Thursday, November 02, 2006

I can´t believe...

I can’t believe I missed my first rain in Egypt! Yesterday while going to work I noticed the streets were wet. Bu tit was too late and I didn’t have the chance to feel the acid rain on my face.

Last week was also the long-waited Eid. It’s a holiday after Ramadan, everybody gets three days off and its time to celebrate. People went literally crazy. Especially a certain group of Egyptian men, horny as ever. There are many postings on different blogs and news articles about this certain happening. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6106500.stm

It’s up to non participants of this “event” to evaluate the information and only imagine what happened.

I didn’t have the honor to see it myself but when we had late breakfast and walk on the same street that day I noticed people were much more open and rude as normally. Tradition is that you get some deep looks and comments lets say from 60% of men but that day the percentage was nearly 95% and people paid attention in a really loud and rude way.

Probably it was the high feeling of escape from holy Ramadan.

Just different Muslims understand Islam differently.

1 comments:

Peep said...

Oh my god.. that story on BBC.. this and other stories in the blogs about the harassment are very disturbing and creepy. And I might add it builds up my prejudice against the country