The unbearable fragility of the coup

If revolutions are fuelled by beauty, then the counter-revolution thrives on ugliness, and therefore, it is not strange that the coup-led government in Egypt is generously spending money on increasing the level of moral and intellectual ugliness.

It is through revolutions that the human existence shines and mankind derives the purest and best form of what is within them.

Therefore, the first thing anyone desiring to stage a coup against a revolution would do is feed the masses with large amounts of ugliness and evil in order for their existence to go back to its natural state and their biggest dream is their livelihood.

As the revolution is an ethical action and the coup is unethical, it is necessary to lay a basis for a new moral code that is corrupt and tattered. Moreover, just as the virtuous cities have their honourable men and principles, the ugly cities have their shameful figures, soldiers, values and behaviour which their evil media grants medals and honours while their leaders are granted the highest positions.

The ugly sate worked diligently to close the pores of society, making society deadened to the scenes of blood and torture and more enjoying of the political and media pollutants fed to them.

In such an atmosphere, no one stops to hear the cry of one of the most prominent faces of the January revolution, Khaled El-Sayed. From prison he tells the horrors of the hell he has been experiencing since his arrest and that of his colleague Nagy Kamel until they were settled in the awful Abu Zaabal prison, passing through the detention centre in Azbakeya, where breaking men’s noses while sexually abusing them has become a pastime for the officers there.

In his letter published on January Gate, an activist news website, Khaled El-Sayed said: “As soon as we entered Abu Zaabal prison, we passed by horrors we had only heard about. They stripped us then sprayed us with cold water and left us like that for hours.”

Incidentally, Khaled El-Sayed has a very famous picture of himself with Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi standing behind him, smiling proudly because he is in a photo with the youth of the January revolution. It was taken in the early days after Hosni Mubarak was overthrown, when Mubarak’s generals and students were scrambling to take a souvenir photo with the pure faces of the revolution.

Why are they doing this to the supporters of the January revolution?

The answer to this question is found in the first paragraph of this article.

The author is an Egyptian writer. This is a translation of the Arabic text published by Al-Sharq newspaper on 18 February, 2014

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