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Apprendo da Mantellini (mea culpa, ma la nostalgia tende a farmi tenere spenta la blogosfera egiziana) dell’arresto di un blogger egiziano e rimango basita: non era mai successo in Egitto e non certo perché mancassero blogger critici: io ho linkato alcune volte Mohammed, ma ce ne sono tanti altri e di ogni colore.

Rimango basita soprattutto per la motivazione: “l’opposizione di Karim al fondamentalismo islamico.”
In Egitto??
Ma se le carceri e le fosse egiziane ne sono zeppe, di fondamentalisti islamici, e periodicamente ne arrestano a gruppi di centinaia!

Poi, invece, leggo questo e la cosa mi torna un po’ di più:

This arrest no doubt comes in the context of the recent sectarian riots between Copts and Muslims in Alexandria. This blogger is Muslim and a student at Al Azhar. In recent weeks his blog has been devoted to events in Alexandria and has included several rather scathing attacks on those Muslims who had rallied against the controversial play.

State Security likely arrested him as a precautionary move. Someone like Kareem Amer does not fit the mold, and this always makes state security nervous. Amer wasn’t arrested because of what he was writing. He was arrested because of who he is. Had he been a Copt railing against Muslim extremism it would never have caught state security’s attention. But because he’s Muslim and an Azhari, he is more dangerous. Amer was arrested because state security doesn’t want to have to deal with the fall out if some radical decides to stab him for his inflammatory writings.

Mi torna perché il “Primo: non creare problemi” è un comandamento molto egiziano, in effetti, e per quello che so io della polizia egiziana, la sola idea che questo blogger potesse infiammare gli animi già abbastanza infiammati di Alessandria deve essere stata una ragione più che sufficiente per volergliene fare passare la voglia.
E’ “security”, la parola chiave, non religione.

Miss Mabrouk presenta un po’ il polso della situazione:

Many says Seliman’s writing is so radical and offensive that he doesn’t deserve the support of the bloggers who are spreading the words about the detention, the first security clamp-down on a blogger in the country.

E, tuttavia, citando Baheyya:

it seems to me counterproductive to traffic in unsubstantiated theories and rumours, or to reflexively sensationalise this as an Iranian-style ‘crackdown on bloggers,’ or to bicker about whether Abdel Karim’s views are “representative” or worth defending. This is basic: a person’s views are never the issue when it comes to arbitrary and unlawful detention.

E Tarek:

I’ve visited his blog before and I do really disagree with his writings about Islam; however I still cannot find any reason for arresting someone for what he says or writes. And for those who think that he should be arrested for offending Islam, I believe that arresting him is more offending to Islam.

Quindi, ricapitolando: non pare avere attaccato il fondamentalismo islamico, questo blogger, ma l’Islam in sé.
Così facendo ha irritato alcune frange di iper-religiosi nella già incandescente Alessandria e la spiccia polizia egiziana ha tagliato la testa al toro e se l’è portato via.

Questo è quanto ho capito io.

E mi dispiace molto: non diventa più democratico, il mondo.
Decisamente no.