Sandmonkey is quitting blogging.
One of the chief reasons is the fact that there has been too much heat around me lately. I no longer believe that my anonymity is kept, especially with State Secuirty agents lurking around my street and asking questions about me since that day. I ignore that, the same way I ignored all the clicking noises that my phones started to exhibit all of a sudden, or the law suit filed by Judge Mourad on my friends, and instead grew bolder and more reckless at a time where everybody else started being more cautious. It took me a while to take note of the fear that has been gripping our little blogsphere and comprehend what it really means. The prospects for improvment, to put it slightly, look pretty grim. I was the model of caution, and believing in my invincipility by managing not to get arrested for the past 2 and a half years, I’ve grown reckless. Stupid Monkey. Stupid!
He apologizes and thanks his readers ….
You gave a damn about a bunch of egyptians who had a dream to be free and stood by us in our houres of need. For that you are my heroes, and I can not possibly thank you enough.
I believe this is what happens when the world’s only superpower, the United States, appears weak to the world. Our enemies are emboldened and our friends are afraid. Some Americans throw around words like fascism and nazis to describe the United States government. They are ignorant and do not understand the dangerous world in which we live.
None of them have been prosecuted for speaking out on international television against our government, much less for keeping a quiet blog speaking out for the desire for freedom.
I’ve read Sandmonkey’s blog since I first started blogging. This makes me incredibly sad. Good luck Sandmonkey. Keep your head low and stay safe.
h/t LGF
Egyptian bloggers arrested …..
Egypt blogger jailed for ‘insult’
An Egyptian court has sentenced a blogger to four years’ prison for insulting Islam and the president.
Abdel Kareem Soliman’s trial was the first time that a blogger had been prosecuted in Egypt.
He had used his web log to criticise the country’s top Islamic institution, al-Azhar university and President Hosni Mubarak, whom he called a dictator.
Egypt releases blogger jailed for 45 days after ‘insulting’ President
Egyptian authorities have ordered the release of an award-winning blogger and activist, imprisoned 45 days ago on charges including insulting the President.
Alaa Seif al-Islam, 24, who was arrested at a pro-reform demonstration on 7 May, had drawn the ire of the authorities for his provocative weblog and taking part in banned street protests. He is expected to be released from the Tora prison in Cairo today.
The release comes after a turbulent period of protest and violence in Egypt. Practically all groups opposed to President Hosni Mubarak, including the Muslim Brotherhood and secular groups such as Kifaya! (Enough!) and Youth for Change have had members beaten. Hundreds have been arrested.
Alaa’s wife, Manal, with whom he runs the website Manalaa.net, which won an award from the media freedom group Reporters Without Borders, said after the decision: “There’s no going back now, we’ll definitely be continuing our activities.”
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Beth - We staged out of Cairo when flying in the Gulf War and to Somalia, and we were never treated more nicely by the Egyptians while being housed in the Forte Grand and Movenpick Hotels. Their security was second-to-none as well and we ‘indidel crusaders’ made some great friends while we flew in and out of Cairo. Frau Vader misses the perfume oils and cartouches. Visiting their museums and tourist sites were a privilege and most unforgetable. All Egyptians aren’t Islamomaniac terrorists and what a beautiful ‘infidel’ experience!
BSC: Darth, that makes me so sad. We are so wrong to behave so weakly. Who will stop the bullies of the world if we abdicate and start acting fwench? Who will help the fwench of the world?
Open Trackback Weekend #51…
Well, here it is the weekend already! Just leave a post and I’ll be sure to send a reciprocal ping your way….
Beth…As red, white and blue as my heart beats every second of every minute… of every day, the USA is not the world’s ‘Domino Pizza Delivery Police Officers.’ Our own political prostitutes in power don’t let our fighting forces FIGHT like the lions we used to be in World War II. The world, except for Austrailia and the Brits and a few former Iron Bloc Warsaw Pact countries, has shunned us and wants the ROMAN EMPIRE to fall…again! You know this, I know this and our enemies in the Europeon Union, Arabia, Russia, and the Middle East know this.
PS: Patriette Beth…I don’t just want to stop the Islamomaniac and Russian KGB bullies of the world…I want to eliminate each and every one of them…but we have to fight by BS rules of engagement and they do not! Since WHEN do Islamomaniacs fight in a uniform…or fly a banner…? The world could crush radical Islam in an instant, but the world wants us to fall and perish, and Israel as well…It’s that simple! If you read the Holy Bible you’ll realize that history repeats itself…We didn’t finish Iraq off in the first Gulf War and sadly now we are paying a heavy price.
The challenge is to try and keep guys like the monkey talking.
I don’t want to even get started on how I feel about the damage that Democrats and the liberal mdedia in the US have done to my children’s and grandchildren’s chances of living in a peaceful America.
Egyptian Sandmonkey quits blogging…
My preferred Egyptian blogger, Sandmonkey, quits fearing for his security after he blogged about a demonstration some weeks ago….
That is very scary.
BFF,
Miss T
Sandmonkey… If you cant handle the heat……
The fact that Sandmonkey has stopped blogging has been receiving massive amounts of blog publicity such as here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here.
Apparently he fears the Egyptian authorities are on his back…
…+ Damascus +… then … + Tehran +… then … + radical
moo slime +… ! The USA has 77% Christians and only 1% Muslims so if the evil Islamomaniacs want a confrontation … I love OUR chances! “They say you wanna revolution / crusade.. it’s all right…it’s all right… it’s all righteous!” I love the smell of dead Islamomaniacs in the morning…it smells like - VICTORY!