Watching the chaos in Egypt

I've been closely watching the news lately, especially since the uprising in Egypt. It was really amazing to watch so many people come to the streets and finally speak out against a dictator like Mubarak. He has been in power for 30 years and nobody has challenged him, even though he was basically taking the country down the gutter. I was listening to some analysis by Glenn Beck the guy who is famous for quite a lot of controversy. But he put it quite nicely, when he said that people hate America not because they have freedom and that they are non-Muslims. But they hate them because they are in bed with the dictators that run the Muslim countries. That is shows hypocrisy that on the one hand the west stands up for justice and human rights, then on the other they support cruel tyrants who torture and persecute their people. It doesn't make sense does it.

The people of Egypt seem like they have had enough and it is suprising that it has been peaceful protests and quite civilised. Before the pro-Mubarak protests started, everything was quite orderly and even they were showing ordinary civilians washing tahrir square and people cleaning up the place. It is quite a shame that everything was turned upside down since yesterday with the introduction of some thugs and mobs who have been hired by the government. They are desperate to see some kind of reversal in favour of Mubarak, but it seems quite unlikely. His days are numbered and tomorrow is the day, which will show which way this movement for democracy will go.

It just shows the power of the people, that they are the ones who can change their destiny. A quote from the Quran which we hear quite often is really strong that an Ummah will not change unless it's people change. What does that mean??? It means that if the people in a nation are not willing to want change, then their nation will not change. But if people are willing to sacrifice and to stand up against evil in their nation, then their nation will rise and become a nation of good. We see in every Muslim nation some kind of leadership problem. In some we see elections even being held, yet there is no change in sight. This is partly due to the ignorance of the people who think that change will be easy. Change just means a face change or shuffling of the decks. It requires a complete change of system, to root out corruption, to root out injustice and to put in place a true system which is in the interest of the people and nation. A system which is fair and doesn't allow some kind of dynasty. They shouldn't expect change to come from outside but from within. People of a nation are worth more than foreign aid or foreign support. Your people are the ones who hold the power and we can see that is the reason why no matter if you get a million man army to change a nation, it will fail if people are not siding with them. The same way a million man army in decades with trillion dollars cannot topple a regime or group, yet when the people rise they can topple the government within weeks with less expense and bloodshed.

I find it amazing that everybody can see how Ben Ali fled his country, how Shah of Iran fled his country and how Saddam met his fate.....yet Husni Mubarak and others still don't take any lesson from this. Don't they think one day they will be asked in their grave of how they used their rule and leadership? They remind me of the story of Pharoah, where arrogance stopped him from accepting the truth.

George Galloway puts everything in prospective...