Islamic Zombies and Much More

by Richard Fernandez
PJ Media
September 14, 2012

https://www.legal-project.org/3061/islamic-zombies-and-much-more

Excerpt:

Lee Smith shares some fascinating emails from Cairo. First, he describes the matter of Islamic zombies.

"The revolution ran on two levels," Amr Bargisi, senior partner at the Egyptian Union for Liberal Youth, emailed me today from Cairo. "There was the intellectual or ideological level, which was dominated by Islamists and leftists. This was the part of the revolution that was most visible. But there was another level as well, the street level, which was dominated by the Islamists and this same collection of young toughs, high school and technical school students who hang out around Tahrir Square. They like fights, they like to storm buildings, some, if not most, are addicted to Tramadol. It's a great anti-police drug. You don't feel pain. They can beat you to death and you won't feel a thing. They're calling it the Zombie drug. Tramadol was a big part of the revolution. The point is that for the ideological revolution to have succeeded you needed these toughs because you had to win on the street level. To take on the entire police force of a dictatorship like Mubarak's you needed to bring them down on the street through force. That's who these kids are. They took on the Mubarak regime alongside the Islamists, whose willingness to die for their cause cannot be underestimated."

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