The Egyptian Falcon

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Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Wael Abbas............Solidarity Campaign

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Can anybody detect the main reason behind this vicious campaign that Wael Abbas is being subject to for the last month almost? Wael Abbas for those who do not know is the founder and Chief Editor of the Arabic Misr Digital electronic news paper.

Wael has been so successful in many of his campaigns within the year of 2006, specially his campaign regarding exposing some of the Egyptian Police Officers that committed torture against Egyptians. Also, his campaign on sexual harassment that took place downtown Cairo in last Eid El Fetr feast was a significant eye opener for many activists. We can't say by all means that he was the only player in all these campaigns, but he was one major contributor to most of them.

For this and more, Wael has been chosen by the BBC to deliver an international Christmas Message among a distinguished group of worldwide known intellects.

He has been lately subject to a real coward campaign that targeted his image and his family's too. He has been accused of various diminishing characteristics all targeting at bringing him into social death and loss of interest of his supporters.

It is so clear that this campaign biased against Wael on the Internet is also coupled with lots of an enormous attack from the semiofficial magazines and news Papers like Rose Al Youssef, Al-Ahram and Al-Akhbar. It is obvious that all these campaigns are targeting to silence Wael and all other bloggers and stop them from exposing the real criminals in our Arab countries. The aspects of Democracy and Freedom that Wael and his friends are presenting made these criminals and tyrants to launch such campaigns.

Wael has his own political, social and cultural views that might agree or disagree with yours, but you can't but respect his sense of loyalty to his cause and persistence in perusing it through.

If we as bloggers would accept that one of us would be hammered and demoralized in this way, then we all will face the same destiny as we all have people that are with us or against us at any point of time. So as we all are in support of free speech and criticism, we should not accept at all the fact that we get demoralized by those who disagree with our views.

Please show your support for our blogger community member Wael Abbas


If you want to read more about Wael Abbas and his works check the Following links:

Rosa Al Youssef attack - The Arabist site
Wael Selection by BBC - BBC site
Blogging in the Middle East - The Raw Story site
Police Brutality Report - Global Voice Online site
Journaist Abeer Alaskary call for support of Wael - Ikhwan Web site

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