Again… salafists and blackmailing state

I write about this issue for the second time in an attempt to know when, how and where has this one called Yasser Hussain Mahmoud Burhami Hashish managed to blackmail the interior ministry, government, regime or the state?... since all what he says in public entails liability, accountability and punishment… supposing that we live in a state that respects the constitution and applies the law.

I do not believe that the current regime needs a cover that claims to be religious instead of the moral cover; the one based on values of citizenship and Egyptian cultural civilization structures that date back to the dawn of history… through ancient Egypt since the first dynasty… then the Hellenistic period… Christian… Islamic… and then to the modern and contemporary era… since some political regimes need a cover claiming to represent the religious reference because such regimes adopt a negative stance towards values of citizenship and cultural civilization structures in general.

And so I seriously ask: when, how and where has Burhami; vice-chief of the salafist Call, managed to blackmail the ruling regime institutions… to the extent that he recently gives sermons in mosques for a reason I believe is very ridiculous and funny… that is he was able to succeed in an exam set by the ministry of endowments… I do not know if this exam included a question asking: what is your opinion of the one who accuses an Egyptian citizen or group of misconduct, aggression, wrongfulness and infidelity without a judicial verdict stating that?... and does this one who considers himself a preacher to the way of God have the right to give such verdicts on the Christian Egyptian citizens?

All institutions in charge have already known what any Egyptian citizen following what is published and broadcasted on the internet knows… when Burhami was asked about how the Muslim husband should treat his Christian wife and his answer was extremely outrageous and appalling.

Neither Al-Azhar nor the ministry of endowments issued a reply to such answer… nor the public prosecution or the ministry of endowment punished him… only people like me reacted to what he said…and it looked like a words fight with a man who incites to hatred, contempt, loathing, destroying family relations and violating all that is human and decent.

The same thing happens again… not only on the hands of Burhami… but by another one adopting the same salafist ideology called Yahia Refa’ei Sorour who said in public about the martyred Egyptian citizens slaughtered in Libya: “they are sheep… 21 Christian sheep whose blood is cheap… they are not partners to us in this country… and we feel offended as the Christian Egyptians stayed safe in Egypt after the coup”.

As to Yasser Burhami, he described the Egyptian Christian citizens in public – as recorded in audio and video – as: “they are an infidel wrongful aggressive criminal minority that abuses the right of the majority… we call our brother Christians atheists… yes, they are our brothers in the country… but they are atheists if they keep believing in their religion and so they will go to hell…”. Then Burhami describes all who disagree to his opinions as “they are hypocrites and atheists”… meaning that all persons and entities that disagree to Yasser Hussain Mahmoud Burhami Hashish are atheist hypocrites!

After all this, Yasser Burhami and leaders of the salafist Call like Muhammed Ismail al-Mokadem, Muhammed Abdel-Fattah Abu Idris, Abdel-Mone’im esh-Shahat and others remain in the forefront of the religious Dawaa… they also have a political party that takes place in elections… and they may achieve the first, second or third majority in the coming parliament!

Again, I repeat the question: when, how and where have Burhami and his likes managed to blackmail the state institutions?... I wish we can know the answer to this question so that we too stay silent to what they say.

I searched quickly about the roots of the phenomenon of the salafist Call in Alexandria and went through some excerpts from references… I knew they are all influenced by, actually committed to the opinions of Ibn Taymmiya, Ibn el-Qayem, Muhammed Abdel-Wahhab and in particular al-Albani… I have already discussed some of Ibn Taymmiya’s Fatwas about the Christians in particular and the others who do not believe in Islam in general… such Fatwas contained what is really defaming Islam and humanity as well.

I want to know the opinions and Fatwas of al-Albani because all those I met and who adopt Burhami and al-Howeini’s ideology whenever you ask them about something, they immediately say: al-Albani said… as if this al-Albani is the first and last to them. His full name is Muhammed Ibn al-Hajj Nouh Ibn Nagati Ibn Adam al-Ashqouri 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 Call; 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… not a single book of those can be described as a genuine one based on well-established bases and produces something new that helps achieve the nation’s interests.

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, ruled 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 depth… 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 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 least citizen like me… for God sake, how don’t the lawyers and public prosecution 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?

For the tenth time I ask: when, how and where have Burhami and the salafists managed to blackmail the state institutions in Egypt?

Translated into English by: Dalia Elnaggar

This article was published in Almasry alyoum newspaper on March 29, 2017.

To see the original article, go to:

http://ahmadelgammal.blogspot.com.eg/2017/03/blog-post_28.html

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

Salafists… Burhami as model

Here is the pit of salafists, into which they push us to fall into, turning into a deep abyss while our nation is still striving to get out of the muslim brotherhood’s hole we fell into…

However, that hole was about the identity of our country and the essence of this identity which I tackled in a previous article… but as to the abyss of salafists, it is about those people insisting not only on disrupting the moral, cultural and civilization roots established in Egypt two thousand years before the divine religions spread as detected by the genuine scholar James Henry Breasted in his book “The Dawn of Conscience”… but also on disrupting the good relations between the divine religions… I here mean God’s mercy ascribed to his deity in his holy book.

