@mskamel
Original
published in Arabic on: September 29, 2013
The
world was shocked severely by the evolution
of the situation in Egypt. No one imagined that the police and Egyptian army
reached this level of deterioration. Although precedents of
the Egyptian police may qualify for bullying
and murder, but the heinous crimes
that we have witnessed in the streets of
Egypt over the past months at the
hands of the Egyptian police and army
have exceeded all the crimes
committed by that bullying during
the Mubarak era. Joined
by the Egyptian army for the first time
in its history, these heinous crimes exceeded
all what we know of Egyptian history
and introduced the
deliberate mass murder
for the first time in the political equation. A deliberate transfer of
the Egyptian people
from peaceful people to people who don’t care about
death nor disgusted
from the smell of human blood.
However, the tragedy was huge to an intolerable extend as we witnessed it deteriorating
to a level were Sky News Middle East
Correspondent Sam Kiley, reporting from inside the Rabaa al Adawiya camp in the
capital, said it was "under very heavy gunfire" and was a
"massive military assault on largely unarmed civilians in very large
numbers". He said government forces were using machine guns, snipers,
AK-47 and M16 rifles and were firing into the crowd.
Kiley added:
"There are machine gun rounds, and snipers on the roof, that are
preventing people from getting any closer to the field hospital (in the camp)
…..I haven't seen any evidence yet of any weapons on the side of the pro-Morsi
camp. The camp is very full of women and children."
He said it
was a scene of "extreme chaos and bloodshed" and "many hundreds
of troops and interior ministry police and Special Forces are involved….The
dead and dying are on the steps of an improvised field hospital. The scenes
here are absolutely graphic…I have covered many wars and this is as severe a
battlefield as I have witnessed, with the exception of scenes in Rwanda. There
are dozens and dozens of people who have been shot in the head, neck and upper
body."*
Despite the tragedy, which began
when military controlled the government in Egypt after the coup, the case has
not been settled for those who did it, or those who have paved the road for it,
nor who is portraying it as a revolution. If we reviewed last year’s events, we
will discover to what extent the liberals deliberately worked hard to derail
the democratic process, insisting not to give it any chance of success, and
today they are requesting that Egyptians give an opportunity to the coup’s roadmap
to succeed after liquidating politically and physically the only party capable of
tackling the corruption of the Mubarak regime, the regime that is returning
stronger than before with its worst elements. Egyptian’s liberals committed the
greatest folly in history!
In that James Traub the author of
Foreign Policy in his essay "the dark side of liberals Said “....He [Morsy]
was a bad president, and an increasingly unpopular one. But nations with no
historical experience of democracy do not usually get an effective or
liberal-minded ruler the first time around. Elections give citizens a chance to
try again. With a little bit of patience, the opposition could have defeated
Morsy peacefully. Instead, by colluding in the banishment of the Brotherhood
from political life, they are about to replace one tyranny of the majority with
another. And since many Islamists, now profoundly embittered, will not accept
that new rule, the new tyranny of the majority will have to be more brutally
enforced than the old one.
Since Egypt's liberals seem more
consumed by hatred of the Brotherhood than the Brothers were by the liberals.
Liberalism itself can become a
form of zealotry. This is the dark place in which Egypt now finds itself….”
We need to
follow the evolution of the coup and the events to realize that the result of
this coup is the return of the Mubarak regime without him personally, which is sought
by this gang that wished to get rid of him because he became a heavy burden on
them.
I began watching Morsi during the
second round of the presidential elections in June 2012, and like many, I gave
him my vote so Mubarak’s regime represented in Shafiq doesn’t come back.
However, different from others, I considered that this stage strategy requires
standing beside Morsi and behind the Muslim Brotherhood until the end of his
first term because I am convinced that the battle with the ‘deep state’ is one
of the most important battles and represents the first priority to give Morsi
and the Muslim Brotherhood a full opportunity. I was not concerned with the success of the MB
or lack thereof, but my top priority was the success of the new born democracy and
the elimination of the corrupt Mubarak state.
However, those who call
themselves liberals demanded President Morsi to be revolutionary, and when he
tried and used his constitutional privilege to isolate the Attorney General they
stood against him. Liberals refused giving Morsi any chance, and worked from
the first day to insure his failure. Where he faced the ‘deep state’ on his own,
but liberals and beneficiaries helped this ‘deep state’, and deliberately
forgetting that throughout the year Morsi worked through:
-
Media that
grew in corruption, already corrupted during the Mubarak era, and continues to play its divisible and
frustration until today;
-
A corrupted judicial
system that has permitted corruption, including the Supreme Constitutional Court and the Attorney
General;
- Police
that is the enemy of reform and a hotbed of abuse
and corruption that refused to be fixed and
to serve the people, and today it is deliberately
destroying the country;
-
An education system built on
the destruction and
sabotage;
-
An economical system that
collapsed and is serving the corruption.
