Dissent Crushed: Abdel Kareem, Egypt’s Free Speech Martyr
al-fallujah:
Congratulations for speaking in the same words and tone that got Kareem four years in jail.
“Bush.killer”? That’s clever.
How about “Hosni.killer”? That soubriquet actually has legal standing in terms of real orders to have dissenters assassinated. But the obvious lack of genuine justice and rule of law in Egypt renders firm evidence of criminal activity moot.
It is amazing, that you could take one person’s sentence to four years — which translates to death or mental destruction — and use it as an opportunity to bash people you obviously loathe. But isn’t freedom of speech wonderful, al fallujah? You’re not facing jail for this are you? Or will the Bush.killer come after you now?
Unfortunately, the level of moral argument you utilize to make your point about the President and Secretary of State is somewhere in the sub-sub-basement of rhetorical discourse. This debased language smears its speaker far more than it does the objects of his hatred.
It is what comes out of a man’s mouth that matters…your bile bites no one but you, fella.
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Meanwhile, to Chris –
Thanks for the heads-up on the donation page for Kareem.
Unfortunately, the site seems to be down. I hope that this merely means there is so much traffic it disrupted service. Here’s the message when you try to open the site:
Error establishing a database connection
This either means that the username and password information in your wp-config.php file is incorrect or we can’t contact the database server at mysql3.the-enlightenment.net. This could mean your host’s database server is down.
I googled it — i.e., “free Kareem” — and got 211,000 hits. I found the image and some more info on support and will try the site again later.
It behooves every blogger in the ‘sphere to hit the pay pal button. Even though times are hard for us right now, I intend to pony up. Sometimes moral support is the only thing that keeps courageous (if somewhat brash!) people like Kareem going…especially in the deep loneliness he is facing.
I hope he is a man of faith; that will help him make it through with his mind intact. If I could, I’d send him Viktor Frankl’s book, “Man’s Search for Meaning.” The over-arching meaning Frankl assigned to his own concentration camp experiencemakes that need abundantly clear.
