Thursday 26 February 2015

Salafists and blackmailing the state




I am trying to know when, how and where this one called Yasser Hussien Mahmoud Burhami Hashish has managed to blackmail the interior ministry, government, regime and state?... as what he says in public requires accountability and punishment if we have a constitution to respect and a law to enforce in this country.

I do not think the currently ruling regime is in need of a cover claiming to be religious that can work instead of the general moral one coming from the values of citizenship and the Egyptian cultural and civilization system that goes back in time to the dawn of history… starting from ancient Egypt since the first dynasty… to the Hellenistic era… Christian era… then Islamic era… and finally to the modern and contemporary era… as some political regimes need a cover claiming to represent the religious reference since they adopt a negative stance towards values of citizenship and cultural civilization systems at large.

And so, I do seriously wonder, when, how and where has this Burahmi; deputy of the salafist Dawaa, managed to blackmail the state institutions to the degree that enabled him recently to give sermons in mosques for a reason I believe is funny… that is he passed the exam set by the ministry of endowments… I do not know if this exam included a question asking: what is your opinion of those who give judgments of criminality, assault, injustice and atheism over an Egyptian citizen or an Egyptian group without a juridical verdict?... does anyone who considers himself a preacher to the way of God have the right to give such judgments on the Christian Egyptian citizens?

All entities in charge have already known what any Egyptian citizen following what is published and broadcasted over the internet knew, when Burhami was asked about how the Muslim husband should treat his Christian wife… his answer was extremely evil and vicious.

Neither Al-Azhar nor the ministry of endowments replied to what he said… not even the public prosecution or the ministry of interior… only people like me reacted and replied to what he said and it looked like a verbal fight with a man inciting on hatred, contempt, loathing, destroying family relations and disagreement to everything that is human and respectful.

The same thing happens again… not from Burhami alone… but from another one belonging to the same salafist specimen named Yahia Refa’i Sorour who said in public about the Egyptian citizens martyred by slaughter in Libya: “they are sheep… 21 Christian sheep whose blood is cheap because we – the pronoun relates to him – do not have a citizenship contract with them… and we feel offended that Copts stayed safe in Egypt after the coup”.

As to Yasser Burhami, he said in pubic in a video recording that the Egyptian Christian citizens: “they are an atheist unjust assaulting criminal minority that assaults the right of the majority… we call our brother Christians atheist… yes, they are our brothers in the country… but they are atheist if they kept believing in their religion and they shall go to hell..”… then he describes anyone who disagrees to what he says as “they are people of hypocrisy and atheism”… meaning that all people and entities that disagree to Yasser Hussien Mahmoud Burhami Hashish are hypocrite atheists!

This Yasser Burhami and leaders of the salafist Dawaa like Muhammed Ismail al-Mokaddem, Muhammed Abdel-Fattah Abo-Idris, Abdel-Mone’am ash-Shahat and others are the occupying the forefront of the religious Dawaa scene… and they have a political party that seeks representation in the parliament and which may have the first, second or third majority in the coming elected parliament.

I have searched quickly about the root of the phenomenon of the salafist Dawaa in Alexandria… and I have been through some parts of references and knew that they all are influenced and even basically committed to opinions of Ibn Taymmiya, Ibn al-Qayem, Muhammed ibn Abdel-Wahhab and al-Albani.

I have already discussed in this very space of Al Ahram newspaper some Fatwas of Ibn Taymmiya towards Christians in specific and others in general… in such Fatwas, there is a lot of evil and injustice towards Islam and humanity…I also try to know more about the opinions and Fatwas of al-Albani because I have not argued with anyone of those like Burhami and al-Albani unless he says: “al-Albani said…”… as if this al-Albani is their first and last reference… his full name is Muhammed Ibn al-Hajj Nouh Ibn Nagati Ibn Adam al-Ashqoudri al-Albani al-Arna’outi or the Arnaut nicknamed as “Abu Abdel-Rahman”. He was born in 1914 in Ashqoudra; the old capital of Albania and died in 1999. His father left Albania while he was one of the biggest scholars of Hanafi Mazhab or doctrine. His father immigrated to Damascus along with his son. The reason behind his immigration was that he disagreed to the King of Albania Ahmed Zogho after the latter prohibited women from wearing Niqab!

Dear reader… you can go through the books of al-Albani and Burhami Hashish… and along with them the chief of the Alexandrian salafist Dawaa; Muhammed Abdel-Fattah Abu Idris… in general, you will find that these books are nothing but annotations explaining the Mutoons[1] of Ibn Hanbal, Ibn Taymmiya and Muhammed Abdel-Wahhab.

One cannot have discussions based on logic and comprehensive aware Fiqhi and scientific evidence with such people… a wise man cannot waste his time arguing with those who have no human feelings in dealing with people and guiding them with wise and kind words.

The only possible thing to do is that state institutions, governed by the constitution and law, shall react to such outrageous behaviour… especially that we are in a very critical situation as we are fighting on five fronts; east, west, north, south and in the heart of our country… the state institutions shall stop these people and punish them as per the law for what they do against the nation and citizens.

Here I ask the minister of endowments and I know he is a man who knows his role and can do anything to keep Egypt’s mosques away from fanaticism and ignorance… how could Burhami and his likes who adopt such declared opinion of describing the Christians as atheists and considering them as an infidel wrongful aggressive criminal minority who should go to hell… how could they manage to deliver sermons in mosques?

Not only this… moreover, they consider all who disagree to the salafists’ opinion about Christians an atheist wrongful… meaning all of us starting from the president to the very common citizen like me… for God sake, how do the lawyers and public prosecution not do something to stop such crime and prosecute those people in public?

How can we stay silent and stand still before those who provide the complete theoretical referencing for what Daesh and its likes do… since the completion of what Burhami and his likes say is the question asking: “now what should we do with those who are atheist, aggressive, criminal and wrongful… and also those hypocrite atheists who disagree to us?”

Won’t the answer be what Daesh does in reality of burning people alive and slaughtering humans?

Translated into English by: Dalia Elnaggar



This article was published in Al Ahram newspaper on February 26, 2015.

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[1] Mutoon: (Arabic: متون) the Arabic plural word for muton (متن) which is the text containing the main idea.

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