Despite all that President
Morsi worked in
several arenas increasing the hatred of the revolution
enemy within and out of Egypt, among those arenas:
-
The re-establishing
of Egypt's foreign links, Iran, Syria, China, Africa ...
-
Adoption of the constitution and
democratic system
- Didn’t dice any of the media that is full of hatred, Morsi is known as the president mostly attacked by the
media.
It was natural that the
remnants
of
the
Mubarak regime allied to defend their interests and survival, united with the
liberals
in their hatred of the Muslim Brotherhood
and
even
Islamists
in general, some of whom hated Islam itself.
In an attempt
to
understand how these so called ‘liberals’ that boast to
defend freedoms and rights, then stood behind the
coup,
legitimizing
it and denying rights and freedoms to those who opposed
and
disagreed.
So,
I went to listen to their interpretation,
what
I
heard
was
the real coup against values and declining
of
the
principles that were long chanted, they are:
-
Took advantage of the
economic suffering and accused the Muslim Brotherhood of negligence and
indifference towards the ordinary citizen, and empowered whom behind that
suffering;
-
Took advantage of the
energy crisis, which was manufactures, planned and executed by the Mubarak
regime and remnants of the deep state;
-
Chanted deliberately
misleading quotes like ‘MB taking a full control of the state’ “Akhawana”, forgetting
that if it is true, it is normal to enable the system to govern, allegation that
proved to be false and it became clear that MB have no control over any of the
State’s agencies;
-
Falsely charged MB of
terrorism, relying on propaganda orchestrated by Mubarak’s media and composite
images and incredible allegations, sometimes linking terrorism with MB resistance
movement against the British occupation of Egypt during the 30th and
40th of the last century.
-
Charged MB of hatred and
intolerance, based on statements of some ignorant Islamists, by amplifying
their takes and refusing to recognise the existence of counter arguments.
-
Claimed that the MB are
anti-minority, while they are aware that the one that persecuted minorities is
the same one that persecuted the Muslim majority, the Mubarak regime is the one
that arranged and carried out the attacks against the minorities (Churches as
example), led by his security forces.
-
Chanted nonsenses that Morsi
is an agent of Hamas, and of tampering in Sinai are the enemies of Egypt, Hamas
and Palestine, while they know more than any other that these charges are
unreasonable and unfounded.
-
Chanted absurdities, that
Egyptian intelligence services proved Morsi’s treason earlier, before January
25, 2011, and surprisingly they allowed him to run and become the president of
Egypt for a year!
-
Worked very hard to drive a
wedge between the Egyptians and the other Arab people, such as Syrians and
Palestinians, don’t forget Mubarak's regime and his media’s position from
Algerians in the past.
-
Claimed that the 30 million
Egyptians came out on June 30, 2013 to demand the departure of Morsi, figures that
can’t stand up in front of any logical analyses. Claiming falsely that
"Google" and "BBC" counted them! A claim that was denied by
both of them. If this is a real figure, this means that one-third of all the
inhabitants of Egypt, and more than half of adults went to the street!
-
Claimed that 22 million
Egyptians signed the rebellion ‘Tamorod’ forms.
It was ok for them to repeat illogical and questionable figures.
-
Refused documented surveys
showing that the majority refused Morsi’s removal, and tried to counter these
surveys with uncredited statements.
-
Did not find it derogatory the
remnants of the National Party, Mubarak regime’s participation in the June 30th
demonstrations.
-
Did not reject the return
of the Mubarak regime represented in the security forces, his Attorney General,
and his ministers.
-
Many of them called June 30
as the revolution, and some even denied that of January 25, and this is what
Mubarak’s regime seeks.
-
Spreading the photos of coup
leader and songs glorifying him, and a campaign for his candidacy for the
presidency.
-
Repeating what Mubarak’s
regime said about the revolution, describing the sit-in rejection to the coup
as dens of drugs and sex, and bear arms.
-
Did not mind the killings
of thousands of those opposing the coup.
-
Not ashamed of supporting
the coup, and justifying it
-
A few of them called for
breaking up a sit-in claiming that this sit-in is disrupting daily life and
have a negative impact on the economy and the rebuilding of Egypt. While they refused
all calls to help the rebuilding throughout a full year.