It is no longer about debating over religion or excerpting holy Quranic texts or sayings of prophet Muhammed which I believe those salafists may have not read while they are dedicating themselves to spread roughness, rudeness, cruelty and extremism maybe more than the Israelites themselves did… It is about a country in which we live and a world working hard to demand more rights for the animals, plants, seas, rivers, mountains, insects and air… while those salafists cease not to enflame fires of hatred and division among sons of the same country and sons of humanity… If we connected their concept of identity to their conceptions of common life in this country, we would have a vicious circle closing firmly around all of us allowing no one to escape outside…

The first level of common life and highest in degree is the family life where fatherhood, motherhood, filiation, family ties, affection and all that is mentioned in dictionaries of love of meanings and concepts.

I watched the video more than once… I watched it again to pay more attention and to try to comprehend… I stayed astonished reiterating “there is no power nor might save in Allah”… and to this moment in the evening of Monday September 23^rd, 2013 as I am writing this article, I still cannot believe what I saw and heard in that video… I noticed the face expressions and hand gestures of that pediatrician who claims and others believe he belongs to Salafism… which is simply for those who properly understand and apply God’s law is what was understood and applied by Sahaba or companions of prophet Muhammed, followers, followers of followers and all who followed them faithfully until Judgment day.

The speaker was Yasser Burhami… it looked like a discussion session with people asking Burhami in religious matters because he kept repeating and affirming the meaning he wants using all words and examples he had. The question – as the answer seemed to tell – was about Muslim men marrying women of the people of the book; meaning Christians and Jews… and since it is almost impossible to find Jewish girls at the age of marriage in our society right now, discussion was accordingly over Christian women.

That was not the first time I listen to someone claiming to be Faqih in religion matters and who can issue Fatwas although it requires precise strict conditions that are simply rare to find at those claiming to be able to do such thing… as I have already watched and listened to Sheikh al-Mahallawi talking about the legality according to religion of Muslims congratulating Christians on their feasts… I wrote two articles over this in Almasry alyoum newspaper after I did my best and read a lot about what is mentioned in Quran and in prophet Muhammed’s Sunna regarding such issue… I found what I do not think Burhami and before him al-Mahallawi and all their likes have ever known… I believe their role model and mentor in such opinions is Ahmed Ibn Tayimmiya al-Harrani and all his likes of hardliners.

Burhami said that Muslim men can marry women of the people of book and went on explaining that this Muslim husband shall declare his hatred to his wife – in our case, the Christian – because of her religion… and that he would have committed a sin if he fell in love with her or greeted her and said hello… and that if he has to, then he shall address his greetings to his Muslim kids… meaning that in case he has no kids, then he shall not say hi to her.

Burhami, the salafist pediatrician, added that marital cohabitation does not necessitate love or affection… and gave examples of cases when having sex and satisfying lust are done by force without love… he asked denying: since when all sexual intercourse inside our marital lives was based on love?

In general, his talking was about inciting the Muslim husband to hate his non-Muslim wife and the necessity to let her feel that otherwise he would be considered absolutely sinful… and he kept citing texts supporting what he says!

I have no idea how can a human… second, Muslim… third, physician… forth, Dawaa preacher… ignore the essence of relationships between humans in general no matter what their gender, color, tongue or religious beliefs are… this essence is the soul that God created its partner out of it… not to mention that we worship one God and believe in one spiritual father; that is prophet Ibrahim, peace by upon him.

What is the opinion of Burhami and his likes of the Quranic verses… verse 62 of the chapter of Al-Baqara, verse 113 of the chapter of Al-i-Imran, verse 82 of the chapter of Al-Ma’ida and verse 8 of the chapter of Al-Mumtahina?… what is their opinion of God’s words in the chapter of Al-Hajj, verse 17: “Indeed, those who have believed and those who were Jews and the Sabeans and the Christians and the Magians and those who associated with Allah - Allah will judge between them on the Day of Resurrection. Indeed Allah is, over all things, Witness.“?

If that was the stance of believers towards others including the Magians and those who associated with Allah; that only God will judge between them on the day of resurrection… you can imagine the case if it was a man with his wife who believes in God and whom Islam allowed him to marry and entrust on his honor, kids, money, his mother, father and home… not to mention that she and her folks are partners to him in this country that existed long time ago before the divine religions came and will stay in our hearts until judgment day.

How, for God sake, can we trust those who keep openly inciting and provoking the husband to hate his wife and to let his kids feel such thing on our country and the coming generations?... in such tiring, exhausting and actually disgusting context, I wonder: how filiation and motherhood would be among the children; boys and girls, who were brought up in such family where father does not say hi to the mother and does not show any affection or mercy towards her since all these are signs of love?... actually all what those children see are a door slammed and banged and sex practiced without any feelings.

I here ask Burhami and his likes if he ever saw, if he once lived in the countryside or saw any of the TV channels interested in animals’ life and behaviors, an insect, bird, reptile or mammal having sex without flirting, wooing, affection, tenderness and altruism… has he ever looked for once at the chickens when the male calls his female partners to pick up food before he does?

Haven’t Burhami and his likes ever heard of prophet Muhammed’s orders in practicing marital cohabitation and his warning that man shall not have sex with his wife without showing love and affection in advance?

Hasn’t he read the verses that speak of the high-moral essence of relationship between spouses without hinting at their religious beliefs?

Damn this life empty of love or affection… what a miserable family that which enjoys no feelings or affection.

People of Egypt… beware... the pit turned to an abyss.

Translated into English by: Dalia Elnaggar

This article was published in Al Ahram newspaper on September 26, 2013.

To see the original article, go to:

http://ahmadelgammal.blogspot.com.eg/2013/09/blog-post.html

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