Meet Asmaa Mahfouz and the vlog that Helped Spark the Revolution

[kpete]

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Video said to have helped trigger massive anti-Mubarak protests

By Eric W. Dolan
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2011 -- 10:44 am


Video said to have helped trigger massive anti Mubarak protestsAn impassioned speech on human rights by Egyptian activist Asmaa Mahfouz lad thousands of protesters to gather in Cairo's Tahrir Square on January 25, sparking a widespread movement against President Hosni Mubarak.


"Don't think you can be safe any more," Mahfouz said in her video, which was posted on Facebook January 18. "None of us are. Come down with us and demand your rights, my rights, your family's rights. I am going down on January 25th, and will say 'No to corruption. No to this regime.'"



"Whoever says women shouldn't go to protests because they will get beaten, let him have some honor and manhood and come with me on January 25th," Mahfouz continued. "Whoever says its not worth it because there will be only a handful of people, I want to tell him, you are the reason behind this. And you are a traitor, just like the president or any security cop who us in the streets."

"Sitting at home and just following us on news or Facebook leads to our humiliation. If you have honor and dignity as a man, come. Come and protect me, and other girls in the protest. If you stay at home, then you deserve all that's being done to you. And you will be guilty, before your nation and your people. And you'll be responsible for what happens to us on the street while you sit at home."

"Instead of setting ourselves on fire, let us do something positive," she added. "God says that He 'will not change the condition of a people until they change what is in themselves. '"

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/02/video-trigger-massive-protests-egyptian-regime/

[thereismore]

1. A wonderful, brave woman. nt

[Charleston Chew]

2. Great Post!

thanks for shareing