Everybody has officially become a political analyst.
Whenever the subject of what's going on in Egypt comes up, EVERYONE has a political opinion to share.
Although I'm all for freedom of speech and press, I still believe we should place certain boundaries on each other. For the sake of sanity.
You find people that do not even know what the Muslim Brotherhood is telling you that they fear an Islamist state after Mubarak leaves.
You find people that are oblivious to the apparatus of Western intelligence bureaucracies telling you that Israel is our biggest threat.
Having so much information be available to you with such easy access definitely has its dark side.
You are overwhelmed with opinion, and a fraction of truth lost in the fringes.
You develop an abusive relationship with media networks, picking favorites and staying loyal to them.
You don't read half the amount you should be reading in order to even come remotely close to understanding a certain concept, individual, or event.
You don't criticize where you are getting all your information from and thus ride on the coattails of bullshit conspirators.
It's unbelievable the amount of ignorance and arrogance some people have showed. An amount of self-confidence that leaves you speechless.
Talk about the Brotherhood, El Baradei, Mubarak's Egypt, Israeli government, etc.
All I have is one very small request, which I don't think is unreasonable: Do not speak of theories unless you are well informed on the facts upon which you are building certain assumptions.
It pains me to see this naivety that has colonized the hearts of once passionate Egyptians. Ones that do care for their nation but are unfortunately hungry for kind words and thus jump at any promising rhetoric.
We've been called brave, we've been called jealous. We've been called adamant and we've been called weak.
These are defining times. Where are we going to stand? In the midst of the battlefield against tyranny, or on the sidelines?
To make things clear, I'm not sitting here with a holier-than-thou attitude preaching at you, God forbid.
It just tears me up inside to watch such phenomenal nationalistic momentum for change instantaneously collapse due to people jumping at the possibility of the slightest, and dimmest, light at the end of the tunnel.
Let's think reasonably for a second. Let's remember what has initiated this uprising in the first place.
I'm digressing, though. I'm actually writing this entry as a reaction to Glenn Beck's theories on Egyptian leadership.
I'm not going to sit here and vent about how bigoted, arrogant, self-righteous, and delusional the guy is. Because I think everybody can already agree with me on that.
What I do want to address, however, is the manner with which he discussed the Caliphate.
Never in my life, in anything I've ever read, or anything I've ever watched have I witnessed someone describe a holy religious social structure as a flesh eating plague.
Glenn Beck turned the Caliphate, created under the Prophet (pbuh), into a metaphor of degenerative social function.
This is a message to the entire American nation:
Islam is not your enemy. Islam is not going to take over your pathetic neurotic capitalist "free market world economy" obsession. Islam is not going to undermine your stubborn irrational racist excuse of foreign policy. Islam is not your 21st century USSR. ISLAM IS NOT DISSIDENCE TO THE WEST.
It's a shame a country as great as the USA would stoop so low as to bash an ancient much revered world religion.
Leave our apparently "spreading Caliphate" alone and focus on your endless democratic shortcomings.
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