In a program held by Freidrich, Egypt Stiftung directed to prepare social leaders. There were 57 participants came from all around Egypt to achieve "Social equality". I reached the meeting point 40 minutes before the estimated time to find the bus that was meant to carry us to another city. I noticed two girls inside then waved to them and asked if they were part of the program and they said yes. Then I asked if I could get into the bus since the whether in Cairo was hot and I would need to wait for full 40 minutes, they refused and said the driver ordered them not to allow anyone in. I said it was fine and asked where they were from hoping they would say Cairo so I could ask what the person could do in 40 minutes time in this early morning
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In the interview, they asked me "Why weren't you convinced by the idea of religions back then and are you religious now?" I said " I am Muslim now yes but I still find that our texts should have new interpretations. What made me think of leaving religions back then is that I am homosexual and I couldn't understand why God would create me this way then punish me for it." Suddenly , their faces turned from smiling white to burning red with the most poker faces I ever saw in my life. They were speechless for a while before one of them started talking saying," you might be wrong , you might have misdiagnosed yourself!" I told myself," Omar, don't be sad, you, of course, might be wrong, but your only mistake is that you believed that there's a room for social equality in our country." The interview ended really quick and of course, I was refused.
In a workshop held by UNICEF Egypt for medical students about street children and how to train social workers on delivering the information to children. There was a special session about HIV and stigma. After the session, an HIV positive person entered the room. I went to shake hands with him since I knew him before the training and we began to talk. My colleagues then came and shook hands with us. By chance, one of them knew he was an HIV carrier so he went, washed his hands and covered it with a plastic bag before …show more content…
And we saw ants and apple and sweets represent the woman or let's say the female body. The religious people began to attack everyone who talked about personal freedom, refusing in every single way any trial to show that the reason for harassment is the mentalities of the doers not the clothes of the victims.
With the "Anti-niqab" campaigns we found our brothers in religion running to search in personal freedom definitions about the freedom of choosing clothes and none of them tried to prove their point of view from the Quran texts! Now they respected the freedom of choice and evaluated it when it matched with their beliefs. As if freedom was conditioned by their personal orientations refusing what they want to refuse and run after it when they need it.
In a discussion ring with Dr. Nawal Alsadawi, she was talking about the 25th Jan revolution and that she went to Tahrir square to talk to the youth about human rights and to assure women's rights. They listened to her then said,"it's not the right
In the interview, they asked me "Why weren't you convinced by the idea of religions back then and are you religious now?" I said " I am Muslim now yes but I still find that our texts should have new interpretations. What made me think of leaving religions back then is that I am homosexual and I couldn't understand why God would create me this way then punish me for it." Suddenly , their faces turned from smiling white to burning red with the most poker faces I ever saw in my life. They were speechless for a while before one of them started talking saying," you might be wrong , you might have misdiagnosed yourself!" I told myself," Omar, don't be sad, you, of course, might be wrong, but your only mistake is that you believed that there's a room for social equality in our country." The interview ended really quick and of course, I was refused.
In a workshop held by UNICEF Egypt for medical students about street children and how to train social workers on delivering the information to children. There was a special session about HIV and stigma. After the session, an HIV positive person entered the room. I went to shake hands with him since I knew him before the training and we began to talk. My colleagues then came and shook hands with us. By chance, one of them knew he was an HIV carrier so he went, washed his hands and covered it with a plastic bag before …show more content…
And we saw ants and apple and sweets represent the woman or let's say the female body. The religious people began to attack everyone who talked about personal freedom, refusing in every single way any trial to show that the reason for harassment is the mentalities of the doers not the clothes of the victims.
With the "Anti-niqab" campaigns we found our brothers in religion running to search in personal freedom definitions about the freedom of choosing clothes and none of them tried to prove their point of view from the Quran texts! Now they respected the freedom of choice and evaluated it when it matched with their beliefs. As if freedom was conditioned by their personal orientations refusing what they want to refuse and run after it when they need it.
In a discussion ring with Dr. Nawal Alsadawi, she was talking about the 25th Jan revolution and that she went to Tahrir square to talk to the youth about human rights and to assure women's rights. They listened to her then said,"it's not the right