Ayoon wa Azan (The Brotherhood are sacrificing Egypt)

Hundreds of Egyptians have been killed the past two days and I hold the Muslim Brotherhood responsible for their death. They encouraged their supporters to confront the security forces because they wished for the fall of casualties, which would help them gain the sympathy of the enemies of Egyptians and Arabs. The MB group wishes to see 1,000 dead victims or more, because this is an “attractive” figure. During their eighty years of work in the public sphere, the MB leaders have always embodied the principles of death and destruction. They have always conspired against the Egyptian governments, both monarchal and republican. They also conspired against other Arab states. This is no personal opinion of mine but rather a well known historical fact. I have heard statements from Gulf state rulers such as: “When the Muslim Brotherhood were persecuted in Egypt and Syria, we took them in and provided them with a place to stay. They responded by conspiring against us with local tribal leaders.” I also listened to some of their old recordings. Eighty years later, the Muslim Brotherhood acceded to power in Egypt by riding the wave of the youth revolution at the end, when the revolution seemed on its way to succeed. The Brotherhood won the legislative elections and said that none of them will be running for presidency. However, two MB members presented themselves as candidates and Mohamed Morsi won by rigging the democratic elections. The commanders of the Military Council wanted to limit themselves to their military work away from politics. They believed that, thanks to their high level of organization, the MB would be able to organize a massive protest every day. They thus announced Mohamed Morsi as president. Maj. Gen. Omar Suleiman, may God have mercy on his soul, told me that the people of the Military Council are “idiots” while the Brotherhood group “are not. They are laughing at them.” Ultimately, in just one year, the Muslim Brotherhood caused more destruction than Hosni Mubarak’s regime did in thirty years. The Egyptian people rebelled against them through massive protests where the number of participants exceeded that of the 2011 revolution. The Brotherhood destroyed the once prosperous but corruption-ridden economy. They fought the economy and kept the corruption, allowing it to spread out in a vertical manner from the very bottom all the way to the top. The figures of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund represent indicators of the performance of the Brotherhood in power: the value of the local Egyptian currency dropped, prices increased, foreign investments stopped, and tourism in this country, which includes one third of the ancient world’s artifacts, was destroyed. But they denied all this and lied to God and to the people. All what they care about is to impose their own ideas on all the Egyptians. They know nothing about democracy and reject any other point of view in the country. They prefer to pray in front of the cameras then do some actual work. As for foreign politics, throughout that sinister year of their time in power, the MB had a good relationship with Israel and the United States – so much so that I consider the so-called Arab Spring to be Israel’s Spring. Israel is the only party that benefitted from that spring at the expense of Egypt and the entire Arab nation. We recently heard that President Barack Obama canceled the joint military trainings of the American and the Egyptian forces in order to “punish” Egypt for the fall of victims. We are supposed to believe that the country that supports the criminal state of Israel is actually sorry for the fall of Egyptian victims. This is open imposture and deliberate failure to designate the parties responsible for the killing of the protesters and the sit-in participants. Had they cleared the squares, there wouldn’t have been a single death or injury. The MB leaders wanted their naïve supporters to be killed in the hope of obtaining gains as a result. I feel angry while I write this piece, and one is probably more honest with one’s self and the others when one is in a state of anger and failing to ponder the repercussions of every word and position. I defended the Muslim Brotherhood during the Hosni Mubarak era. I stood up for them in the aftermath of the 2010 elections and I addressed the president in this column twice where I wrote that the elections “are not exact.” I also wrote once that the elections are “rigged” and must be held again because it is impossible for the MB to fail to win a single seat at the parliament. Today, I am also standing up for them based on the principle of democracy, which is unknown to them. I believe that the Brotherhood must play a part in Egypt’s future because they represent a group (I won’t say a herd) of people. That being said, I condemn the terrorism they have produced, from Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan to the terrorism in New York and Washington, in addition to Sinai and Egypt (in the 1990s and up until this day) and everywhere. The views expressed by the author do not necessarily represent or reflect the editorial policy of Arab Today.