I agree with every single word! I've been stuck in bohemian Dahab for the past 3 months enjoying the scene ( why didn't I come here earlier is mind-boggling) and loving the fact Egyptians at least the majority here are laid back and living the way they want!! no one tells them don't do this or that. until this story happened and I remembered why the hell I decided to get the F out of here. Sadly bro this sick and retarded way of thinking that has been brewing since the late seventies with the rise of the beards and the Saudi funding that came along with it... ironically Saudi Arabia that actually bamboozled us have ditched this backward way of thinking ( my wife and I were visiting my mum in Saudi and even though I was born there I simply didn't recognize the country... tells you a lot).
Egypt was many things sadly!! you mention knowledge let me mention culture!! because the pop culture coming out of Egypt today is kin to a shitty river of sewage!! you might disagree with what I will say now, hell you might think I'm being a douchebag but I thought the music scene for example, and how shitty it is was due to the lower uneducated classes boy was I fucking wrong!!! did you know that "educated" people actually play that maharagan Garbage?! so if your educated class supports the spread of this cancer then it comes as no shock that we are the cesspool of the region!! thats one example amongst many...
I never bought into the "Egyptians are religious by nature " bs and in all honesty, these idiots hiding behind religion are the ones that need to be eradicated so this country can have a future. I'm sick and tired of people insisting el-Azhar doesn't need reform hell I think its time the elephant in the room is addressed. I am sick and tired of the ridiculous amount of religious programs here dedicated to answering the dumbest questions ever!!! I have no business with anyone doing whatever he or she wants, want to drink please do, want to fuck please do, want to tattoo every inch of your body please do, want to be a homosexual or atheist or whatever please do, why do we as a society concern our selves?!?!? why do we always use religion even though the same people who use religion don't follow its teachings? wherein Islam for example is it ok to be the guardian of heaven and hell?? wherein Islam is it acceptable to keep saying this person is so going to hell without any feelings of sympathy to the deceased parents!!! its DISGUSTING. you don't want to support her or her cause good for you, you don't want to wish her peace in her death please do but shut up and leave people the freedom to choose what they want with out being labeled.
so yeah there is no hope and sorry for the rant you did touch a nerve

p.s hope you are doing well bro: beer: