Hassan's market and the economic crisis  

Once upon a time, in a faraway village called Al Eiman. The farmers living there used to get up every morning to plant seeds, irrigate the land and harvest crops, and at night they go back to their homes, tired but happy. Life was simple, you can sense purity and happiness in everything everywhere. Grandfathers would tell stories to their grandchildren about the values of work, truth, dignity, hope, struggle, cooperation, sacrifice, peace and love. Al Eiman village was living in peace for centuries.
One day, the village people were surprised with Hassan Al Bulgha returning to the village after the village people threw him out of it many years ago for lying and spreading meanings that would destroy their simple lives, like hypocrisy, fraud, corruption, bribery and cowardness. The people were surprised with him coming back with an army of thugs riding dozens of trucks. The cars stopped at the house of the village mayor sheikh Mahrous who is also sheikh of the village mosque. They called him out and when he saw Hassan, he knew that something bad will happen.
Hassan convinced the mayor –by force- that he wanted to build a big market in the village and develop it by paving the roads, connect the village with public services, build a factory for cattle food, a fertilizer factory, a milk factory and a factory for agrarian products, and reclaim the fallow lands in the village. Hassan said that he will eliminate underdevelopment and make Al Eiman village shine. The mayor told Hassan that the village is doing fine without all of this, but the thugs threatened the mayor that they will set fire to the village houses and ruin the crops if he didn't cooperate with them.
Within two years, Al Eiman village became the most famous village in the area, as people came to from the surrounding villages to work in the farms and factories owned by Hassan.
One day, the thugs went to the market to collect their share of the day's profit, and the tradesmen were disagreeing on how much they should pay them this time, the situation developed into an argument, then to a fights, which resulted into shooting one of the tradesmen. His relatives and friends gathered to take his revenge, which resulted into a bloodbath. The village people gathered aroung to watch this very strange sight, and a mislead shot ended into the chest of the village mayor. The village people were so furious that they fought the thugs without weapons. The leader of the thugs sent for reinforcements and more armed men who killed everyone they saw. Twenty thousand people died that day, only fifty men of the village people were a live, while the rest were women, children and one old man. The fifty men escaped from the village after swearing to have revenge of Hassan and his men and free their village.
The fifty men started kidnapping and killing the thugs one by one, until they were able to capture the rest of the thugs and free their village, by then they were thirty men.
The village people gathered the thugs for trial. The thirty men made the thugs ask the village people for mercy, as they were the one who were going to determine their fate. The trial took days, as the village people were deciding many punishments other than death, like working for 20 hours a day and having less than 3 hours of sleep for the rest of their lives, and they are going to be working only for food and shelter, and some people demanded that they be deprived of food, just like they did to them, as they used to throw milk in the river to deprive the people from it and store meat and bread to increase its prices. Some people demanded their death without trial, and others demanded to imprison them for life and torture them everyday.
During the trial, one of them said "what would sheikh Mahrous have done in this situation? We would be just like them if we treated them the same way. The best punishment is to make them work in the village, but as normal people, for normal hours and get paid for it. This way, they would know what it feels like to work for an honest living. And we need all the people we could find to rebuild the village. Let them learn the real values of life. We want our village to be free of the diseases of lying, the and market values."