Long
time ago, accusations leveled by people belonging to political and doctrinal
orientations became like clothes; ready-made and tailor-made, as every political
orientation had its own skills of leveling accusations at its enemies. The peak
of this was, and will always be, by using such accusations in assassinating the
character of the person intended.
For
example, in a certain period of time, the Marxist Left were really adept at
leveling accusations of disloyalty and working in favor of security entities at
their enemies while calling them ideological descriptions like “petit bourgeois”,
“having revolutionary immaturity”, “infiltrator working for the
counter-revolution” and “comprador”. Also, muslim brotherhood mastered leveling
accusations of heresy and depravity at others. Later, along with Islamic groups,
they raised the level of accusations to “atheism” making all who disagree with
them “heretic”, “depraved”… and “atheist”. Nasserites too, for they belong to
the Left in general, did not escape this and did level accusations of working in
favor of security entities, opportunism, riding the wave and deviating from
principles of socialism at those who disagreed with them.
However,
only two of the historic figures in our contemporary history were targeted by
character assassination; these two are Gamal Abdel-Nasser and Abdel-Fattah
as-Sisi. Anwar Sadat, meanwhile, was physically assassinated. It’s obvious that
the accusation of being a dictator and tyrant is the most effective in
assassinating the character of the two presidents, for both of them have common
traits inhibiting any attempt to assassinate their character through
accusations like corruption, drinking alcohol, being a womanizer, working for
international intelligence agencies…etc.
It’s
not strange that terrorists of muslim brotherhood and other islamist groups
agree with some of those who claim to be liberals, others claiming to be
socialists and others claiming to be just Egyptians, on leveling the accusation
of being a dictator to president Sisi, as this accusation, according to their
belief, is welcomed by the American and European West and organizations raising
slogans of human rights and protecting freedoms. Through this window or gate,
they can work to tighten the noose around Egypt on the cyberspace, political
and economic levels, and hence, affecting president Sisi’s ability to go
forward with our country towards the targeted goals of development.
Most
dangerously is to distract the attention of the international community away
from the enormous efforts made by Sisi-led Egypt in fighting the armed
terrorism that hit our Egyptian existence on several fronts. Moreover, Egypt have
sacrificed tens of martyrs of army, police, judiciary men and civilians in this
fight, not to mention the huge social and economic costs incurred amid dire
shortage of resources and funds.
Then,
this accusation of dictatorship is what terrorists of muslim brotherhood and
other islamist groups have, along with those I mentioned who claim being
liberals and socialists, to obstruct any successes achieved by Sisi-led Egypt in
all domestic fields and on the foreign level in specific, as successes in this
domain are almost unprecedented for Egypt since long time.
The
best way to face such rumors and false accusations is to ignore them since
discussing such nonsense means acknowledging it. However, what we have is not a
rumor, rather a dirty weapon the enemy insists on using to deprive our country
of reaping the fruits of any efforts made earnestly on all fronts and levels. Hence,
it’s better to reply and refute such accusations and not rely on the ability of
foreign parties in specific and of some intuitive awareness on the domestic
level to understand the real target behind such accusations.
We will
not start by defining dictatorship or the difference between dictatorship and
autocracy, as even the “dictator”, according to classics of political sciences
and history, has to consult his associates among whom he is the first. As to
the “autocrat”, he is the absolute ruler not subject to restrictions or
consulting anyone. Also, we will not provide examples of dictatorships that succeeded
in saving its peoples from bloody civil wars and underdevelopment; a clear and
recent model for this is “Franco” in Spain who managed to save his country and
put it on the way of true democracy.
However,
we will begin by asking: is there any signs of tyranny in the ruling of
president Sisi?... is there any absence for the three judiciary, legislative
and executive authorities or institutions?... isn’t there any separation of
powers?... don’t we have a constitution?... have laws been disabled?... are
there any special procedures or courts?... is there a permanent state of
emergency nationwide?... does the president monopolize making and taking the
decision?! Also, does analyzing the purport of president Sisi’s political
discourse indicate any signs of inclination to tyranny, as sometime tongue
slips can tell of the hidden intentions of the one talking?
The
answer is simply: No… without much details as the answers are practically
demonstrated and clear, and even the last question regarding analyzing the
purport of the president’s political discourse, the answer is also negative, for
the man in most of his speeches – as if he wants to convey a certain meaning –
always says he is just a single man no better than anyone else, and that he alone
can do nothing unless “we all together” unite.
Finally,
I’d like to say that attempts to assassinate the character of the president will
not stop, and if security entities are entitled to protecting him physically,
they will not be able to protect him against such attempts of assassinating his
character, as this is the role of the cultured elite who agree to the president’s
orientation and who realize that assassinating his character will work for the
benefit of terrorism, chaos and enabling the enemies of our country to threaten
its existence and future.
Translated
into English by: Dalia Elnaggar
This article was published in Dar Al-Helal magazine on
September 28, 2016.
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