Gone is the time when we
used to wonder of a thief snatching and stealing what others have and then
pretending to be generous and moral, saying: “since when the kite let go chicks”…
it is a common proverb that is said in such case…
As kite for those who do
not know it – especially of young generations – is a bird of prey or raptor
that hunts his prey alive and eats dead animals as well… it used to fly heavily
with the crows in Egypt… and used to snatch baby domesticated birds of chicken,
ducks, geese and sometimes even baby animals like rabbits, mice and baby goats…
after using pesticides extensively on a wide scale, kite started to disappear…
it died due to feeding on such preys poisoned with such pesticides that
polluted both the environment and humans in Egypt…
I remembered this
proverb when I read the report issued by the foreign affairs’ committee in the
British parliament acquitting muslim brotherhood of terrorism… it is a long
report; I wish if I could excerpt the whole of it because it is full of what we
should discuss and dispute… afterwards, we should exert all efforts through the
official Egyptian diplomacy and other non-official entities to clear out all
the misconceptions and legal, political, historical and information ignorance
this committee of the British parliament has.
We can discuss the
matter using two different introductory ways but both have the same result… we
may start analyzing the vision and discipline of muslim brotherhood and detect
their practices in the last two decades… or we can start analyzing the
beginning, course, vision and discipline of muslim brotherhood since they were
first established in 1928.
It is important this
discussion shall include an analysis for what the British report called the
British morals that it referred to more than once affirming that the British
foreign diplomacy missed them in two incidents… the first was when it; the
British diplomacy, adopted a negative stance toward muslim brotherhood… and the
second was when it did not condemn or stand against the military regime in
Egypt… in my opinion, the report has hit the heart of the case we are talking
about, especially the issue of condemning and standing “the power practiced by
the military in Egypt”… as per the report text …
This is the British kite
that kept for tens of decades snatching whole countries stretching over a vast
area of land where the sun never goes down… whole nations along with their
peoples, resources, fortunes, heritage, monuments and wills were snatched by
the Great Britain “kite” which confiscated the present and future of these
nations using the most powerful weapon it had among its arsenal; the one
stronger than any atomic bomb; divide and conquer, that was the basis for the
establishment of muslim brotherhood group in 1928 after the Zionist Jewish
migration to Palestine grew with the help and consent of Britain… and
categorization based on ethnicity started to spread in the region as well…
It was planned for
muslim brotherhood to appear as a movement that claims Islamic reference so
that religious polarization would flare and the region could prepare for what
came later and which we can see its climax in our present time as racist,
religious and ethnic polarization turned into civil wars and led to dismantling
whole countries.
It seems that Britain
had discovered that the region’s nations are insusceptible to dismantling by
foreigners… and that it is more viable that some of the sons of these nations
would execute such dismantling plans so that people would accept on their hands
what they refused before on the hand of the foreigner other… this is what we
notice very clearly in the beginning and course of muslim brotherhood movement.
Also, it seems that the
British parliament committee depended only on the realization of the importance
to keep dismantling and destroying the region so that any possibilities of
having an Arab entity or body with liberating independent orientations would
come to an end for an unforeseeable limit of time; an Arab entity that refuses
the Zionist discrimination… on another side, having a muslim brotherhood ruling
regime would attract and polarize all political Islam movements that threaten
the European societies; meaning to export violence back to its main home so
that those movements would clash with one another…
While talking about the
long-in-time British morals in democracy and other aspects, the committee did
not pay attention to the literature of muslim brotherhood in Hassan el-Banna’s
writings and messages and Sayed Qutb’s books… also, their actual practices on
the ground whether when they were out or in power… when political and ethnicity-based
alienation was well visible and present and when monopoly of power and wealth was
clear…
More important is that
when muslim brotherhood were in ruling power of a multi-religion-and-sect
society – such society that did not witness a religion-referenced ruling regime
in its modern times – waves of extremism and mutual violence among the nation’s
own people started… whether this extremism was religious and sectarian or
political and cultural… it was also well noticed in the sexual discrimination
between men and women.
The British
parliamentarian committee speaks of democracy and British morals like the case
when “the kite let chicks alone”… meaning that it is impossible that those who
have a long history of occupying countries, looting nations’ fortunes and
humiliating peoples, and having a present that seeks dismantling and destroying
societies that long knew cohesion and centralization and fought long decades
for their freedom… it is impossible to appear as a preacher for democracy and
morals… such morals that were never reflected for a single moment in the
history of the British colonization during the 19th and 20th
centuries.
There are highly-significant
paragraphs in the report of the British parliament committee… for example, this
one that says – here I excerpt from the text published on “Almasryoon”
newspaper’s website –:
“the United Kingdom did not recognize muslim
brotherhood group as a terrorist organization… and we agree to it in such
decision… as muslim brotherhood group declares they do not aspire to fulfill
their targets through violence… but we notice that the British government
believes the group may be ready to consider adopting violence in case tactics of
escalation were of no help… however, all evidences available until now from
inside Egypt indicate that if muslim brotherhood group supported or adopted
violence, Egypt would have been a much more violent place today”!!
That means, in plain
words, that the British parliament agrees to the degree of violence exists now
in Egypt because the alternative is more violence if muslim brotherhood group
supported or adopted that… as if those who exploded electricity towers and
booby-trapped cars to kill all those who martyred were not muslim brotherhood!
We have a very arduous
task lying on the shoulders of the official diplomacy, communities and figures
qualified to have an effect on the British society and parliament, and then on
our written and seen media so the whole picture would become clear… we shall
seek to make the British understand that it is for the interest of Britain to
deal with the changes that took place in the region since their troops and
military bases were evacuated at the beginning of the fifties… they shall
understand that history can never go back.
Translated into English by: Dalia Elnaggar
Translated into English by: Dalia Elnaggar
This
article was published in Al Ahram newspaper on November 10, 2016.
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see the original article, go to:
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