How some media & neighbouring countries are using the Pro-Democracy protesters for their own gain!

Many times today during the protest within Tahrir Square, feeling among the crowd went from happiness to total euphoria as rumour spread that Mubarak had stepped down from the position of President of Egypt. However, the celebrations were short lived as the spreading rumours were dispelled.

The leaders of the collective within Tahrir square, which is very much in the media eye, need to make a greater effort to deny the rumours being spread by some neighbouring Governments and journalists in TV, Radio, Print and online media, who claim that this is some sort of Arab uprising or Islamic take- over of the state and country.
Without a doubt these claims are totally self serving and in direct contradiction of the actual demographics on the ground in Cairo.

The leaders of Israel have wasted NO time in pointing out that the Muslim Brotherhood are involved and propagandising in their own favour, by creating a picture of total uprising and bloodshed throughout the Middle East.
The Egyptian Government have not denied this possibility and have used such scare mongering to frighten both, their own people and to use as an excuse to their partners in the West.

Along with this are some journalists who use very emotive terms such as Uprising, Islamic Awakening and Sectarian Division , in order to make otherwise dull or uninteresting blogs or newspaper articles appear more dramatic and thus more interesting to a wider audience, regardless of the harm their ramblings might bring upon the peaceful, human rights activists and democracy protesters in Tahrir square.

This is not a Movie, there is NO script, no Actors. It is very real and those who have lost their lives, are currently being mourned. The families of the deceased are suffering . Mothers, Fathers and children experiencing real and terrible pain. Those who have been injured are, and in some cases will continue to experience further pain and psychological scarring.

Everybody would agree that emotion can be a human flaw, and we get carried away at times with either raw emotion or excitement, often saying and doing things that we otherwise would never dream of.
However there are media outlets and indeed neighbouring governments that are purposely using emotive terms to further their ongoing arguments / Issues with some governments in the West, but in turn almost all sides are using the people of Tahrir Square as pawns.

As I have said before there is nothing romantic about being faced with government sponsored thugs charging at you with God knows what kind of weaponry, nothing COOL about facing the very thugs that before, and possibly after this period, may actually recognise you, as you go about your day to day business, whilst they are Policing the streets of Cairo. Nothing at all comforting about standing night after night in the cold and rain, only to see no gains at the barricades the following day.
Yet despite this, these people crave democracy so much, that they are willing to make that sort of sacrifice for the chance of a better life for them and their children.

It is therefore Shameful to use the people of Tahrir square to further some other agenda, remember that is exactly what the Men, Women and Children, Young, Middle aged and Old, Religious and secular are fighting against.


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