{"id":1057,"date":"2006-06-24T22:33:41","date_gmt":"2006-06-24T22:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1057"},"modified":"2006-06-24T22:33:41","modified_gmt":"2006-06-24T22:33:41","slug":"2006-6-24-brothers-and-comrades-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1057","title":{"rendered":"Brothers and Comrades"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">Back to blogging freely, 3alaa posted <a title=\"Manalaa, in solidarity with the brotherhood\" href=\"http:\/\/www.manalaa.net\/in_solidarity_with_the_brotherhood\">something interesting<\/a> yesterday on his blog, recalling his \u00e2\u20ac\u0153release\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd experience in <a title=\"Arabist report-3alaa betean up in 3omraniya police station\" href=\"\/archives\/2006\/06\/22\/3alaa-beaten-up-in-3omraniya-police-station\/\">el-3omraniya police station<\/a>, and more importantly, he sent strong message of solidarity to the Muslim Brothers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 detainees.<br \/>3alaa, the staunch secularist, bumped into the MB youth who were picked up during a summer beach trip in <a title=\"New MB arrests\" href=\"\/archives\/2006\/06\/19\/new-brotherhood-arrests\/\">Marsa Matrouh<\/a>. 3alaa speaks about how the misery of detention unites everyone, and how the brothers and the comrades became friends.<br \/>3alaa\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s impression of the Brothers youth was that &#8216;<a title=\"in solidarity with the brotherhood\" href=\"http:\/\/www.manalaa.net\/in_solidarity_with_the_brotherhood\">they where from this new breed of islamists that reads blogs, watches al jazeera, sings sha3by songs, talks about intense love stories and chants &#8220;down Mubarak&#8221;. and being young most of them did not have any experience with prison before.<\/a>&#8216;<br \/>Interesting, coz it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s that same caliber of youth who are pushing the Islamist group towards moderation, and coordination with other secular forces. And it was them who pushed the MB&#8217;s leadership to join in the street protests after Kefaya presented both a daring model for breaking political taboos and, at the same time, a pressure on the group to take a stronger stand towards the regime, lest losing the base cadres who are eager for more confrontationalist stand vis a vis the government&#8217;s continuous crackdowns.<br \/>More raproachment is expected, and needed, between <a title=\"The Prophet and the Proletariat\" href=\"http:\/\/www.swp.org.uk\/swp_archive.php?article_id=6868\">Islamists and leftists<\/a>, in such a critical stage.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">Back to blogging freely, 3alaa posted <a title=\"Manalaa, in solidarity with the brotherhood\" href=\"http:\/\/www.manalaa.net\/in_solidarity_with_the_brotherhood\">something interesting<\/a> yesterday on his blog, recalling his \u00e2\u20ac\u0153release\u00e2\u20ac\ufffd experience in <a title=\"Arabist report-3alaa betean up in 3omraniya police station\" href=\"\/archives\/2006\/06\/22\/3alaa-beaten-up-in-3omraniya-police-station\/\">el-3omraniya police station<\/a>, and more importantly, he sent strong message of solidarity to the Muslim Brothers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 detainees.<br \/>\n3alaa, the staunch secularist, bumped into the MB youth who were picked up during a summer beach trip in <a title=\"New MB arrests\" href=\"\/archives\/2006\/06\/19\/new-brotherhood-arrests\/\">Marsa Matrouh<\/a>. 3alaa speaks about how the misery of detention unites everyone, and how the brothers and the comrades became friends.<br \/>\n3alaa\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s impression of the Brothers youth was that &#8216;<a title=\"in solidarity with the brotherhood\" href=\"http:\/\/www.manalaa.net\/in_solidarity_with_the_brotherhood\">they where from this new breed of islamists that reads blogs, watches al jazeera, sings sha3by songs, talks about intense love stories and chants &#8220;down Mubarak&#8221;. and being young most of them did not have any experience with prison before.<\/a>&#8216;<br \/>\nInteresting, coz it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s that same caliber of youth who are pushing the Islamist group towards moderation, and coordination with other secular forces. And it was them who pushed the MB&#8217;s leadership to join in the street protests after Kefaya presented both a daring model for breaking political taboos and, at the same time, a pressure on the group to take a stronger stand towards the regime, lest losing the base cadres who are eager for more confrontationalist stand vis a vis the government&#8217;s continuous crackdowns.<br \/>\nMore raproachment is expected, and needed, between <a title=\"The Prophet and the Proletariat\" href=\"http:\/\/www.swp.org.uk\/swp_archive.php?article_id=6868\">Islamists and leftists<\/a>, in such a critical stage.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[227,6,225,153],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}