Why our minds are Twisted? By:Mosaad Ghoneim Our Egypt Editor Dear Noura, I have read your bitter article! Every word of it had reached my mind and soul, simply because you have succeeded in transferring your disappointment and pain to me. Your words were simple but touching, your soul was transparent and beautiful. I think you are an excellent writer. As for my comment on the case of Egypt as you analyzed, I would agree with you 100%, yet I may add little bet deeper analysis. The politics, greed and wealth are just symptoms of a deeper disease; that is the foundation and structure of the Arabic-Islamic mind. How this mind works, is the source of all what you have described and frightened your young innocent soul. In short, that mind is basically associated the “Fiqh فقه” where it always measures every new to the old traditional legacies. Thus, it is always backward. Such trend was not the case all over the first few centuries of the Islamic empire where they translated the Greek philosophy and invented algebra (Alghwarismy). After that, few religious minds got the control over the Arabic mind and manipulate it for the sake of the poltics. Such minds are twisted and had nothing to do with the scientific thinking, so they can prove the one thing is black, and if you want they prove it white! And it is easy, all what you do is to interpret the meaning in any twisted context that serve your purpose. So, simply, the root cause of the tragedy you have seen in Egypt is the absence of the scientific mind, the mind that the west has discovered very recently since Francis Bacon in the 17th century. Now you can imagine how long it is to catch up with the scientific mind! .......... Dear Uncle Mosaad,      Thank you so much for your response. It is nice to see somebody actually understand the faults and criticisms the Egyptian people fail to see. I agree with you all the way with the additional comments you have made and the historical evidence that you have provided to me has only opened my eyes more to the root of this problem. I am very happy that you have taken time to read my writing, it really means a lot as a young writer still learning. Thank you for contributing to my knowledge even more and it should very well help me in the future.   My Thoughts From Egypt Why our minds are Twisted? 09/21/2014 مصرنا ©