In this weeks reading I found it very interesting that even back then everything was about war and bettering your country. That connects perfectly with the book Zayni Baraka. In this book it talks about Zayni who was given a great position in Egypt as the Market Inspectorship. He took this power to great limits pushing the people away from him because he scared them with change. The people in Egypt did not what to see change because they were so used to how things were before. In order to change your country and improve it you need to have the people to back you and without them you have nothing. I made the connection with Zayni and Hitler how they both had a vision of change and both failed and made the countries worse. Hitler was successful in one part and that is having the people back his ideas. He was a very good speaker and brought fear to the people. Putting fear in a person will push them towards following you because they will feel safer with someone that knows what there doing.
I feel that we need to change how we view the world. history tends to repeat itself and if we are not careful it will happen again.
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I agree that it seemed like Zayni needed to slowly introduce reform, people tend to riot against reforms they don't trust because they threaten the accepted model. I sort of see your comparison of Zayni to Hitler, since Zayni initially had the support of the peasants as he seemed to build up his image as the humble moral ruler who was on the peoples' side. I do not really see how he made Egypt worse, he continued to try to bring justice to Cairo but was not incorruptible and his reforms didn't always receive support. The use of fear to manipulate the people is definitely a theme in the book, and has been used by many authoritarian regimes.
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