Egypt The Fight Between Truth and Evil When I wrote my last article ‘The New Turkey’, the elected democratic government of Egypt was still in power, and I quoted the following: “My intentions for this insight into the history of this area is to give the reader a basis that will help him/her draw a picture or a conclusion on what is going on with the demonstrations that erupted suddenly in Turkey and the Arab spring nations. Below are a few points that I raise in regards to challenges for the Muslim Ummah (nation) to reunite under the new Ottomans or the new Arabs: 1- Do the new powers of the present time (The US western block and the Eastern Russian/China block) see the awakening of the Muslim Ummah as a threat to their own power? 2- Are the global financial institutions that control the world economy threatened by these emerging powers such as Turkey? (Note: In the last 10 years, Turkey saved $300 billion US in interest on the country debts to the banks by refraining from the traditional practices of usury). 3- Minorities have lived peacefully and justly under the Muslim Ummah for hundreds of years. Are they possibly attempting to sabotage the unification of the Muslim Ummah in hope of establishing their own separate states? “. It was foreseeable that the Islamic government in Turkey will deal reasonably and humanely with the anti-government demonstrations, swiftly bringing back peace and order without the necessity of resorting to the use of deadly force. The influence of the AKP party in Turkey over the past 15 years has had a substantial impact on the values and beliefs of its people. This was the first time since the collapse of the Ottoman Empire did the Turkish people have the opportunity to experience a drastic change from oppressive, dictatorial militarily led governments to open, free democratic systems. 15 years of democracy elapsed and the values and beliefs of the generations born during the dictatorial regimes have greatly diminished and came to accept freedom, free thought and democracy, notwithstanding the challenges posed in the three questions above. On the other hand however, the Arab spring revolutions of Tunisia, Libya, Yemen, Syria and Egypt do not have the privilege of the Turkish or even the Gaza (HAMAS) case. The Muslim Brotherhood plays an important role in the instigation and inspiration of past and present Arab revolutions, including Algeria and Afghanistan. Therefore, it is crucial to analyse the historical significance of this group. The Muslim Caliphate came to an end in 1923 when Mustapha Kemal was announced as the first president of Turkey. Subsequently, the Muslim Ummah became in a state of shock and as a result the Muslim Brotherhood was established by Imam Hassan Al-Banna in 1928 in the city of Ismailia, Egypt. Islam was still alive in the hearts of the followers of Islam, and the Brotherhood was a hope for the reawakening and reconstruction of an Islamic state for the Muslim Ummah once again. The revival was led by Imam Al-Banna by establishing the Muslim Brotherhood party that spread to numerous Muslim nations. Islamic political parties throughout the world were formed by great leaders who adopted the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood as the basis of their ideals. Prominent parties and figures include: Dr Necmettin Erbakan, the mentor and spiritual leader of the AKP party and the Turkish PM Mr Rajab Tayyip Erdogan, President of Bosnia Dr Ali Ezzat Bigovic, the Jamaat-e- Islami of Pakistan, Jammaat-e-Islami of Lebanon, HAMAS of Palestine, HAMAS of Algeria, Al-Nahda Party of Tunsia, Justice and Development Party of Morocco, The Islamic Party in Iraq, Muslim Brother hood of Syria, Muslim Brotherhood of Jordon and the Muslim brotherhood of Libya. The aforementioned parties, Muslim scholars and Muslims alike have come to believe that Imam Al-Banna is responsible for the rebirth of the Islamic awakening of the whole Muslim world of the 21st century. Since the establishment of the group in 1928, it faced a lot of political persecution in various countries and many of their leaders and activists were jailed, executed, or assassinated. Imam Al-Banna was among the victims and was assassinated in 1949 allegedly by the Egyptian Secret Police. Massacres have also been committed against the brotherhood, where in 1982 the Hama Massacre was carried out against the Brotherhood in Syria with fatality estimates suggested at between 10,000 – 40,000 victims. Despite all the persecution, the group grew stronger until they won the democratic elections in Egypt, Tunsia, Morocco, Palestine, Turkey and other countries. More significantly, ever since 1928 the struggle of the Muslim brotherhood across all nations was between dictatorial military led governments, including: Saddam Hussein of Iraq, Hafez Al-Assad of Syria, the military governments of Turkey, Mummer Al-Kaddafi of Libya, and the military governments of Nasser, Sadat and Mubarak in Egypt. As I have previously stated, the Turkish and HAMAS Muslim governments face three challenges. The newly elected governments in Egypt, Tunsia, and Libya have more challenges to face in addition to the aforementioned challenges, including: 4- The collapse of the Caliphate saw the formation of new secular states which operated under the guise of ‘democracy’. However, the generations that grew up in the so called democracies, which I like to call the dictatorship generations, have been successfully conditioned socially, mentally and politicly to accept the rule of dictatorship, corruption and fear rather than the rule of law. As a result, a strong faith in the military has been entrenched within the generations and has been regarded as the ultimate safeguard of the nation. 5- The rich Arab gulf states of Saudi Arabia, UAE and Kuwait that surround the Arab spring nations perceive democracy as a threat to their own style of government that is based on a tribal, one-man rule system. As a result, the Muslim Brotherhood poses a threat to their regimes and agendas. All the above challenges represent a big challenge for the newly democratic elected Muslim governments in Tunsia and Libya. The fate for Egypt has already been decided as the Brotherhood failed to successfully combat these challenges during their office. The overthrow of the democratically elected government through a military coup proves the theory of a dictatorship generation. The Muslim Brotherhood is left once again to continue the struggle against oppression, unlawful incarcerations, police and military brutality, corruption, and dictatorship. In time, history will illustrate that the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt in the 21st century brought about the first democratic elected government in the history of ancient and modern Egypt which ended oppression and provided freedom for the masses. 3000 years later and the system has not been modified, from the time of the Pharaohs to the present military dictatorship rule. The fight between the truth (Al-Haq) and Evil (Al-Batel) continues on since the beginning of humanity. It was narrated on Omar Bin Al-Kat tab, “The son of Amr bin As abused and beat up a Coptic Christian; on hearing this Umar ibn Al-Khattab had son of Amr punished publicly by the hand of the victim Copt Christian. Then Umar ibn Al-Khattab addressed both father and son and said, “Since when do you enslave the people when their mothers bore them as free men?” So the question is, who will win in the end: the truth (Al-Haq) or Evil (Al-Batel)?
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