In this blog I wrote posts that defended Amr Khalid and supported him and his effort to improve the conditions of Muslim youth and youth in general yet to be honest ,not a silent devil " and that the weakest thing I do in this country by blogging" I must record my anger from Mr. Khalid and his support to the on going monopoly of Shekih "what Shekih" Salah Kamal ,the owner of ART Satellite networks
Shekih Salah Kamal has the right of broadcasting the World Cup from Germany in the Arab world exclusively for satellite network The ART , Arab viewers from the Atlantic ocean to the Persian Gulf who don't own satellite must subscribe in his network , paying hundreds of pounds/liras OR what ever from their monthly salaries to him to enjoy one month ONLY OF FOOTBALL . Foot ball in the Arab and Egypt especially is like a drug , in fact it is drug used by the regime for decades to divert the activities and thinking of the people in another way. Every world cup the Egyptian television transfers the matches to the viewers yet this year suddenly the Minister of Information said that we don't have enough budget as the price of transfer is 100 million dollars and no government in the arab didn't pay this sum except one man did it that is multi-billionaire Salah Kamal ,the construction and media tycoon , he got the deal despite that Egypt could have the right of transmission of match to its terrestrial television channel with a price less than the 100 million as we turned to have this deal with EU !!
OK now because of the stupid addiction of Foot ball in this nation and in this world Mr. Kamal imposed high subscription fee to the World cup and sport bouquet , not that only , you can't subscribe for just one month but for a whole year !! More than 200 pounds Egyptians have to be paid for the Saudi business man to watch the Game and event they adore and wait for every 4 year , they have to pay and live in a very hard economical conditions !! Yet nothing is the impossible on the Egyptian dangerous mind when it wants to reach something ,in poor areas they reached to illegal ways to watch the matches whether from the INTERNET or from other satellite channels "Thanks to Al-Ahram Daily" or the greatest invention , Egyptian one of course "The Wasla" or "The Connection" , which is simply speaking is stealing the broadcast of the channels from an original receiver to many receivers , this is how I understood it . Millions are using this connection , of course in my house ,we don't use it ,but other do use it !!
And this drives Shekih Kamal crazy , millions are watching for free not to mention the promotion campaign the MPs are making using his greed especially from the NDP , you see if you go to El-Giza area where Mahmoud Abu -Elanin is the Member of Parliament there , you can watch the matches for free in his social charity club he made for people there ,not him only but dear Ahmed Ezz ,the Iron Tycoon did the same thing in Monof in El-Monfya state !! They want to be popular and he wants to be richer and so he decided to fight all those who want to make him poorer from bad Egyptians , first using popular preacher Amr Khalid , and that makes me angry more from Khalid then from this greedy old Saudi , appearing day and night saying that watching the matches in the so-called illegal ways is haram and against the principals of Islam !!!!!!!!!! I am sorry Mr.Khalid but is n't also the monopoly is haram and forbidden totally in Islam and isn't this what your employer is doing ??
Not that only now arrogant Kamal is insulting the Egyptians and saying
there are 7 million thieves in Egypt who are stealing the broadcast ,those poor people who don't own the subscription fees , don't need to watch foot ball , they should stick to eating and drinking no need for football !
Dear Zeinobia,
ReplyDeleteI totally understand your frustrations but mulsims can not object/resist a crime by another crime.
It the object you are trying to buy is overpriced, this does not give you an execuse to take it without paying. There more legal way which our government should have provided.
To explian with I mean by a crime and why making a "connection" is a crime, consider this: When the customer sign a deal with ART to receive their broadcast in his/her house the deal states that the fee is for receiving the channel in one appartment (I imagine this must be the case since this is the case in the USA) and not the whole appartment complex or the district around you.
When the muslim customer signed this contract, he is obliged to it. This is my understanding of Islam: "The muslims in on what they agreed upon". The customers can not violate the contract without being morally (forget about legally) responsible.
Remember Abu Baker when his servant bring him a food and Abu Baker was hungry and ate and then he asked the servant where did the money from the food came from and he the servant said he got the money after he made some "Rokia" for people with a sick person. Abu Baker immediately put his hand in his own throat so that he can throw up! He did this because he did not want Haram to come into his body and he told Omar that whoever has his body grown from Haram then the hell fire has priority on it. (Sorry for the bad Translation).
To conclude: Muslims are obliged to any contract they sign.
Dear Elmohandes,
ReplyDeleteRemember there is law protecting "him". Just this week the editor of an Egyptian newspaper was jailed for one year.
Do talk about "him"!
That was:
ReplyDeleteDo NOT talk about "him"!
@Egyptian in usa ,about the ART please don't say that what is going in the poor areas is haram and what Salah Kamal did from Monolopy is n't haram ,when he made the price of the subscription fees much greater than most of the poor people not only in Egypt by the whole Arab world is n't this Haram ?? believe me his sin is greater than of those who steal the broadcast , please overestimate their fault to be a sin and haram as they are muslims coz they have enough problems in their life , all what they want is a month of joy . in America can any cable network buys exclivesly the rights of broadcasting the Superbowel and empose higher then average fees for viewers, I don't think that the average americans will welcome it. one month of joy people ask for it and by the way don't think that they tried searching in other so -called legal ways , many of those people are ready to steal the broadcast for one month and not to install the hotbird satelite and let their children see porn channels ,think in their way and you won't find haram in fact that what a saudi greedy man deserves , instead of helping Muslims and make them happy and I am sure you how much Sawab is to make a muslim happy
ReplyDeleteis it from Islam to say what Kamal said about the poor people of Egypt and how they don't deserve to watch sports coz they don't own money !!
I agree totally on what El-Mohandes said especailly on the big boss
do you know that the investiagtions of Natonal security warned the regime from Kamal's monoply could produce more public anger and hate !!
oh the big boss , that is his new code name ,alias thus no one can say that we insult someone !!