Ayoon wa Azan (The experience of the 1990s terrorism)

The Muslim Brothers are responsible for every dead and wounded victim that fell during the Friday protests. Indeed, the popular protests against them had settled the matter and the Egyptian people rebelled, because they failed to rule Egypt on every aspect. This ended up with the ousting of Mohammad Morsi on July 3, through a popular uprising that should make the Egyptians and Arabs proud. This was not a coup. I hope that we will not be re-living through the experience of the 1990s in Egypt. The Muslim Brothers failed in power. Hence, they took to the street and practiced violence, the only tool that they excel at using. I believe that violence will fail and fire back at those who use it, just like it did two decades ago. I used the term violence rather than terrorism. However, terrorism is being practiced in Sinai, by groups that have a similar train of thought as the MBs. As a result, the terrorist there are killing cops. They claim to belong to the Sunni sect and are killing Sunni cops. The only winning party from the terrorism in Sinai is Israel. Indeed, Israel is just sitting back and watching the Muslims kill each other. The Muslim Brothers are not confined to the Egyptian borders. The MB dogma has supporters in every Arab country. I believe that all the Arab Muslim Brothers will pay the price for the group’s mistakes in Egypt and the crimes of the group’s supporters everywhere else. It is sufficient to recall the incident, during which an MB gang tossed two kids from the roof of a building. Some western newspapers carried interviews with other kids who were on the same roof and who escaped death on the hand of the terrorists. During the times of the civil peace, I used to leave Al-Hayat’s offices in Garden City and walk to the Semiramis Hotel, then cross the Tahrir Square to reach the headquarters of the Arab League. The Tahrir Square used to be Cairo’s beating heart and I was happy to see the people and practice the sports of risking my life by crossing the street amidst the cars. Today, the Tahrir Square is witnessing sexual harassment incidents against women. Human Rights groups are even issuing monthly statistics about this. I read about nineteen harassment of rape incidents during January and there no less than nine of ten incidents happened in the subsequent months. Is this really taking place in Egypt?! I will try to avoid being insulting or rude while making a comparison between the Egyptian leadership now and the rule of Mohammad Morsi. I will just say that Adli mansour, the head of the Higher Constitutional Tribunal who became the interim president, is more capable of running the country than his predecessor. The same goes for Hazem al-Beblawi, and I respect Mohammad Kamel Amr, who resigned from the ministry of foreign affairs in addition to other ministers. However, I am very excited about having Nabil Fahmy in the post of foreign minister, because he has a personal and national history that is honorable. It is enough for me that he is the son of Ismail Fahmy, that great patriotic minister, may God have mercy on his soul. Al-Beblawi’s cabinet is able to fix the mess of the Muslim Brothers’ rule. The Arab support is also on the way. However, the MB group prefers the persistence of destruction even if that means that the Egyptian citizens will be denied their most basic daily needs. The success of the interim phase will highlight the failure of the Brothers. Their quest to collect the spoils of the battle has stopped them from seeing their enemies uniting again and toppling them. If Mohammad Morsi is the first civil president who accessed power via democratic elections, the next president will also be a civil one and he will be elected via democratic elections, in light of a better constitution and the rule of law that the MB group had tried to Islamize. The latter also complained that the judges are biased towards the old Mubarak regime, overlooking the fact that the Egyptian judiciary had clashed with Hosni Mubarak before clashing with the Brothers. Finally, nothing is more indicative of the Egyptian Brothers’ mistakes than the statement of their Guide, Mohammad Badih, who was as ignorant and arrogant as to say that the ousting of Mohammad Morsi is a crime that outweighs the destruction of the Kaaba. Can a failed president be compared to the Kaaba?! Badih’s statement indicates that the group only cares for its own interests and has no concern for Egypt and its people. Had the leaders of the Muslim Brothers been able to think straight, they would have not defeated themselves. It seems that the MBs are still unable to think straight, since they are proceeding with the self-destruction and the destruction of Egypt. They are failing to see that the Egyptian people, to which they claim to belong, are the victims of their clumsy politics. The views expressed by the author do not necessarily represent or reflect the editorial policy of Arabstoday.