This is not about religion

The volatile Egyptian protests are now starting to boil with the announcement that Hosni Mubarak is not going to step down despite 30 years of mean police rule.

Because of this, Muslims and Christians in Egypt joined hands to show a force Mubarak could not ignore. Not anymore! No more! Such is their deep love for their country almost everyone: children, women, laborers, professionals; everyone, went out to make one big force to show their disgust for the widespread poverty, unemployment and corruption in the government.

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"That's why we have to destroy the system, which is based on the theory that people shouldn't speak out, that this country is their country, so it's not your right to ask. No, it is my right to ask you. If you're a minister, you are a civil servant, you are an employee of the government. With all due respect, my taxes pay for your salary." ~Wael Ghonim, Google executive & Egyptian protester

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But there is one touching scene I wish would happen not just in Egypt but also around the world: Christians forming a circle defending Muslims praying in Tahrir Square. Now, in return, Muslims are doing the same favor for the Christians who decided that doing prayers in the same square is a welcome option. Both the Christian cross and the Quran are raised together without fear, without prejudice, and sharing a common goal.

What a beautiful world.

Imagine.

Photo from Getty Images/AFP thru CNN

The funny side of the Egyptian revolution

Despite tension and risk of being caught within the bloody Egyptian revolution, some protesters came out funny by creating innovative ways to protect their heads from flying stones and other objects as pro- and anti-Mubarak demonstrators wage a fight against each other. MOVE OVER LADY GAGA!

Here are some of them-

Miguel Medina/AFP/Getty Images

Ben Curtis/AP

Hannibal Hanschke/EPA

Source: Makezine

And one of the most awesome act- Egyptian Christians guarding Egyptian Muslims while they were praying. What a moving picture!

Source: RagamuffinSoul: What The American Christian Can Learn From The Egyptian Christian

Hosni Mubarak cares for his country?

"I was very unhappy about yesterday; I do not want to see Egyptians fighting each other."

"I don't care what people say about me. Right now I care about my country, I care about Egypt." (Mubarak in an interview with Amanpour's CNN)

 All pics grabbed from msnbc.msn.com

For the Egyptians and the rest of the world

Kiss of the Egyptian Mother

by Richard R. Gappi

As I saw you planting a kiss on a soldier’s cheek
your son joining the plank of anti-riot policemen
a twig of some sort grew out of the scene
reaching out to me.
I heard a melodic song tugging at my heart
like words from your mouth whispering.

What is it in you, your kiss?
These lips turned pale by starvation, by abuses
Aren’t those the lips that cradle a baby to sleep
to forgo his evening meal, to ease his hunger pains?
But now those lips have become a window
the world sees through
and feel the fire in Cairo.

Now those lips are calling
for a new breed of species
for the land of Egypt to sprout
a brand new laurel in its forest.

A faraway kiss from your lips
reaching out to me
like I’m in Egypt from somewhere.

(Translation/Adaptation by Angelo Ancheta
February 1, 2011)

Thank you Richard Gappi for the poem; CNN and MSNBC for the pics above.