Bedouin Kidnappers

This past weekend was very tense, the football tragedy happened on Wednesday and people were already out protesting about it on Thursday afternoon, they were marching towards the interior ministry which is where loads of people got killed in November so it was obvious that shit was going to kick off.  On top of that 2 kids got kidnapped on their way to school, they were from a super rich family and went to the German school in Dokki, this was scary as we also have a lot of super rich kids and well we are an international KG too, so everyone was on edge, then there were reports of more robbery's and it was all a bit scary and reminiscent of the revolution's darkest days. I spent Friday watching the news and at some point I read about 2 Americans being kidnapped in Sinai by armed Bedouin guys, my initial thought was wow way to go, another nail in the coffin for the tourism industry, as if the protests, crazy shit going on downtown and the Salafis weren't enough now we have kidnapped Americans woo hoo!! So I followed the news for the entire weekend and the next day the Americans were released and it actually made my day to read what they had said about the incident; the kidnappers were kind! they made tea and lit a fire and then served them bread and dates... they even told  one of the kidnappers that his smoking disturbed them so he went ahead and put out his cigarette! They were constantly told not to worry and to look at it as a special tour of the desert. It was strange, I was surrounded by dark, gloomy, serious and depressing stuff yet reading this made me remember how much I love Egypt and the Egyptians. This is not the place that they show on the news, it's not 24 hour fighting and there is no civil war, the people are warm and kind and are always willing to help. It's so easy to get swept up in the media storm and to believe that nothing is safe anymore, and yes the crime rate has risen but it is nothing compared to other huge cities around the world. there is some horrible stuff happening in certain areas and we should be aware and more cautious  but we should never ever forget the Egyptian people's hearts. I get very frustrated here at times but deep down when I look at the Egyptian people, I just know this country is going to be fine.