Egypt should pay for Nile waters - haha!

Can you believe this?

Some African with a psychosis says:
Just as oil is the natural wealth of the Arab world, which the nations hosting Lake Victoria pay for dearly, the waters of Lake Victoria are the natural wealth of the people of East Africa and should diligently be utilised for the benefit of its people.

The Arabs in the north irrigate their dry land to produce food for their people using our Lake Victoria waters at no cost at all, yet no single drop of their oil can reach us freely.

Since the Nile water agreement was reached, the nations hosting Lake Victoria have been kind to the Egyptians to our detriment, and now it is high time we sold our water to them. What is required at this juncture is for Kenya, Tanzania and Burundi to collectively support Uganda where the Nile River starts off, by looking for ways and means of installing a water meter so that we start billing Egypt for the water she uses monthly.

Talk about "De Nial"

Here is the article in it's entirety http://www.nationmedia.com/dailynation/nmgcontententry.asp?category_id=23&newsid=114092

CONTROVERSIAL OR JUST PLAIN SILLY?

Sarkozy was in Egypt on an official trip to meet with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. His decision to take his new girlfriend Carla Bruni along brought about mixed emotions. What the hell is wrong with mixing a little pleasure with business anyways huh?
This not only angered some of his political opponents back home who said Sarkozy was blurring the lines between public and private life, but check this out:
Sarkozy also came under fire from Egyptian lawmakers, who said it was improper of him to share a hotel room with his girlfriend LOL.
Independent Egyptian Member of Parliament Gamal Zahran said in parliament that by welcoming Sarkozy and Bruni, Egypt was giving the impression that the Muslim country was "ready to accept official prostitution by heads of state," All foreigners as long as they are not from a predominantly Muslim nation are allowed to shack up with their lovers at hotels here, you don't have to be a head of state to be able to do that!

GAMAL MUBARAK - WHY NOT?

Why wouldn't we as a people of a proud nation allow GAMAL MUBARAK to be the next president of Egypt just because he is the son of the current president Hosni Mubarak? I mean seriously folks, why not?

In Syria Hafez al Assad handed down power to his son by changing the constitution and reducing the minimum age of a would be president.

In Jordan King Hussein handed down power to his son Abdullah. So why shouldn't Egypt for Pete's sake or for the sake of sidi morsi Abbas ya'll?

Even the infamous Bush is the son of an the ex president Bush Sr. and they are the United Fucking States of America for Christs sake.

Read my prior post on how Egyptians have learned the lessen all too well from neighbouring countries who tried to play the democracy card and got licked all too well. A hell of a lot of people will gladly not only allow him to assume the position of President, but will actually support him. It is a long cultivation in the process.

Having won his bought with leukemia and having recently be wedded Khadija, he is now a very eligible candidate.

What do you think? What's wrong, what are your alternatives?

Grossly In-congruent

Although Islam to me is a Great religion - as the harder things in life usually tend to reap their respective rewards accordingly - it has more or less become a thing of mere theory with more and more of the masses each day. A style or a fashion statement, an anti authoritarian fad, a terrible misconceived melodrama turned funny.

Traits of piousness in any religion are displayed through actions. Having said that, most of these earnest practitioners of their respective Divine faiths tend to display a thing or two that make them identifiable within a crowd. Such as a white collar as far as men of the Cloth are concerned. A beard for Jews and Muslims. The veil for Muslim woman etc. I won't get into all of them right now but as far as Islam goes, we all know that such physical traits don't do any justice without accompanying actions.

Do these sound familiar; a vocational worker that isn't so crafty but sports the Islamic style beard in a hope to accrue browny points for not being all that knowledgeable in what he is supposed to be, in other words pleading with your more compassionate side or maybe even tryna send the message - I am a terrorist at large - don't mess with me or I might go Bin Laden on your Ass, at best he is a hustler especially when he bluntly wants to charge you an arm and a leg for something he didn't even do properly.

How about having a close relative who aspires to be the GURU of local sheikh-hood, sporting the long beard, short trousers, claiming to have memorised more Quran than you yet has a serious issue with Allah. Meaning he isnt happy with what he has been dealt in life and feels it incumbent upon him to take what his lacking judgement deceives him into thinking is his rightful entitlement. Meaning your lunch for example, trust me, that's to say the least. This is nothing short of the shia ideology to me. A self centered sheikh, whaaaat.., no way, that feels that he has been given the short end of the stick and goes all out tryna get his, including spreading pre-Islamic style lies, using deceit etc? No wonder more and more people are misunderstanding Islam every passing day. The sad thing is, that this fake ass sheikh -- that just so happens to be closely related to me -- admits that he isnt a sheikh, he just camouflages himself as one as it makes him feel at ease. Aaaaagh! Does anyone hear the phrase FASHION STATEMENT?

