While Egypt’s new interim government is working to assert itself as the country’s new legitimate transition entity by playing on Egyptians’ thirst for economic stability and their frustrations, the military is looking to increase its crackdown against the Muslim Brotherhood and ultimately all Islamic factions, in keeping with Saudi Arabia’s hegemonic plans for the region. Blinded by an intensive and systematic campaign of mis-information and dis-information against the Muslim Brotherhood, Egyptians have become the very tools which are eroding the revolution they so direly fought for in 2011. Two years after Egypt bravely stood against tyranny, its military apparatus is looking to reintroduce the former regime’s men under the cover of democratization. Under the boots of the military and deceived populace, the democratic dreams of an entire country are being trampled upon by the very figures which swore to protect the homeland from all enemies — without and within – As history has taught, no country has ever won its civil liberties through the intervention of its military. One has only to look at Turkey and its hard-fought battle for freedom and democracy to realize that a military-introduced government will only lead to a democratic void. A static institution based on absolute obedience, the military cannot and should not, because of its nature, be allowed to intervene in a country’s political life; not if democracy is indeed the end game. While Egypt’s military chose rightly in 2011 to remain neutral in its stance, preferring to hit the moral high-ground by doing nothing, neither supportive of the revolutionary movement nor condemning, its move against Egypt’s first democratically elected President Mohammed Morsi is threatening to tear the country apart and with it the region. More troubling yet the seeds of dictatorship and authoritarianism are taking roots once again as civil and human rights are being violated under false pretenses. One has only to look at how Egypt’s new interim government is treating or rather mistreating President Mohammed Morsi, a man chosen democratically by the Egyptian people to lead his country, to grasp the type of policies the new regime would like to see implemented and the length Egypt’s new officials will go to ensure that their will is implemented. While President Hosni Mubarak, a man who for three decades held Egypt with an iron fist, defrauding and terrorizing its people, was given the courtesy of a fair trial, in keeping with the respect due to his office, President Mohammed Morsi has been held incommunicado for over three weeks. Whether or not Egyptians approve of President Morsi’s policies or political affiliation, they should at the very least wonder how regular citizens can expect to be treated fairly when the highest dignitary in the land is being denied his rights. Three weeks into the coup and Egypt is staring at the abyss, inching ever closer to civil war. Political witch-hunt & planned death of political Islam Dual demonstrations have been staged by the pro- and anti-Morsi camps over the past three weeks with no sign of letting up. Cornered and under attack, the Muslim Brotherhood has proven more resilient than anticipated by its enemies. One needs to understand that the Egypt military coup was devised with one goal in mind and one goal only, the death of the Muslim Brotherhood and with it political Islam. One has only to look at the relentless propaganda which news organizations have been running against the Brotherhood over the past weeks. Demonized and vilified, the Brotherhood’s public image has been slowly torn apart ahead of the kill; those news organizations which refused to serve the military were raided and their staff arrested. The state made sure to silence whoever would dare raise its voice in support of the Muslim Brotherhood. Interestingly, and just as the anti-Morsi protesters were losing their momentum, tired of playing politicians’ game, Egypt’s Defense Minister Gen. Abdul-Fattah el-Sisi called on all Egyptians to stage anti-terror demonstrations to show their support for the state’s upcoming anti-terror campaign. The idea would be for the Egyptian people to vest the military with the task of ridding the country of all terror elements. As noted by the Muslim Brotherhood, “Why would the military need a popular vote on fighting terror when such a duty so clearly falls within its jurisdiction?” And why indeed? Well if the fact that the government is looking to charge President Morsi of conspiring with the Palestinian militant group Hamas in a prison break in 2011, is an indication, one could expect to see the Muslim Brotherhood branded a terror organization before summer’s end ahead of a bloody crackdown. In a statement, Salah al-Bardaweel, a spokesman for Hamas, denounced the charges and challenged Egyptian prosecutors to present evidence that the group had any involvement with the prison breaks. Gehad el-Haddad, a spokesman for the Brotherhood, noted the investigation amounted to a repudiation of the revolt that toppled Mr. Mubarak and “might increase the number of angry people on the ground.” “It will only help strengthen the realization that the Mubarak state is back,” he told reporters. At this stage, the government made clear that negotiations with the Muslim Brotherhood are off the table, burying the faction’s chances to be permitted back into Egypt’s political arena. Outlawed under Mubarak’s era the Brotherhood is once again forced back underground, right back where it started. Undeterred, the Brotherhood has remained defiant, demanding President Morsi’s reinstatement as a precondition for any negotiations and mounting daily demonstrations. The group’s leaders quickly labeled General Sisi’s plea for street demonstrations as a call to “civil war.” Its leaders insist that they are not seeking confrontation or violence. “This is a preparation for eliminating the Brotherhood,” said Emad Shahin, a political science professor at American University in Cairo. “And of course it reduces the chance of Morsi coming back in any way.” On Friday, tens of thousands of Islamists marched on dozens of planned routes in Cairo and other cities. “Our blood and souls we will sacrifice for Islam,” some protesters chanted, while others chanted Morsi’s name and held posters bearing his face. With Egypt fast edging toward a civil war, it is the region which risks to fall prey to instability; an entire nation sacrificed on the pyre of political grid by the Saudi state. In fear of an Islamic democratic Middle East, which regimes would ultimately challenge its autocracy, Saudi Arabia never tolerated the rise of the Brotherhood, a group the Royals abhor above all else. And while the US was willing to work with the Brotherhood, keen to seal a new alliance, more in keeping with the times, the Kingdom worked to see its men restored to power. While Egyptians might not realize it yet, their country has become but a pawn in a race for control over the Middle East and the destruction of a new democratic model, an Arabic Islamic Democratic model.
Posted on: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 14:16:28 +0000
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