any why Government officers, because they have chosen to be into Public Service. And public service means a clean , humble ,selfless and supportive service to the people.  Even, if they are not monitored, they should have this fear that they could well be under electronic surveillance. Let us enjoy a cleaner world with least red tape . Did Obama not say, more risk is on him as when he leaves the president ship, the same system can infringe his privacy.

Obama should pardon Snowden and Assange , as much as he has admitted that the US security indeed infringed the  personal domain of people and countries.  Is it not that one of the CIA officer was caught red handed in Moscow trying to bribe the Russian for classified information. Well, it is all a routine game. We all know it. Only thing is that spying is not so much sophisticated anymore. Anyone with good hacking skills qualifies to be a good spy.  No government in the world can stop this personal skill of people. Let the Governments make up their minds, how for they want to go into the personal lives of people and specially, not their own citizens.

Egypt : Most classical case, where the elected Government today was thrown out by its people. For the first time, the world has realized that it is not just the ballot box , which matters, but the deliverable s to the people . When people do not see improvement in the quality of lives, they will pull down the government.  It has laid the basis of many a non functional governments to be booted out henceforth.

It has also shown that fundamentalist will have little say in modern Egypt. Well, let the events unfold and I only hope, Egypt gets a good government , which meets the aspiration of its people.

Aids Cure : Finally Aids is curable. Thanks to Bone marrow cells. Two aids patients already cured and let us hope that within a year or so, Aids is fully curable disease.

Whatever said, the world is becoming an interesting place with Internet and satellite television.