Incited Spirits and Crazy Tongues!

Exaggerated allegations; embarrassing claims; media heresies that can be described as "strange" and "painful"; black tongues pouring oil on fire; instigations and threats accompanied by intimidations and admiration and "shrewdness" of trading with patriotism and nationalism.

Happiness and riots in Algeria; crowds and riots in Egypt; obsession and madness in two Arab countries; dishonorable competition that lacked sportsmanship; horns roaring on both sides to disseminate unpleasant odors and rancor between two fraternal people…

O cunning, O round crazy object! O flying piece of leather, as described by Rima Maktabi! What troubles and quarrels have you caused between two fraternal people? What have you done to the hearts and minds of the "foxes" and "Pharaohs"?

Why didn't you, O witch, get embarrassed? Why did you take Arabs back to the pre-Islamic wars? Riots of "mercenaries"… I mean nationalists.

This is "gibberish" talk written on yellow papers and aired on "nonsense" channels. Would a neutral person call it narcissism, chauvinism, schizophrenia or a ball-caused hysteria mixed with fake nationalism?!

Recalling ambassadors; contacts among ministers; calls for estrangement and isolation; dead and injured people in celebration events and stupid demonstrations… The mind is absent, self-discipline is lost, and political and sports emotions are governed by the whims of a "mercenary media." Egyptians living in Algeria were turned into hostages, as claimed by the Egyptian media. Algerian fans were returned in coffins, as claimed by the Algerian media. Egyptian newspapers wrote about the disappearance of Egyptian journalists and artists in Sudanese restaurants and houses, fearing white weapons in the hands of Algerian "hooligans."

The result: A diplomatic and political crisis between two fraternal countries. A long meeting by the Egyptian National Security Council to take official measures against the actions of the Algerian fans. The Arab League threatened to interfere because of a soccer game and fan riots.

Algerian singer Warda sings "the lesson lies in the conclusions." Algerian fans chanted against the Egyptian team when they welcomed their country's national team, which was qualified for the World Cup, at the Houari Boumedienne Algerian Airport.

Ahlam Mosteghanemi [Algerian writer] attacked Egypt and settled the result in favor of Israel. Lebanese singers Haifa Wehbe and Nancy Ajram interfered in the battle to support Egypt, while Algeria threatened to prevent them from entering its territory.

"They are only low-level people and mercenaries slaughtering people in Khartoum." "We should not become savages." "We are patient enough, but this is a humiliation for Egypt's dignity." This is only a small sample of what was written by "fanatic" Egyptian journalists and artists against Algerians.

Egypt recalled its ambassador to Algeria to hold consultations after public pressures following its national team's defeat, and following Egyptian news reports about aggressions against its fans in Khartoum after a critical game, one that was described by Arab and foreign media as "the battle of Om Darman."

Arabism has collapsed and the values of those calling for "defeated" nationalism have fallen. Khartoum called in its security forces and the army and perhaps even the reserve forces, to the extent that the game that was held on the Sudanese Al-Mareekh field was described as a new September 11 between two Arab countries.

Calls were issued to boycott relations and kick off the ambassadors. A political and diplomatic "crisis" emerged among three Arab countries who are parties in the game (Egypt and Algeria) and the hosting country (Sudan), which has nothing to do with what happened except for its desire to host brothers upon a World Cup draw.

Egypt expressed its anger and condemnation in light of continued complaints by Egyptian citizens in Algeria who said they were intimidated and attacked and their possessions were smashed. Algeria acted likewise according to the way diplomacy goes (equal treatment for all).

In return, Sudan called Cairo's ambassador and expressed its anger vis-à-vis false reports by the Egyptian media about confrontations that took place after the game.

Sudan has the right to be annoyed by false claims and allegations. Instead of being thanked for welcoming 35,000 fans and for the efforts to ensure their safety on its territory, it turned into a "conniving" party in a cause that was the focus of the gap-filling slogan-generating media of both countries.

Regrettable incidents; regrettable solutions; missing sportsmanship; prevalence of narcissism... The calls of wise and rational people in Egypt and Algeria to heal the "football" wounds and prescribe solutions are absent. This inflamed reactions and took away the medication prescribed to remove tensions from the relations between two fraternal countries. Sport has always fixed what politics ruins. However, in Egypt and Algeria's case, sport ruined what sacrifices and relations were established by politics.

How pitiable is the Algerian Ambassador to Cairo. How pitiable is the Egyptian Ambassador to Algeria. They were both victims of a "ball" and the others appeared magnanimous.

Incited spirits, broken hearts, and crazy tongues... The gallows were mounted on the poor "conspiracy" which the Arabs constantly talk about. How pitiable is this "conspiracy" and its fake material and its paid merchants, after the minds have fallen down to the very bottom, i.e. the soles of feet, and were kicked by fanatics, hooligans, narcissists, and those who exaggerate. Thus, they turned into balls of fire and accumulated rancor. However…someday, Egypt and Algeria will suffer over what happened because it had the hardest implications on the tongue, heart, mind, and foot, due to a football game.