It is difficult a
writer, who is supposed to respect what he writes, denies a stance he once
adopted and defended before. I say this because of the rash that started spreading
recently in the intellectual, cultural and press domain. I here mean the
rubbish or opportunists that surfaced from the National Democratic Party (NDP)
during very dark eras in the history of this country.
I have already written
some articles after January 25th revolution distinguishing between
what I called the state intellectual and the regime’s one. I affirmed that
nations are not built by denying the efforts of its brilliant minds and that
not everyone who belonged to an entity or party formed by the regime from above
and later this party came to an end, is a traitor or opportunist, because there
are times when this intellectual, scientist, researcher or executive has
nothing else to do but to engage in the official organizational channels so
that he can serve his country and avoid the obstacles put in his way.
I gave examples for this
starting from Hassan el-Attar and Refa’a el-Tahtawi who collaborated with
Muhammed Ali Pasha regime and then came other generations that did the same
thing until we reached July 23rd, 1952 revolution and the political
entities and parties that followed like at-Tahrir organization, National Union,
Socialist Union and Young Cadres’ organization… then Egypt party during Sadat’s
era and finally the National Democratic Party during Mubarak’s time.
Although the majority
were of those untalented politically, culturally and morally ignorant, and that
those who made it to the top were usually of those whom we can call “bindweeds”;
invasive weeds twining the trees’ trunks and climbing up until they hide the
tree and sometimes feed over these trees, there were also some efficient
scientifically, culturally and morally talented people who found no other way
but the official one to be of use to their country. I called upon those sincere
sophisticated scientists not to retreat into their shells and to start looking
for a way to continue benefiting their country, otherwise they would be regarded
as opportunists. Some of them responded and started working actively again.
However, we are witnessing now a phenomenon the least to describe is that it is
disgusting as there are some ugly figures of the NDP that started to appear
once again in the public scene.
First, I would like to
say that the danger our country and the current political regime led by
president Sisi are facing is not represented only in muslim brotherhood and all
their likes of active or inactive terrorist cells whether here or abroad. Actually,
I believe these abscesses are way more dangerous than muslim brotherhood. They are
like the bedsores hidden under bed covers and while the doctor is busy curing
the patient of the disease that made him stick to bed, the patient suddenly
dies, not due to the illness, but because of the bad effects of those bedsores.
Due to my profession, I have
to go daily through the newspapers, magazines and other social networking
websites to know the updates and follow what is happening around us. And so I see
what these abscesses write in the newspapers owned by private capital and some
official newspapers. One then finds those rats – that is what they were and
still are since the time of Mubarak and his son – suddenly behaving like brave
eagles shoving their poisonous claws in the nation’s body. And so their mean savageness
meet with that of the muslim brotherhood. They have no target but to attack the
entity that protected the people in January 25 and corrected the course in June
30; that entity that have been removing all the stumbling blocks piled since
the beginning of economic Infitah and aftermath of 1967 defeat.
The NDP abscesses have
stayed inactive in the Egyptian body, hidden in its pivotal points and strategic
places and when they started to appear once again, it turned out that they are monopolizing
the whole country. They had no mercy over the Egyptian people starting from
wheat and not ending by babies’ milk… and if anyone wanted to stand up to them,
they would say: “hey, look… they are against free trade… they are against
investment, profit and individual initiatives… they want us to go back to
socialism, one-man rule and dictatorship”. They launch their campaigns attacking
our Egyptian national army and the president who gave an example of himself
when he donated half his salary and half of what he inherited from his father
to the country… that man who ceases not to do his best on both the domestic and
foreign domains.
Yes… they are revenging
because I heard myself – I have already written about this – some of them condemning
the role of field marshal Tantawi in January 25th revolution and
blaming him for the people’s success to topple Mubarak’s regime along with his press
and culture figures.
I would like to mention
once again what we have written before during Mubarak’s time that the ruling fascist
capitalism has two wings… one of them is the NDP and the other is muslim
brotherhood who provides the moral cover for such capitalism… they justify all
profits gained by that capitalism no matter how unjustifiably gross they are…
and if anyone stood to them, they would deceivingly mention the Hadith saying
“All things of a Muslim are inviolable for his brother-in-faith:
his blood, his property and his honour"... meaning that nationalizing, controlling the country's resources or even putting regulations to bridle such unjustifiable profits to stay within a reasonable limit is considered Haram in their ideology.
And
so the partnership between the two wings; Mubarak’s regime and musim
brotherhood, took place when they occupied more than 25 percent of the
parliament seats and took control of main key fields of the Egyptian economy.
In very simple direct
words, I would like to say: the fight against terrorism shall not be limited to
armed men, muslim brotherhood and terrorists. Actually, it should include those
abscesses that hid long and are now fiercely rashing. In the next time, I shall
present some examples for those abscesses through what they write in the press
or social networking websites.
Translated into English by: Dalia Elnaggar
Translated into English by: Dalia Elnaggar
This
article was published in Al Ahram newspaper on October 6, 2016.
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