The Blessed Prayers Are Over and We Have Begun

Entry 29

4 February 2011, 1:20 pm

The square is now at its maximum even before the expected people who are expected to be coming in shortly, from different parts of Cairo, after Friday prayers. The protestors did the Friday prayers in separate groups of 100 or more because there were few microphones available making it difficult to group the entire square in united prayers.

All entrances to the square are controlled by heavy army check points that ensure that all those entering into the square are unarmed. The singing and chanting has already begun and the chants have gotten creative. There is no violence as of yet.

Translating the chants is difficult but I will transcribe here for those who understand Arabic:

“7aloo ya 7aloo, Mubarak Sha3boo 7aloo” and “Ya Balad Ya Balad, Sha3bik El 7or Biyitwalad”

Roughly the first chant changes a popular Ramadan song into a rhyme about Mubarak being removed by his people. The second says “Oh country, Oh country, Your free citizens are being born”

The demands are simple. He leaves, we leave.

Again, the writer of this blog has not seen television channels covering the situation since this blog has started on the 2^nd of February. This measure was taken to ensure that the accounts are purely those of witnesses on the ground without a “Middle Man’s” analysis or bias. Like a sequestered Jury, without the judgment, what you see here is only eye witness accounts

PLEASE READ ENTRY 17 or Entry 10 or THE FIRST ENTRY OF THIS BLOG FOR BACKGROUND

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