The sense that the Egyptian people have reached a watershed and are finally going to insist on greater influence over their leaders is palpable in this article from Amal al-Oumma, the newspaper of the Muslim Brotherhood of Alexandria. The author, Reem al-Masry, writes of what the Egyptian uprising means to him and what it has taught his people about Hosni Mubarak, who has ruled that nation for 30 years.
For Amal al-Oumma, Reem al-Masry writes in part:
He [Mubarak] is crazier than Nero, who burned Rome, killed his people, and then laid the blame for his crimes at the feet of Rome’s Christians. Like Nero, after destroying the country and killing its sons, Mubarak so arrogantly stood there to announce that he wouldn’t flee, and that those demanding freedom are to blame for the chaos. He even seemed free of regret – whether it be for his victims or Egypt’s state of ruin.
“The revolution has shown us that the regime hates this country and its children more than we ever imagined, and is prepared to burn the entire country to the ground and sit on the rubble and corpses of its sons. … The revolution has shown us that tyrants have servants who all must be uprooted, as they are like weeds wound around an evil tree.
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