Religion has no role here and irrelevant, Tunisia was ruled by a tough secular regime for more than 50 years, a regime which was trying hard to copy the west , yet it didn’t achieve any prosperity, justice, job security...etc, but I have to admit, that regime has worked well to eliminate illiteracy, grant women rights and build a good infrastructure. The people of Tunisia are happier now and that what should really count.
History has shown a major intellectual centre in the heart of the Islamic empire called "House of Wisdom" where Jews ,Christians and Muslims were attending it, so science and religion can work hand in hand, science is for the brain and religion is for the heart, the core of all religions is the same, but people tend to forget that. At the moment there is a high illiteracy rate in the Islamic and Arab world, amongst the top 500 universities ,only 3 are from the Middle East ( 3 Saudi), not a single university from Egypt, Lebanon or Iraq, what a shame !
So it’s perfectly fine to elect extremists like the neocons or tea party , but it’s a taboo to elect Hamas or the Muslims brotherhood parties !?
There are many great Egyptians scientists like Nobel laureate in Chemistry Ahmed Zewail, economist Ibrahim Oweiss who is teaching here in Doha at Georgetown, Sir Magdi Yakoub (a devoted Christian) who is a cardio surgeon at the imperial college in London (Harefield hospital) or Osama El Baaz (lead scientist at NASA) and others , such brains should lead Egypt and the Arab world , only and only then things shall improve.
Stop blaming Aljazeera , Aljazeera didn’t torture , humiliate or incite any Egyptian or Arab,Aljazeera didn’t torture and beat Khalid Saaeed to death, their governments did. Aljazeera has fulfilled the gap and the absence of an informative and reputable news channels in the Middle East , am glad to see BBC Arabic back :)
Religion has no role here and irrelevant, Tunisia was ruled by a tough secular regime for more than 50 years, a regime which was trying hard to copy the west , yet it didn’t achieve any prosperity, justice, job security...etc, but I have to admit, that regime has worked well to eliminate illiteracy, grant women rights and build a good infrastructure. The people of Tunisia are happier now and that what should really count.
History has shown a major intellectual centre in the heart of the Islamic empire called "House of Wisdom" where Jews ,Christians and Muslims were attending it, so science and religion can work hand in hand, science is for the brain and religion is for the heart, the core of all religions is the same, but people tend to forget that. At the moment there is a high illiteracy rate in the Islamic and Arab world, amongst the top 500 universities ,only 3 are from the Middle East ( 3 Saudi), not a single university from Egypt, Lebanon or Iraq, what a shame !
So it’s perfectly fine to elect extremists like the neocons or tea party , but it’s a taboo to elect Hamas or the Muslims brotherhood parties !?
There are many great Egyptians scientists like Nobel laureate in Chemistry Ahmed Zewail, economist Ibrahim Oweiss who is teaching here in Doha at Georgetown, Sir Magdi Yakoub (a devoted Christian) who is a cardio surgeon at the imperial college in London (Harefield hospital) or Osama El Baaz (lead scientist at NASA) and others , such brains should lead Egypt and the Arab world , only and only then things shall improve.
Stop blaming Aljazeera , Aljazeera didn’t torture , humiliate or incite any Egyptian or Arab,Aljazeera didn’t torture and beat Khalid Saaeed to death, their governments did. Aljazeera has fulfilled the gap and the absence of an informative and reputable news channels in the Middle East , am glad to see BBC Arabic back :)