Almost ten days of struggles and clashes between protesters and the police. Most of the clashes took place not on Midan Tahir but on a side street, leading to the interior ministry. Army and police say, that they just wanted to defend the ministry. Generally the language used in media as well as from the “combatants” is more related to civil war than to a demonstration. And I suppose some of the demonstrators as well as some of the armed forces think the same way. What was quite obvious from the first moments after the revolution in january on, is the fact, that every group has a different image of what should Egypt be in future. Because there is a huge lack of education and knowledge as well as a lack of a discurs culture and respect of different opinions, many have no other way than violence to express their aims and wishes. And the ones who express their aims and wishes in different ways are offended or harrassed, like the example of Sarah Gebril, Alaa Abdel-Fatah and Aliaa El-Mahdy shows.
The egyptian society is not mature enough, to deal with real democracy, I fear. The attempt to elect a new government starting this weekend will lead to more fighting, but this time not against one enemy but between the different interest groups. And as usaul the stongest will win. This is how Egypt works at the moment. It will take much more time to create a sufficent base for real democracy.
Of coures, nethertheless, there are very kind, smart and interested people in Egypt. I know many of them. But there are also many uninterested, stubborn, illiterate and hypocritical people in Egypt, in all social classes. Education in different fields is the biggest task for Egypt at the moment and not democracy. Democracy is something that needs certain abilities to make it work. And these abilities are completely missing at the moment.
hopefully I am wrong.
