The mantra of many young people in Egypt now is: "i"m Egyptian not Arab"

Submitted by dhimmi no more (United States), Jul 12, 2010 at 19:07

There is no doubt that many Egyptians were horrified by the 9/11 atrocity and they always want to distance themselves from the Arabs

In a recent article in the Guardian and you will find it at

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jul/08/egyptian-arab-cultural-identity

The author is telling us about a new phenomenon in Egypt where not just the Copts that are saying we are not Arab. We are Egyptian" but also many young people that are also very alarmed about the "Saudisation" of Egypt and many make fun of al-hijab wa al-niqab and for this see this great blog by an Egyptian whose name is Hasan el-Hilali and it is called

higab wa niqab wa zibalat ukhra

or: al-hijab and al-niqab and other trash

and even if you do not know any Arabic just check it and you will get the message

http://hegabs-nekabs.blogspot.com/

Great article. Egyptians always felt much more superior when they compare their own civilization with that of the Arabs and may Egyptians still regard the Arabs as: 3Arab garab or the Arabs are scabies and like I always say Egyptians are too sophisticated to fall for the nonsense of the brand of islam that comes from today's al-Hijaz

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