I left behind an authoritarian state to move to the US. Now I see my new home falling to the same dark forces | Mona Eltahawy

“WThe hat does now? “My parents live in Cairo while I am in New York City. Abdul Fahia Al -SisiAnd that Trump calls “my favorite dictator”. Are we the lucky Egyptian Americans-Dictator for every aspect of connection?

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I moved to the United States from Egypt In 2000, I spent the past 25 years in watching the United States turning to Egypt – from the infringement of the state’s strength to the growing role of religion in politics.

After every farce – the lies that were used to invade Iraq, the intolerance that destroyed the rights of abortion, the weapon and financing of the genocide of Israel for the Palestinians in Gaza – I thought: “In any minute now, there will be a revolution, things will burn.”

Here, Trump, the ingenuity of that state authority in a system, as is the case with the regime in Egypt, Targeting cultureEducation, media, judges, students, and any group or entity that constitutes a threat, or even the capabilities of the opposition to the regime. I am still awaiting the revolution.

I know now, after I lived in the United States for more than two decades, that most of the eggs in this country prefer to hear comparisons with Russia or Hungary more than Egypt or a place led by black or brown tyranny, because even the ultravia is separated along the racist lines.

I joined Trump’s fight protest in New York City earlier this month, which was said with others across the country, The biggest protest for one day Since Trump returns to the White House. The signs of Trump and his billionaire owner Elon Musk were smart and there were dogs wearing coats saying “I bite the fascists”, but the anger remained at home. The revolutions need a foot on the ground, yes. But they also need anger, and a lot of it.

White Americans are the largest voting bloc and the most responsibility for bringing Trump to power in both cases – and they are less angry. The whiteness privilege means that for many in the United States, the loss of rights only occurs for people who are not white, in a far place, in places like Egypt. Only black and brown people in distant countries end up to an authoritarian ruler. However, if there is anything, as the Trump regime takes the United States worse without limits than what is happening in Egypt, because Egypt’s imprint on the world is almost harmless like the United States. This is why I am angry at the lack of anger.

White people in the United States have a degree of fake confidence in their government and institutions. They are naive to believe that institutions will save them from authoritarian power. This stubborn belief in their investment is subject to the refusal to see the fascism that Trump brought when he was first elected and that it is now low. It is not such black delusions, indigenous people and colored people. They do not expect institutions to protect them because they are often hurt by those institutions. For people like me and others who lived and survived the tyranny, the power and institutions of the white state have always been working like the regime – so we are well aware of anything that politicians say.

Regardless of the number of times among us from the authoritarian countries, who know that they are skeptical in governmental authority, and those who fought fascism – whether it was implemented through military rule or the rule of religious fundamentalists – warned and warned against the white in the United States, they shook their heads brilliantly and said that it could not happen here. Because the United States resembles a teenager who is stubbornly determined in self -destruction.

In Egypt, when I met officials from the Muslim Brotherhood – the Islamists who were the most powerful opposition to Egypt – about their policies, their answer will always be “Islam is the solution.” Their goal was to create an Islamic state. Although the group briefly ruled Egypt after the 2011 revolution before it was overthrown by Sisi, in its dreams in the fiercest dreams, the Muslim Brotherhood imagined the destiny of strength like the white Christian nationalists in the United States, who is Christianity is the declared solution that creates a white Christian state in the strongest country in the world.

If the house “I want a Crusader campaign and I have enough Crusader Crusaders to win,” Higseth was a Muslim, and the United States has invaded his country to save the “free world” from his jihad. It is easy to see theocratic when the thick and fatigue does not resemble you.

The American media managed to report the roads carried out by the Muslim Brotherhood by politicizing religion and weapons. But they failed to bring the same urgency to politicize Christianity in the United States, especially by white Christian nationalists who played a fundamental role in bringing Trump to power. White and Christians are considered virtual-the non-harmful base-in the white-dominated news rooms in the United States.

As a feminist, I feel angry in particular about the inability of the American media, as well as many eggs in general, to find out what religion has done for women in the United States. During this term, Trump has so far renewed any diversity initiatives, property rights and integration Federal financing has been banned For abortion services. During his first term, he appointed three judges from the conservative Supreme Court, which Reversal From Roe V Wade and remove federal protection for abortion rights, which means that individual countries can prohibit abortion. These policies have been promoted by some white women, who work as soldiers in the white, white Patriarchate. For example, women who have helped destroy, examine and ill of miscarriage are rarely analyzed in the way in which Muslim women are located.

Living in the United States may extremely. Over the past 25 years, my anger has been in The parents sponsored by the state In both countries, chaos in feminism. The feminist anarcho transmits the level of “do not mess with me” of anger. And unless the Trump regime is targeting the naturalized citizens, New York City will remain Betty.

Two years before Trump’s re -election, strength training began. I can now deadlift and squat more than my body weight. Time has nothing to do with the White House worker and more related to my personal goals, but my journey feels appropriate. when Fascism bend her musclesIt is time to make it Women are dangerous again.

Anger should come. It will come.