I
believe that some of those who pretend to have weak memory actually
deliberately forget, meaning they know the truth but pretend not to be acquainted
of its details… as some deliberately forget the fact that muslim brotherhood,
while they were at the top of power both in presidency and cabinet, were the
first to reject the other parties including their brothers in the political
Islam current; I here mean the salafists in the first place. If anyone listened
to the statements of salafists’ leaders like Yasser Burhami, he would have known
that bridges of trust were destroyed and were even non-existent from the
beginning with muslim brotherhood.
What is really
striking is that those some give a blind eye about a very significant evidence
of rejecting the other parties… meaning rejecting diversity at large including
friends and allies… I here mean what happened inside the presidential palace
itself when Muhammed Mursi appointed some aides of him and a bunch of
councilors full of celebrity names some of them are really respected.
Then those
councilors found themselves doing nothing even those who insisted on going on
in their positions, despite all difficulties only for the benefit of the
country and reputation of democracy and muslim brotherhood, had finally
resigned… the first of them was Dr. Saif Abdel-Fattah with whom I have a good
relationship allowing us to exchange points of view… whether when we were assigned
a common mission he was heading; that was the national council of justice
during and a bit after the time of Essam Sharaf’s cabinet or even when we used
to meet. I heard from him about muslim brotherhood, their leaders and
discipline that I want to postpone discussing until I write about the
phenomenon of intellectuals and professors who have double discourses and who
help the tyrant practice his tyranny and not advise him to renounce it.
It was the same
case for the rest of aides except for one who stayed and could not do her job
or at least the mission she was assigned to do; that was reforming and reenacting
the national council of justice… I was present in a meeting headed by her with
her professor Dr. Saif Abdel-Fattah at her right… I believe the only success we
had was ordering a list of delicious sandwiches as we heard a lot about the
lavish banquets the presidential palace used to hold during Mursi’s reign… we
also heard from trusted sources that they used to sit on the floor while
eating.
Muslim brotherhood
rejected diversity with others when they started very fast in displacing
whoever not belonging to them from the important positions in some ministries
and agencies and placing their men and women in these positions in hundreds
regardless of the efficiency, experience and qualifications.
It even happened
that some of their leaders, Essam el-Erian in particular, started acting as the
powerful men of rule and stopped even having good amicable relations with
others belonging to other political currents… although muslim brotherhood – el-Erian
and Ali Abdel-Fattah in particular – were very communicative before to the
extent of being annoying… especially when the invitation were for meetings
attended by their Murshid; Muhammed Badie’a.
Muslim brotherhood
refused to cooperate seriously with the other parties in this country when they
went back on all their promises that started with their repeated announcements that
they would cooperate with others and would not rule them out… also that they would
not nominate a candidate for the presidency… etc… suddenly, everything went the
other way… there was an obvious ruling out of all the others… a president not
qualified for his task… an almost complete control over the two legislative councils…
And even when
problems aggravated and there was almost a national unanimity on the necessity
to have a referendum over the president position… that was due to the fatal
mistakes committed against the country on the levels of security, economy,
services and other… also that unanimity was related to another national
consensus over appointing another cabinet, especially Hisham Qandil… muslim
brotherhood went further in rejecting all these calls and underestimating such
unanimity and considered that June, 30 was nothing but a whirlwind that would
eventually calm down and the day would pass just like the other days… I still
remember the face of Essam el-Erian laughing sarcastically over Tammarud
movement and June, 30.
Muslim brotherhood
kept rejecting to respond to the situation until the minister of defense and
commander-in-chief of the armed forces took the initiative and presented
suggestions to come out from such crisis… he warned of the bad fate awaiting
the country… but all those warnings went in vain.
Some went on
denying all those facts to the extent that they mourn democracy, dialogue and
muslim brotherhood’s right to take part in the political process… now, let us
ask ourselves: who can accept to have a dialogue with someone pointing a fire
gun to his head?
Who is that who
refuses to respect other people’s religion and refuses to respect the doctrine
others follow and refuses to respect others’ way of thinking in their relationship
with God and relationship with the society… then that who refuses all this
comes and asks for dialogue and negotiation while he has not declared he would
change his stances or even his intention to discuss such change?
Those some who
deliberately forget also deliberately behave as if the main issue here is
legitimacy, coup and all this bla bla bla… while the main issue is actually the
historical conflict along with the social, economic, political, cultural and
intellectual aspects between two specific projects I have long written about to
shed light over their aspects: the project of reproducing certain texts that
are not taken from the holy Quran or prophet Muhammed Sunna… otherwise, they
are writings of people like Hassan el-Banna, al-Mawdodi, Ibn Tayimmiya,
al-Albani and others… those texts are disputable and can even all be ignored
without affecting the course of Islam or Muslims’ life. The other project is of
logic… that project that adheres to the scientific discipline in dealing with
all aspects of life since God’s doctrine is about achieving the benefits of the
nation… it is that simple since the beginning and forever.
Any honest person
shall refuse to shake hands with this hand asking for dialogue until the other
hand drops the fire and white weapons it holds… it is not figurative… it is a
real weapon ranging from knives, pistols and machine guns to LMGs, RPGs and
anti-aircraft missiles.
However, the
biggest dilemma is that even in case they abandoned knives and bombs, it would
be very difficult for them to abandon other weapons like working in secret,
conspiracy, negating national identity, declaring others different in religion atheists,
maneuvering, lying, deceiving and betraying since it was those weapons that enabled
them to make it to the top of power of Egypt.
Translated into English by: Dalia Elnaggar
Translated into English by: Dalia Elnaggar
This article was published in Al Ahram newspaper on November 21, 2013.
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