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Great Expectations!

I am always wondering about us, the human beings and how we make life strange on planet Earth; I figured it out since many years ago and think this is directly proportional to how people interact with each other through different situations. Hereby in this 3^rd blog entry regarding this case, I am sharing my disappointment after 15 days of “murdering Marwa el-Sherbiny” in Germany.

I neither generalize nor exaggerate because this is unhealthy as I discussed in “De-Stereotyping the Image” post; however except few voices; the major silence of feminists and human rights activists is a notable issue, either globally or in Arab and Muslim world particularly.

Marwa el-Sherbini (left) Elwi Okaz (right) & Mustafa

I can – or may – understand if global activists ignore this but what about our dear locals? On the other hand, I also wonder about how the few voices either in blogs, reports and threads talked about everything but Marwa the person, so here I am – the man – shedding some lights on her in this blog entry.

Marwa: Who is Who

Marwa, the daughter of the chemist Ali el-Sherbini and Laila Shams, was born in Alexandria, Egypt on October 7, 1977. She finished high school in 1995 from Nasr Girls College (E.G.C.) in Alexandria where she was the head girl, a position that is very unique in the school similar to the head of a students union in any faculty.

After by, she joined Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Alexandria and in parallel, she was a member of the Egyptian National Handball Team during the period of 1992-1995.

Followed by her graduation as a pharmacist, she got married to Elwi Okaz, an assistant lecturer in the Institute of Genetic Engineering following Minufiya University in Egypt, and they got a baby named Mustafa. They moved to Germany on 2005 since Elwi was a doctoral candidate in Dresden’s Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics as he is researches in the field of genetics and their she got pregnant with her second unborn baby.

Bonjour, it is time to Wake-up

Here my friends, we are talking about a respectable, high-educated and ambitious family which has been destroyed forever by a “lone wolf” who intentionally killed Marwa and her unborn baby in front of her 3 years old Mustafa and her husband Elwi.

Marwa was younger than me with few months so I know how this is hard on me, even if I do not know them. In fact, my heart is broken for both of them since they witnessed her murder and I think any human being who still has some heart to feel is calling for her justice.

Consequently, I am again playing the what if game that irritates some people; I wonder what if she was an “honor killing victim” or “sexual harassment victim” or “oppressed veiled victim” as media usually express? Probably you would have been targeted by talk-shows, t-shirts and banners for advocating justice for the case of the poor thing! Consider this as my answer for the title of Zeinobia’s two weeks old article about Marwa.

Of course I am not supporting these crimes since they are neither human nor from Islam or any religion but honestly I am wondering about that silence which leads a man to write such a post, how come? My criticism is for opinions not persons so this has nothing to do with hate or love because this is irrelevant and hence nothing to end with except.

Updates

1. Muslima Media Watch’s article + comments about Marwa are worthy to check.
2. Edited to correct wrong information about Marwa according to what Ola – her friend and classmate – mentioned in her comments (see below)

Related Quotes and Sayings

Sympathy is what we need my friend, but where is it?! — Hicham

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