Asma Al Ghoul's blog on his blog criticizes Hamas and solidarity with the protesters in the Maghreb. It happens in Gaza, where Asma Al Ghoul, a journalist and blogger for 28 years, challenges the fundamentalist culture. In 2003 she married for love with an Egyptian poet, had a son and divorced in 2006 and then to decide to abandon the veil, maximum affront to Islamic culture.
Asthma is one of the few women in the Gaza Strip, which also fights online his battle against the violence of the government, the corruption of Fatah and the rights of women. Solidarity Network in return receive death threats and even offline the hands of his uncle, military leader of the fundamentalist group.
Its position has worsened as a result of the support to the Egyptian Revolution and its bloggers. Asthma has claimed that support for the arrest and police beating women. "When I opened my blog in 2008 only posted the articles I wrote in the newspaper I worked for the local Arab, Al Ayyam - explains Asma -.
The following year I used it instead to write a journal about what readers would never have read. And I love the opportunity to receive immediate feedback. I want to give voice to religious taboos that prevent women from smoking the hookah or cycling, to denounce the abuses of Hamas ", says the blogger.
"It 's hard, the police checks. On the contrary, it is much easier to start a blog to criticize the Israeli occupation. In that case, no one will be looking for you. " Asthma now lives in Gaza City with his family and his son Nasser, after divorcing her husband who live in Europe. Even those who live close to it under the 'Big Brother' of Muslims: "Last December my brother was arrested for protesting against the closure of Sharek Youth Forum, an organization sponsored by the UN that deals with the Palestinians in refugee camps.
On 31 January I have to stop playing in the streets in support of Egyptian bloggers and against the regime of Mubarak. In the barracks I was beaten for not wearing the hijab (Islamic veil, ed) and released after seven hours. They wanted my father, a professor of engineering at the Islamic University of Gaza, would prevent me from writing.
They asked me to leave the blog, the police law and considered dangerous. " It was in Gaza, however, the hospital 'Mubarak' was renamed 'Tahrir', the square symbol of the revolt in Egypt. Why, then, Hamas has arrested those who were protesting? "No one had to stand before a victory or a definitive defeat of Mubarak - the young woman continues -.
If we had celebrated in the days before his fall and in the end he had resisted, it would be avenged. The cowards of Hamas were only waiting for a sure winner before moving, whoever he was. " Asma Al Ghoul does not believe that the wave of revolutions of the Maghreb will inspire even the wind of change in Gaza: "Egypt wanted to overthrow a dictatorship, it was clear the enemy and their purpose.
But here we have two targets to be killed: Hamas and Israel - says the blogger -. The fundamentalists are still very strong and even the Muslim Brotherhood is planning to ignore the peace treaties of Oslo and Camp David. " According to the Asthma problem to be addressed in the Maghreb will transition to the formation of new governments, however, will not be democratic.
"As a dreamer and blogger is hard to admit. We can change the leader but not the philosophy of the corruption that is entrenched. The other countries in revolt, from Libya to Jordan, have produced 'copies' of the Egyptian Revolution, without creating their own 'original'. The democratic process will not be the result of these revolutions.
" And despite the blocks ordered by Mubarak and Gaddafi, the network was a crucial tool for the widespread dissemination of the revolt: "If I had to rank - concludes Asthma - give priority to Facebook and blogs, followed by YouTube and Twitter. Here in Gaza the spread of social media is beginning, but in Egypt are more advanced.
And to think that the web censorship in Tunisia during the regime of Ben was relentless, even worse than in Gaza. There was hard to even think of starting a blog. " 
Asthma is one of the few women in the Gaza Strip, which also fights online his battle against the violence of the government, the corruption of Fatah and the rights of women. Solidarity Network in return receive death threats and even offline the hands of his uncle, military leader of the fundamentalist group.
Its position has worsened as a result of the support to the Egyptian Revolution and its bloggers. Asthma has claimed that support for the arrest and police beating women. "When I opened my blog in 2008 only posted the articles I wrote in the newspaper I worked for the local Arab, Al Ayyam - explains Asma -.
The following year I used it instead to write a journal about what readers would never have read. And I love the opportunity to receive immediate feedback. I want to give voice to religious taboos that prevent women from smoking the hookah or cycling, to denounce the abuses of Hamas ", says the blogger.
"It 's hard, the police checks. On the contrary, it is much easier to start a blog to criticize the Israeli occupation. In that case, no one will be looking for you. " Asthma now lives in Gaza City with his family and his son Nasser, after divorcing her husband who live in Europe. Even those who live close to it under the 'Big Brother' of Muslims: "Last December my brother was arrested for protesting against the closure of Sharek Youth Forum, an organization sponsored by the UN that deals with the Palestinians in refugee camps.
On 31 January I have to stop playing in the streets in support of Egyptian bloggers and against the regime of Mubarak. In the barracks I was beaten for not wearing the hijab (Islamic veil, ed) and released after seven hours. They wanted my father, a professor of engineering at the Islamic University of Gaza, would prevent me from writing.
They asked me to leave the blog, the police law and considered dangerous. " It was in Gaza, however, the hospital 'Mubarak' was renamed 'Tahrir', the square symbol of the revolt in Egypt. Why, then, Hamas has arrested those who were protesting? "No one had to stand before a victory or a definitive defeat of Mubarak - the young woman continues -.
If we had celebrated in the days before his fall and in the end he had resisted, it would be avenged. The cowards of Hamas were only waiting for a sure winner before moving, whoever he was. " Asma Al Ghoul does not believe that the wave of revolutions of the Maghreb will inspire even the wind of change in Gaza: "Egypt wanted to overthrow a dictatorship, it was clear the enemy and their purpose.
But here we have two targets to be killed: Hamas and Israel - says the blogger -. The fundamentalists are still very strong and even the Muslim Brotherhood is planning to ignore the peace treaties of Oslo and Camp David. " According to the Asthma problem to be addressed in the Maghreb will transition to the formation of new governments, however, will not be democratic.
"As a dreamer and blogger is hard to admit. We can change the leader but not the philosophy of the corruption that is entrenched. The other countries in revolt, from Libya to Jordan, have produced 'copies' of the Egyptian Revolution, without creating their own 'original'. The democratic process will not be the result of these revolutions.
" And despite the blocks ordered by Mubarak and Gaddafi, the network was a crucial tool for the widespread dissemination of the revolt: "If I had to rank - concludes Asthma - give priority to Facebook and blogs, followed by YouTube and Twitter. Here in Gaza the spread of social media is beginning, but in Egypt are more advanced.
And to think that the web censorship in Tunisia during the regime of Ben was relentless, even worse than in Gaza. There was hard to even think of starting a blog. "
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