Egyptian Blogger Quits

Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 9:24:05 am PDT

To use the vernacular, this really sucks; the Egyptian Sandmonkey is calling it quits, out of fear for his safety in Egypt. A very ominous development.

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.

The United States continues to give Egypt more than $2 billion a year in foreign aid, so that they can make backroom deals with the Muslim Brotherhood and repress free speech.