Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Out of Context

A junkie young man entered a pharmacy in order to buy a cough medicine ,it seems that the Hashish crisis forced him to seek other alternatives. The pharmacist did not know the man before and went to get the medicine from the cabinet as usual but unfortunately when she turned back she found the man searching in her handbag for cash. When he found out that she was looking at him , he pulled a gun and opened his fire. Fortunately she survived the attack , she only had an external injury.
The junkie escaped from the pharmacy but of course the people outside the pharmacy in the street caught him and called the police.
Regardless of how bad the attack is and its social and criminal indications , do you find anything strange in this incident !!??
Already this incident happens several times in Egypt and even in the whole world , junkies desperate for any drug head to pharmacies and things get ugly. In normal circumstance this incident would not be taken out of its context regardless of how many times it was repeated till we got bored from.
Well Youm 7 has decided to add more spices to the news so it would be  interesting enough to make readers click the link : 
After the shooting incident in Asuit, the Muslim pharmacist's family believes that there is a mysterious motive in the incident , the witnesses relate it to the Islamic conversion of a Christian girl in another village and a source of in the church fears another crisis !
Of course I forget to tell you that the junkie who is a convicted criminal in Asuit is Christian and the pharmacist is Muslim because I believe it is irrelevant and I still believe so. This is a straight forward case a junkie wants to steal money , a theft incident which religion and gender do not play any role in it. If that Pharmacist were a Christian , he would have tried to shot her down and to steal her and vice versa !!
Already if you read the news , you will find it different from the headline !!
If Youm 7 wants more clicks , why not try to have more interesting topics and real exclusive scoops than trying to create a sectarian division in order to get more clicks and hateful comments !!??

4 comments:

  1. Its Pathetic Enough if "Youm 7" is doing this for More clicks...
    and its a total disaster if there's someone behind the curtain (Whether inside or outside Egypt) trying to make Egyptian Christians feel and look threatened. The Shootings on the last Christian Holiday and the Its Mysterious Connection with an NDP member comes readily to mind.

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  2. You're right, it is irrelevant, and its a shame the way the incident was portrayed in the publication.

    However, you should straighten out your drug misconceptions, not only is the "addiction" to hashish a purely psychological thing, but its one that never drives a person to commit such acts, nor will cough medicine be a suitable substitute.

    He may have been a junkie, but sure as hell not a "marijuana" junkie.

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  3. youm 7, if you noticed, had lately started publishing a serie of article written by unkown persons (but with high academic degrees:-)) to praise Hosni Mubarak and say how much they like him and love Egypt (that he apparently made a paradise of)

    It wasn't therefore strange for me to see them adding a religious dimension to stories where religion has no place just to show that there is an ascending religious extremism that needs from us to support the current regime and stop thinking of other "religious" alternatives :-)

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  4. @Anon: I agree that it seems he was on stronger addiction probably and for me addiction on any thing including drugs is a psychological problem above all
    Youm7 always finds a way to throw in the religion factor, real shame and no one is calling them out for it publicly, Z not included of course.
    The solution I guess from now on to ask citizens to commit crimes only against other citizens of the same religion :D

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