To soothe their conscience, those
pro-coup are claiming that there is no difference between what the army did on
February 11, 2011 and that of July 3, 2013, ignoring that in 2011 there was a
despot ruining the country and nestling for nearly forty years, 1975 to 2011. There was no mechanism for peaceful and
democratic change, and in 2013 there was a democratically elected regime.
But why the coup was planned for
this time:
-
A plan to provide bread and
wheat began to bear fruit
-
Starting the practical
steps for developing the banks of the Suez Canal
-
In spite of that relentless
campaign, polls confirmed that 65% of Egyptians refused the removal of Morsi (
http://www.ecmeg.com/?p=65)
-
Although that relentless
campaign, polls confirmed that Morsi enjoyed a high acceptance rate, 52% on
June 28, 2013, which is very high for any president after a year in power,
especially under those circumstances.
-
While that relentless
campaign, polls confirmed that if parliamentary elections took place at that
time (June 15, 2013) Islamists will receive 68% of the seats
-
At this time, President
Morsi had prepared a law by which the police will be reformed and five thousand
of its corrupted officers would be forced into retirement. Those are the leaders whom own personal
interests are in conflicts with the success of the revolution
-
At this time, President Morsi
had prepared the Judiciary Act by which thousands of corrupted judges and
attorneys would be forced into retirement.
Those are the crew and back bone of the Mubarak regime
-
If the parliamentary
election took place it would be a realization of the constitution which
although some have reservation on a few of its articles, it would have isolated
the remnants of the Mubarak regime and would controlled the armed forces' role
in politics.
It is unfortunate that this
happened with the support of some of January 25 revolutionaries, and today they
are failing and denying it, and of those who thought it to be July 23
supporters whom exploited and abused it and resembled the traitor (Sisi) with
Naser, who is highly respected in Egypt as the national leader.
After these months, what the coup
did to enable it to rule:
- Many of Morsi’s opponents and stood
against him asking him to resign, today they stand in the same trench with the
MB and getting closer every day, not in defense of the MB, but in defense of
the revolution and democracy, which is being hit day and night.
- International condemnation of the coup, the African
Union suspended the
membership of the
founder of Egypt! Amnesty International condemns the coup
government and denouncing
its methods.
- Only a few countries
formally recognized the coup,
among them the UAE, Saudi Arabia and
Israel, in addition
to the Syrian regime, and lately US administration.
- Deepening the divide
between the Egyptians.
- Clearing Morsi’s
mistakes, his mistakes is looking as act of angels compared to the coup.
- Showed the
true face of those who claim to be revolutionaries, then supported the coup, and those who are siding with the revolution until now.
This is a warning of a dark future made by the coup and its supporters, and, unfortunately, the consequence will hit the entire region, not Egypt only. Unless we wake up to the
reality of the coup, the shock will be appalling greater than the shock
of the failure to achieve any progress in Egypt at the hands of the MB and the results will be devastating
The coup proved that contrary to misguided claims,
MB are the ones that believe in and defend democracy, while liberals are the one whom turned against democracy when it didn’t serve their purpose.
Egyptian liberals committed the worst sin ever, by supporting a coup to erase Morsi’s mistakes, history
will
narrate that in the June 30, 2013 sector of
the Egyptian people committed a mass suicide, for the first time in history!
Morsi’s mistakes
do not equal to
the sin of a coup and despicable conspiracy
to revolt. We have to review history
and avoid the experience of Chile, Romania, Spain and
others, but we have to keep in mind what
was conducted by Venezuela to fall the coup.
In spite of all this, we still
have the time that allows the patriot liberals to regain their position for a principal stand, correct their position and join
the peaceful resistance and participate in the overthrow
of the coup. The Trusty
honest is the one to admit mistakes
before it is too late.
Forgive us
Egypt, it is the counter revolution.
* Mohamed S. Kamel: is a Freelance writer, the editor of http://forafreeegypt.blogspot.com/, he is a professional
engineer, a LEED Green Associate and a recognized project manager professional,
he is Member of several civil society organizations, a co-founder of the Egyptian
Canadian Coalition for Democracy (ECCD-CECD(,
Canadian Egyptian for Democracy (CEFD), National Association for Change in
Egypt (Taghyeer – Canada), Association of the Egyptians of Montreal (AEM),
Alternative Perspective Media (APM-RAM), , Quebec Antiwar movement “Échec à la
Guerre”, Coalition for Justice and Peace in Palestine “CJPP”, ex-president and
co-founder of the Canadian Muslim Forum (CMF), member of the board of trustee
in the Canadian Muslim for Palestine (CMP) and Community Center for Montreal
Muslims (CCMM) . He could be reached at public@mohamedkamel.com and followed at @mskamel
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