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Egyptian protests and rebellions against tyranny in the middle history:
"Won the prayer of the Prophet"
"We are Here peeling Onion"

A Land Center for Human Rights held a Seminar on "The protests and rebellions of the Egyptians against tyranny in the middle history" on Thursday, 22/4/2010 from two o'clock until five in the evening, attended by thirty-seven farmers, lawyers and representatives of some NGOs and rural areas of the governorates of Cairo, Damietta, Fayoum, 6 October, Qaliubiya, Dakahlia, Kafr El-Sheikh, Giza, Helwan University, Qena, Gharbeyya and Beheira. The meeting, which was chaired by Mr. / Mohamed Hegazy Salim, President of Zohour organization for rural friendship, in Qaliubiya, discussed the importance of studying the history of Egypt to develop expertise of the Egyptian people in defending their rights and their struggles and resistance to the injustice of the Arab rulers and the effects of their rule and tyranny on the rights of the Egyptians. Hegazy stressed that the culture of resistance for the Egyptians is rooted in history; from the Pharaonic State till the Renaissance era, passing through the history of Egypt in the med era. Hegazy also stressed that the Arab invasion of Egypt to start the Umayyad, the Abbasids, Alfatemien, Alaioubin and Mamluks resulted in hundreds of protests and revolts against the injustice of these invaders. Then, he concluded his speech by a poem verse, saying that:
"Governed by them or not, still the Egyptian is Egyptian and the Mamluk is Mamluk"
Then, Mr. Abdul Aziz Jamaluddin, historical researcher, spoke. He reviewed the rebellions and protests in the Egyptian mid stages of history, and its role in building a culture of resistance to the Egyptians since the entrance of the Arab ruler Amr Ibn El-Aas to the land of Egypt. Although the majority of Egyptians have learned Arabic and most of them turned into Islam, but the doctrine of Egyptian religion retained as the same rituals of Egypt, and he justified the transformation of Egyptian pronunciation to Arabic because it became the language of conqueror and victorious, who always has the control and government offices. If somebody wants to get a job or the right to a decent life, he had to learn the language of the ruling conqueror who had changed the language of the Egyptians and their religion. In spite of the reserving nature of the Egyptians, they had many rebellions, protests, and invented the Egyptian People's Resistance Literature. Jamaluddin discussed how could Arab invaders seized the riches of Egyptian farmers throughout the long history and how the villages were planted with clover considering the "spring" as a right for those invaders, where the majority of these land were cultivated with clover for Arab horses. The Arabs did collect the tribute (Jezya) from the Egyptians, whether he did declare bein Muslim or not; as long as he is an Egyptian, he should pay the tribute. The Egyptians mocked at those who entered Islam but paid a tribute in spite of that, telling them: What is benefited by declaring your Islam although you pay tribute?, they responded: "we won the prayer of the Prophet". Also, the agricultural land was not exempted from its tax (Kharag), even if the owner became Muslim; the land was godless, and the owner has to pay the levy and not a tribute, although they are two sides of the same coin, and that the investment money of the Arab rulers was an investement for a fool, making them transporting gold and silver and wealth of Egypt, and wasting it in the extravagance of women, drinking alcohol, building palaces and the acquisition of servants and slaves. And although it passed Egypt periods of famine in the era of Umayyad to the extent that the Nile dried up and the Egyptians were planting onions, they were Iakecron onions to fill their hunger and their families.
Then, Jamal Aldein presented his paper, which dealt with many of the stories and anecdotes in ages:
Arabs and the Umayyads (the recalcitrance of the Egyptians in the age of the governors).
Abbasids and revolutions and the Delta level (rebellions Alepeshmor).
Fatimids and protests.
Ayyubid protests and resistance literature and folk anecdotes.
Mamluk and protests Resistance Literature and folk anecdotes (Zahir Baybars, Ali Al-Zeibaq, 1000 night and a night, poets and writers in the literature of the Egyptian school protest).
Then, the interventions of the audience addressed to emphasize that most Arab rulers abused the Islamic religion and stressed the need to study some history of peoples in the region and not study the history of kings and governments to determine the fate of peoples in the future.
And then after the meeting, Dr. / Rauf Hyena - Professor of Sociology at the University of Sohag focused on the following points.
- Today's issue cannot be completed in hours, and black is the color that covered most of the stages of the dictators of the Arab invaders and non-Arab ones, but Egyptian peoples invented ways to resist.
- The right of farmers to own land as he made the world's civilization three thousand years BC.
- When the Egyptian farmers were able to save surplus agriculture originated trades and other professions in the different cities and on their shoulders.
- Arab tyrannical invaders who were against the progress of peoples but pays no attention but to taxes and levy and collect the money from the occupied peoples.
- It is hard for Egyptians to eat carrion, dogs,; because the ground has always put the good people of the alternatives we are not hungry.
- Confirmation of the famine and drought in the Nile and the lack of rainfall in the occasional periods in Egyptian history, and quickly ended the crisis, followed by periods of boom. - The great thinker Ibn Khaldun warned of the risks associated with falsification of history and the most important of these risks is the Sultan and dispersion.
- Successful tender and the Egyptian symbol of goodness and civilization, but no one can take it right to work for the expense of others throughout the long history so far.
- The arrival of the invaders to take the wheat from Egypt, whether Roman or Arab; nothing to do with religions, but has to do with theft and looting and violating the rights of people and wealth.
- Egyptians speak Arabic more accurately than Arabs of the island, because they are imbued with Islam as a religion and culture, and not as a source of racism.
- The movie "Rodda Qalby", who was offering the English days of the occupation of Egypt when Egyptians fulfilled their dreams when the poor access to land and their children entered the army and police, but today was stolen the dreams of the poor, cannot dream of under the national governments in such dreams because they are poor parents.
- Who's got the history of Egypt is now the new Pashas, who have lost their social or traders of foreign and Arab investors, today received a multi-national corporate clients from business people to wealth after having sold almost capabilities ~ nation has struggled throughout its history-making civilization.
- What do Egyptians eat today? Sour grapes and bitter and crabs …. Can we declare those responsible for that?.
- How can we resist all this injustice and tyranny to retrieve our dreams and our country safe?
He then concluded the session with a presentation summary recording the meeting, which stressed the need to use history as a pillar of resistance and struggle against tyranny and injustice at the moment.
The participants agreed on the need to hold and recurrence of these periodic meetings of their importance in the current experience to improve the conditions of our country and our lives.
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