What obstacle keeps Unitarian Universalist Service Committee or Unitarian Universalist Association voicing solidarity with brave young people like these?
ما يبقي عقبة ديانة الموحدين خدمة اللجنة أو موحد معربا عن جمعية التضامن الكونيين مع الشباب الشجعان مثل هذه؟
Hundreds of Egyptians have staged an unprecedented show of online defiance against their country's military leadership, taking to their blogs to write at times scathing critiques of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) that assumed power after longtime president Hosni Mubarak stepped down in February.
The show of anger on Monday came ahead of a "million-man" protest that activists have called for Friday, one they hope will be the largest since the revolution and will demonstrate widespread public support for their call to put former government officials on trial and restrain the power of the armed forces.
Criticising the military in any form is a dangerous act in Egypt and is sometimes considered a crime. Maikel Nabil, a pacifist who blogged against the army, was tried and sentenced to three years in prison by a military court in April. It was the first trial of a blogger since the revolution.
But on Monday, the military appeared to strike a different tone.
"This is freedom of expression, and we have no problem with it," a spokesman told Al Jazeera.
The bloggers - the vast majority of whom published in Arabic, but a few in English - said they believed their sheer numbers, and their tone, would help spare them from arrest. By Monday afternoon, at least 203 blogs criticising the Council had been published, according to one widely cited post on facebook.
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