Fatima, a 23-year-old girl, could not have imagined that she would face all these electronic attacks of incitement, slander, and threatening messages on her family's phones demanding they discipline their daughter and teach her the principles of the Islamic religion. This came after the girl posted an interrogative question on one of the closed women's groups on the Telegram app, asking, "Is jihad when the Hamas group imposes a unified dress code of abaya and hijab on everyone, even Christians, inside Gaza schools, and arrests and kills the families of the students from the Fatah group condemning this arbitrary decision?"
Fatima's question opened the door to attacks on her morals and honor, even to the point of declaring her an apostate, monitoring her social media accounts, reaching her family members, sending insulting and slanderous messages, questioning their upbringing, and even declaring her father an apostate. The group administrator, who hid all her personal information but apparently forgot to remove a photo of a woman raising the Muslim Brotherhood's Rabaa sign from her account, sent links to electronic pages belonging to so-called committed sisters to help Fatima's parents raise their daughter according to the correct Islamic doctrine.
The Muslim Brotherhood: A Globally Despised Faction
This incident invites us to learn about the current role of Muslim Brotherhood women in the organization. This coincides with the decline of international support for the Brotherhood following the Arab-Turkish rapprochement and the exchange of official visits between Turkey, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia. Erdogan has announced the closure of the Muslim Brotherhood file in Turkey, the downsizing of their channels, and their targeted media. In addition, there was a split between the two rival factions competing for the leadership of the group: the London and Istanbul fronts. The Brotherhood has announced that they will not engage in any new presidential election conflicts and have simultaneously cut off some of their leadership, coinciding with a decrease in financial support for the group. In 2022, the British media acknowledged that the Muslim Brotherhood is experiencing its worst times.
Muslim Brotherhood Women: A Tool for Soft Infiltration and Survival
Muslim Brotherhood women are no longer just a tool for pleasure amid the flight of men and the scarcity of new recruits due to security crackdowns. The decline of the organization's spread within pivotal countries, including Egypt and Tunisia, has led to the activation of the role of Muslim Brotherhood women on social media to repair the organization's crumbling popularity, polish its image, hide its distortions, and portray it as a non-political Islamic group with social goals. This is an attempt to help the remnants of the organization's structures in Europe withstand political and economic changes. This occurs as follows:
Manufacturing Militant Hashtags
Decentralized electronic women's cells rely on launching hashtags on social media, focusing on Twitter to delude followers with misconceptions that serve their agenda, such as "Leave, Sisi," "Sell the Suez Canal," and "Not from our pockets." These are intended to provoke public opinion and mobilize Egyptians to demonstrate against the Egyptian political leadership that toppled the Brotherhood with popular will in 2013. They also attempt to exploit the global economic crisis's consequences of rising consumer goods prices in Egypt, which is part of the world, and make unfair comparisons to the prices of the same goods during the year the Brotherhood ruled Egypt. The suggestion is that the solution to the crises Egypt is experiencing is tied to the return of the Brotherhood to power.
Mockery and ridicule of internal and external politics, as well as government decisions, have been observed through the widespread distribution of videos presented by an Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood woman (N.A) who has fled to Canada. These videos, followed by a million people on social media platforms, contain satirical content aimed at undermining citizens' confidence in their Egyptian leadership and demanding a withdrawal of trust from the government. The content suggests that everything the government does is trivial and does not address the miserable living and social conditions of the people, while also undermining the prestige of state institutions and their men through mockery, jokes, and breaking their dignity by promoting a culture of psychological terror and cultural assassination.
Light programs are used to share daily life on social media pages, including cooking recipes, decorations, skincare, and health tips. However, the underlying focus is on "putting poison in honey" by comparing prices and availability of goods and products in the current market under President Sisi's rule. (A.A), the program's presenter and the wife of a Brotherhood leader and the head of a news network (Sh.R), recommends books that serve the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood to her followers. This Brotherhood woman has 5 million followers.
The distortion of religious, scientific, and economic symbols by taking statements out of context and exploiting the emotional side of female followers and their concerns about education, health, and jobs to secure their children's future has been observed in truncated statements published under hashtags like "Central Bank", "Work of the Corrupt", and "Departure of Tarek Shawky".
The focus is on issues that concern citizens and raise women's concerns, such as rising food prices, electricity bills, and gasoline prices. Pictures taken from a single angle show women crying after the removal of urban encroachments on agricultural lands and the demolition of illegal buildings on both sides of Cairo's Ring Road. The decision of the Egyptian state to provide alternative housing and financial compensation to ensure a decent life for the affected families is deliberately hidden.
In summary, the subtle infiltration of the Muslim Brotherhood organization through women, specifically in Egypt, is an attempt to regain their presence in society after their masks have been removed and they have been rejected by the Egyptian community. The awareness of Arab citizens is the greatest guarantee of their impending demise.
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