Dirty DIIIIRTY Egyptians... (except Rami et al) part II

Salaam,

My visa was about to expire so I needed to go into central Cairo to extend this for another few months...I wanted to hide, it was that bad. Opposite the building was a big park which I have now officially called "Fitna Park" - basically lots of young'uns doing naughty things (yes, yes, I thought to myself, i'm sure they're all married, even though the average age of marriage here is 30+ for the guy...)

Then I went to eat in KFC whilst I waited to pick my passport. Sat in front of me was a family visiting Cairo (I think they were Russian). So anyway, im eating away, and in walks this guy, goes over to the family and starts shaking everyones hands, so I thought he must be their guide or something. Then he goes to shakes the mothers hand and then tries to kiss it and says something like "love me.." at which she grabs her hand back off him, then he leans over and tries to kiss the daughter at which she pulls her face back, and then he puts his hand out and tries to touch her...frontal area..and then he just walks out as if nothing happened.


Yes, I was VERY shocked at what had just happened. And the scarier thing was that this was in broad daylight, other people saw it, but NOTHING was said or done. OK, this might be an extreme example which I was unfortunate enough to witness but what the heck is going on...??!

Then there's the porn which is sold in broad daylight...yes...in central Cairo you get loads of these "newstands" where you have a guy sitting on the pavement with lots of bits and pieces, amongst them pornographic videos and magazines..

Then theirs the "Female Market"...their's an area called Mansour which is supposed to be the red-light district of Cairo and you get a lot of north African women literally being "sold" to men from the Gulf...(AH, the guy I know who's lived here for six years, went into more details but i'll save you from all that)


All this was toooo much for me take in..its all very depressing, very shocking, very saddening...but you really get an understanding of why the Muslims are in the mess their in when you come and visit some of these "Muslim" countries..

I really didn't wish to disclose much of the above but its getting absolutely ridiculous and wanted some of the readers to get a Real view of what the Middle-East is like. A lot of you might be thinking, like how I used to think, that it's too difficult to be a Muslim in the UK and that you want to emigrate to a "Muslim" country and life will all be rosy...think again. To be honest, bar Saudi Arabia (and we know what goes on there..) I don't think there is a country where this is possible. Plus, the Middle-East is developing/becoming western at an alarming rate so God knows how it'll be like in a few years. A brother was telling me about this guy he knew who had emigrated from the US with his family to settle in Egypt, but after four months went back as he said he feared more for his level of emaan and welfare of his kids in Egypt than in the US.

To be honest I feel the same. Obviously in the UK, US its worse in an absolute sense as you have pubs, clubs etc but I feel this affects me less as I always think to myself "they're kuffar, they know no better". Whereas in Egypt, Jordan, you cant say this as all the alcohol is being made by Muslims, sold by Muslims and then being drunk by Muslims, all the prostitutes and their users are all Muslim, and so on for the drugs, the fornication etc which makes me feel muuuch worse and thus has a bigger affect on my emaan.

I actually did think my time in Amman had helped wrt to emaan and so on as the area I lived in was very nice (due to it being full of western students) but any gain made I feel is quickly evaporating here in Cairo. This is why I was seriously thinking of coming back to the UK early (its THAT bad) but I've decided that im going to stick it out for another month inshaAllah.

I have been VERY one sided in the above - there's lots of good things about Egypt like...im sure there are, but anyway obviously problems in Cairo are much worse than the rest of the country. Last time I was here I visited Aswan and Luxor which were amazing and other coastal towns are supposed to be much more conservative. But the acuteness of the problem in Cairo is Very worrying and I think foretells a gloomy future for Egypt.

Remember me and the Egyptians in your duas as we desperately need them...

Salaam