YOU HAVE TO TALK

You have to learn to talk with people who disagree with you. It is not possible to shoot everyone who disagrees with you. Sitting in the street will eventually destroy a country or a city because it stops the normal commerce necessary for living.

I may have misread the New York Times, but it seems like the Egyptian generals are asking for permission to start a repression of the Muslim Brotherhood. Personally, I think Sharia law is a way to repress modern political thought.

I am asking all people in Egypt to TALK to each other. I am also asking the people of Egypt to recognize that ALL people have a right to think the way they want to think. It is possible to use the normal laws against violence to arrest the people who resort to violence.

Egypt is not Syria. Assad wants power so badly that he is willing to destroy his county in order to have power. No leader in Egypt has done that.

There are rules about reaching a consensus decision. One of my favorite is to have a debate where a representative of every faction gets to state their position. This should include those people who are not normally invited to speak but who have a group point of view. Then the moderator can get people to talk about their view of the country and a discussion of how to resolve the differences can begin.

I will also advise you that educating women is the key to having young people who can compete in the modern world, because education begins with parental teaching.