One Slap from Indiawith More on the Way…

Just as America regained its composure from the first slap in the face by Egypt, India delivered a second blow. Despite America’s desperate attempts to bail out its NGOs' members as if they were above the law, Egypt began their sentencing, ignoring the American threats to cut off aid and other benefits.

India followed Egypt’s example as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh criticized NGOs in India that received foreign funding from the United States, which amounted to 54 million Indian rupees in the last 5 years. He accused those NGOs of inflaming public opinion and encouraging demonstrations against nuclear generators in Koodankulam. Those organizations are currently being investigated by the Indian courts.

America has played the same role in a number of other countries, providing funding to NGOs that operate under the guise of education, culture or enlightenment, using the pretext that people need to develop their concepts of democracy and individual freedom. Eventually, these organizations turned into a tool of destruction, leading to the breakdown of these societies and making it easy for America to control them. The U.S. may have the world within its grasp, but it seems the world has caught on to these tricks; it has increased its vigilance towards these NGOs and now monitors their accounts to limit the dominance of the United States, shattering America’s pride and arrogance. Those funds have become a scandal and an affront to the American ideology of imperialism. Now America just has to wait for the additional slaps to roll in.

I hope that Egypt will stand firm in its position to move forward with the trials of those who conspire against it with the United States’ backing and that Egypt does not respond to the pressure which increased in the hours before the trial. If America does not refrain from judging those who do it harm, so too must its citizens be judged when they do harm to others.

What happened to the presidential candidates who were exposed to attacks, like Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, who was subject to personal attacks, and Amr Moussa, whose conference was sabotaged in the Sharqia Governorate? A large number of the Egyptian people are exposed to the same threats every day, yet no one is shedding any light on these attacks because the victims are not as important as the candidates. If the candidates were accusing the state of being lax in their defense, what can the rest of the Egyptians expect? Why is it acceptable for the state to provide security for the candidates’ conferences when they are unable to protect themselves without private security companies? Why must they be like a businessman or an artist and use a personal body guard? Are the Egyptian people worth less than VIPs and celebrities?