Pardon Me...

...while I giggle:

A Jew writes about an event in a Muslim country:

"In Israel, I watched as the protests grew and then turned violent, with protesters continuing to fight back. Something was changing in Egypt.

Fast forward a year to January 25, 2012. Again, it was a national holiday, but it has been rechristened: National Revolution Day."

That's right. Rechristened.

And on the anniversary, Tahrir Square is filled again:

"Angie Balata, an Egyptian-Canadian living in Cairo who participated in the protests during the uprising, said there was still "a lot to fight about" one year later.

"It's been just a lot of chaos, a lot of violence, a lot of sadness, really," Balata told CBC News Network. "I think that the year started off really great with the start of the revolution. But definitely the feeling today, and the feeling that I have personally, is that the revolution continues. We're not close to … having the demands that we wanted to be realized."

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""Unfortunately, this hasn't happened, and we're not close to it," Balata said from Cairo. "The military has taken over, and that's a lot of the reason why there's a lot of sadness. I mean, a lot of people have died since the revolution. A lot of people are in prison."

But the protests have broken Egypt's long-standing "barrier of fear," she said.

"People do go out on the streets, and they say how they feel and they say their opinions. And they get out and they fight for their rights. And that in itself is one of the greatest accomplishments," Balata said."

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""As far as an anniversary goes, this is not — as people who've been protesting for a year, who started protesting a year ago — a celebration," he told CBC News."

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"Modaz Abdul-Hamid, a doctor in Mahalla el-Kubra, told CBC News that residents thought the changes were going to occur immediately after the revolution.

"We thought that it was going the right way, but now, you're not so sure, " he said in Arabic. "Just the president went away. All the other reforms have not happened yet.""

I repeat. A revolution is more than just the overthrow of a dictator. It doesn't happen overnight.

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