Monday, 10 September 2012

• Life as a president

  
  
  

  
  

  
  Just read an article written about Egypt's President, Morsi (written by Israeli's Haaretz - link)
  
  I have to say, I always have an interest on how well he will do as the president (I think many others do to as well)...   Though Egypt is not the only one that have a new president as an aftermath of the Arab Spring at respective countries, let alone the only president from the "islamist movement", as some would label them, got elected, but because there's an added element to it as this is Egypt, the homeland of the muslim brotherhood itself, that bring added attention to it...
  
  Expectation from many muslim in particular across the globe is high, in various form...    Some, who are in one way or another, influenced by the movement, would really want him to do well, I believe, as this is the beginning that most of them have been working for for decades now, the beginning of the fruits of their labor, so to speak..
  
  Some others, labelled by some to be the more "fundamentalist", seems to be ni the mood of keep scrutinizing every moze that he make, pointing out anything that can be branded of his collection of 'blameworthy' actions..    Actually, this have been seen even from the campaign period of the presidential election, I think...
  
  But that's from the perspective of some of the muslim..
  
  What about the perspective of the others..
  
  Just recently I watched a news clip from RT that basically stating that Morsi is simply the American pawn, doing what the US is plotting...   They are pointing towards Morsi's speech in Iran recently as a prime example of that..   Because of his action in condemning Basyar Assad and his regime, and hailing the people in Syria as fighter of freedom etc, he became the pawn of the US...
  
  Of course it is easy to understand why Iran and Russia would think of it that way..   They are committed to stand by Basyar Assad and his regime...
  
  I haven't noticed any news or comments about Morsi from the US side, but I guess it's because there's simply a bigger news that currently are occupying the attention of everyone in the US; the election...  
  
  So when there's a news article on Morsi from Haaretz, I naturally want to see how Morsi is presented from their perspective...
  
  It surely would be an interesting piece, right?
  
  Here are some portions of the articles that I copy from the article:
  
  This past week, for example, he retired 70 generals, changed the personnel of the Supreme Military Council, appointed 10 new provincial governors, changed the makeup of the Supreme Press Council and appointed new chairmen of the government newspaper boards. Morsi never thought that one day he would become a candidate for the presidency and had to run in the elections under orders from the Muslim Brotherhood leadership, yet in less than two months he has become the strong man of Egypt.
  
  The "Sinai campaign" in which the Egyptian army was sent to fight World Jihad groups and their Bedouin supporters in the peninsula has redoubled Morsi's political strength. He has proved he is more determined than his predecessor when it comes to fighting terror in Sinai and he has also made it clear to Egypt's citizens that when the need arises their country is able to "impose its sovereignty" over all parts of the state. In this way he has blocked the criticism to the effect that Egypt's pride and security had become hostages to the Camp David agreement with Israel.
  
  Morsi is proving that in contrast to Mubarak, who paid little mind to public opinion, he knows how to win the public's heart. Recently, for example, the complaints regarding domestic security have multiplied. Many citizens have complained of the rising incidence of robberies and rapes, about increasing attacks on women and especially the surging gangsterism in the streets. Morsi demonstrated his capabilities in this area in a very impressive performance. Two weeks ago, at 5 A.M., the inhabitants of the King Maryout neighborhood in Alexandria, a luxurious quarter that is home to Egypt's wealthy, witnessed an unprecedented scene. About 20 armored vehicles, hundreds of security and special forces personnel and dozens of police cars carrying top police officials deployed near the palatial home of Sabry Nakhnoukh, known as a notorious crime gang boss. Nakhnoukh and his bodyguards were led, shackled, to one of the armored vehicles, which drove them straight to jail. A little while later all the television and radio broadcasts reported the news of the historic arrest that "put an end to the gangster state in Egypt."
  
  Nakhnoukh was known as "king of the baltajiya." This has its origin in the Egyptian term baltaji (apparently from Turkish). Literally, this means a man who carries an axe or a woodcutter. In Egypt, the term came to refer to a goon who intimidates a neighborhood and by extension to the goons acting in the service of the regime, imposing its will everywhere.
  
  Nakhnoukh's arrest has afforded Morsi considerable benefit. Putting the kingpin behind bars symbolizes not only "the end of the age of gangsterism" - the headline of one of the government newspapers. It is also a manifestation of impressive settling of accounts with the previous regime and its symbols, and proof that the new president is afraid only of Allah.
  
  
  Now, that last lines very much symbolizes what the muslim brotherhood is all about, I guess...   And, I find it very interesting that, when the article point that he have to run for presidential election under order from the movement, it made me recall one thing that puzzled my mind sometimes back: they can keep selecting anyone "unknown" to be placed as a president, or prime minister, or a leadership position (a minister etc), of a country, and that person would just be ready to do his job...    Similar scenario have occurred several times, as I can remember it, in a number of different countries..
  
  
  Hmmm...    I know these things are mostly irrelevant for most of you guys, but somehow it is interesting stuff to me, ahaha...
  
  oh well, regardless of whatever I have written, I guess I have this question if you want to answer it:
  
  

  Do you think you can do a good job if you actually been elected as the president of your country?
  

  
  
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  Sigh, I have been having some things in my mind that I feel like I want to post, but it always is difficult to sit down and write and post them...   Unlike any "impulse post" like this one (and most of my posts) where I see or read something, and some impulse triggered my brain, and I straight away hit the keyboard and post, and voila!  a post...    I guess the thinking process is something I have difficulty to do, and posting something without any necessity to think or use my brain cells is the thing I tend to do much more easily...    I wonder if the things I want to post and say will ever be post during my lifetime...   Oh well...
  
  Yep, suddenly there's a rant as a footnote of this post, bwahaha...
  
  
  

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