Sunday, February 25, 2007

Freedom of Expression, As you like it..

Last week when I read the news about sentencing the Egyptian blogger for expressing his ideas, the news that I first knew from the Blog of Nora Younis, wasn’t as much shocking as the comments of some extremist person on her blog!!!

Only days before that, I was reading a novel, in which there is a part where a governor (main character of the novel) orders to release from prison all people including politicians, but ordered not to release any of the writers.. The ones that he is afraid of most …
The sentence – though different – reminded me of sentencing Marcel Khalifa for one of his songs, in which he only included holy Ayat, with really a good will and respect for the holy book.

Looking back into the last years, and the years earlier.. I wasn’t able unfortunately to find someone who has answer to the freedom of expression; it was always banned in a way or another, its only when time changes that taboo topics differ, from political to social to religious, But the history of defending freedom of expression is what takes it from phase to another, we fight to gain one right, which takes us to another step where we’ll have to defend other rights.. And this fight as well is what takes us from one state of freedom in country to another state..

I remember since school that In one of Shakespeare’s plays “As you like it”; Touchstone is one of the characters that represents a person that everybody else knows to be a fool (or actually a crazy man), at one of the speeches he (Touchstone) expresses how he likes that others consider him a fool; it’s the only way that everybody will leave him talk, express his ideas, criticize, without being condemned for his ideas.. People would say: “he just a crazy man...” and you never know how they would actually consider his words...

4 comments:

karakib said...

قصدك الأخ ده ؟؟
AHMED-EBRAHIM828@YAHOO.COM
و لا ده "؟؟

واحد معدي

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ما بين ده و ده
يا قلبي لا تحزن

Amanie F. Habashi said...

You are right!!! yes to be able in a society like ours to say what you really want, you need to pretend that you are crazy...like the crazy of the village keda... he can say everything about el 3mda we sheikh el ghafar ...and nothing happens to him...We should all practise this .. we will need it soon

Desert Rose said...

Antouk..

yes, both are bad, but i guess i read the comments of the first one.

Beastboy
This is exactly what i meant, i guess its the only way, and that we need to learn:)

Anonymous said...

Thanks for writing this.