Muhammad Alsebaey wrote:
It is not a political stand that the first body of
written non-fiction work
published in Egyptian Arabic will be on Wikipedia? I said before that there
is an ongoing debate in Egypt about the adoption of Egyptian Arabic as
written in addition to being spoken in order to bolster the national
identity of Egypt. This debate is currently dead in the water AFAIK, with a
lot of argument going for and against. Wikipedia hosting the first
non-fiction written work *is* a political stand in this debate IMHO.
Of course the process is political. There's nothing wrong with that.
Every time two or more people differ on some issue, deciding that issue
requires political interaction, whether it's choosing between the
opinions offered or synthesizing a new compromise position. Politics is
not just partisan activity connected with established ideologies, though
politicians umbilically associated with such ideologies are the ones who
give politics a bad name.
Using "too political" as an excuse for not participating in the debates
of the day is itself a political act.
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