How about Steven Spielberg's support for Israel and the slaughtering of Palestinian babies, yet has the balls to say that he withdrew as the media consultant for the bejing games because of China's -- get this -- lack of involvement in putting an end to the suffering of Darfur residents. Somebody yell "HOG WASH ALREADY PLEASE," I mean what a hypocrit, please. Although he makes pretty good films.


How about catching a glimpse of a fine young female, due to her sporting her lower half in acrylic spandex or tight ass AX Armani's, only to pry your gaze away from her tightly wrapped butt up to her torso and bust, to find that she is [get this] veiled. In my opinion this is making a mockery of Islamic garb as this confusing at best to most people.

i mean lose the hijab already please. It's also kind of like being at a nude beach, because everyone is nude, nobody really cares because you are supposed to be nude, but when someone with a bikini or a Speedo walks on to the beach, people start checking them out, human intuition makes your mind wander to whats underneath that bikini or whatever. Reason being, it is human nature to want to discover the unknown. Curiosity killed the cat remember.

Now let me move onto family, both my parents have performed their obligatory Hajj, are both Dr.'s, both pray 5 times a day. You would think that they are the epitome of Muslim tolerance and understanding right? Not! I mean I love my parents both to death but their actions and their fighting seriously got me contemplating changing my religion over to Catholicism or something. As did a lot of other things in my family and circle of friends families, such as all the profound charity work that some folks do yet are so damn self centered, egotistical and stubborn, and some times all out rude and obnoxious. However in the end I decided that it is not Islam's fault that about 60% of the people I know that claim to be Muslims are better of if they practiced Voo-Doo. Plus I didn't want to become an apostate and realized that I was insane for even thinking of changing my religion as I love Islam so very much. It is like the promise of a better life just like the American Dream except is concerned with both heaven and Earth and is not really a dream but a logically inevitable leap of faith.

I mean a religion that protects you from all the ills of humanity, that protects the weak, gives people their rights accordingly and is also so grossly misunderstood sounds like a very special thing. The last thing you want when admiring such a private and personal awe inspiring thing such as Islam is a bunch of lunatics running around acting like imbeciles, claiming complete submission to this religion, it can make you feel like a creep for even having anything to do with it. Do you know what I mean?

Egyptian Reverse Culture Shock

I remember years back once when it was like 5:00 a.m. in the morning after a long night of partying and drinking whilst listening to the newest tunes under a talented mixoligists at the Atlas Hotel, our group headed out to check out the new nearby Mcdonalds for an early breaky.

Even though they still lack the basic breakfast menu here in Egypt like Egg Mcmuffins and Pancakes and what not that you can find in the West, Egypt has still come a long way indeed since the early 80's.

Back then there was only one channel on tv, things were just a little backwards to say the least.

I explicitly remeber coming to live in Egypt for the first time -- for some strange reason -- way back 1982 from Washington D.C.

Being accustomed to good ol American Junk food and what not, it was so depressing moving to Egypt, I remeber full well. You couldn't even buy a pizza here except at a place called La Cassetta, and it was really expensive. My folks kept on telling me that it was the equivelant of two weeks pay of a government employee with 5 kids. Just so that I would appreciate them taking me thereto eat every blue moon or so.

You also couldn't grow your hair past your ears back then if you were a guy, even though Michael jacksons' thriller topped the charts back then. The population was 30 million and people thought that was an astronomical figure lol, compared to todays 70+ million. That means the population has more than doubled in the past two decades, wow.

There was lots of traffic back then too but not as bad as today, now way and I remeber that Ahmad Adawiya song "zahma ya Donia zahma," he was the equivelant of todays Shaaban Abdel Rahim I guess you could say.

Mcdonalds didn't come to Egypt till the mid 90's, I guess it hasd something to do whith when saddam invaded kuwait and all the Gulf Arabs were like 'What - there is no God damn Mcdonalds here!' Though I must admit there was KFC & Wimpy back then long before I even arrived in Egypt.

So in essance you see Egypt has come a long way but in all reality I think it has a long way to go yet.

Having reverse culture shock is quite common every time I leave egypt for a couple of years and return. So I have learned to accept the fact that Egypt will never really be anything like the West and I should stop comparing.

For what it's worth, good job egypt yet you still have a long way to go.