Why did the citizen start to feel the weakness of the regime, let alone the control of the Muslim Brotherhood over the presidency for the benefit of its members? This was clear when the streets were abandoned. As a citizen, I know there are thugs and I know you don't have the ability to deter them. You, as a president, should not justify thuggery but rather put an end to it.
Let's go back to the distribution of spoils to the Brotherhood, as some of their men said, this was just a repayment of a favor.
The distribution of state positions became a kind of favor repayment and not for efficiency or responsibility.
In contrast to all this criticism directed at the Muslim Brotherhood, which began ruling Egypt from June 30, 2012, what did the group do in response?
As we mentioned, they employed electronic battalions on the internet and through SMS messages on all satellite channels and radio networks. The sole purpose of these battalions was to drum up any act performed by the Brotherhood and to fiercely attack any individual against the group, even if he was an honest advisor.
Furthermore, they used the weapon of Islam, claiming that anyone opposing the president and the Brotherhood was opposing the law of Allah, and what was happening was nothing but a declared war on Islam.
They tried to attract the sympathy of the masses in this way. Some leaders in the Muslim Brotherhood (Safwat Hegazi) and some loyal Islamic currents (Asim Abdulmajid - Wajdi Ghoneim) stated that those who oppose the president's legitimacy will be sprinkled with blood and are nothing but infidels. At the same time, there was silence from the presidency about such talk.
Many realize that this weapon is weak and flimsy, because anyone who wants to wage war on Islam would have started it during Mubarak's rule and not when the Muslim Brotherhood is in power.
It may be said that the war was declared on Islam after this Islamic group escalated to power.
But the question is: When did the law of Allah become a weapon of threat?
Also: Why does Sharia and religion appear at the time of attacking the Muslim Brotherhood and not when the group seizes state positions?
When religion was used and hit with, a wave led by Islamic and Christian satellite channels appeared, creating a state of continuous media chatter and accusations to the extent of insulting and slandering religious figures and personalities.
A state of continuous agitation on all levels created a state of fanaticism for limitless ideas on the street. Among these are personal ideas and inclinations, and the thought of thuggery to the extent that cases of theft and kidnapping spread in the streets of Cairo in broad daylight and in its most active and vibrant places.
In addition to that, matters spread that were intended to tighten the citizen, such as continuous price increases due to the absence of state control, and electricity outages, which has many damages reflected on the citizen with the continuing crises of the absence of diesel and gasoline, which appeared in the second half of June 2013.
In contrast to these crises, the dominant talk on the minds of the group and those who support them is that those who oppose legitimacy are against Islam. And it is said modestly that the right to demonstrate is guaranteed as long as it is peaceful.
Calls from the presidency appear on the scene, deciding to open dialogue with opposition fronts. In one of the speeches, the president confirms that he is ready to go anywhere for dialogue, deliberately or ignorantly forgetting that dialogue is not just invitations and sessions ending in recommendations and decisions of no value, because what will actually be implemented is what is approvedin the office of the Muslim Brotherhood's Guidance Bureau.
This is what Professor Heikal affirmed in his conversation with Lamis Al Hadidi on Thursday, June 27, 2013, when he said that the time is no longer for the intellectual guardian or the spiritual father of the political leader. If indeed the group rules from the Guidance Office, they should openly declare this.
(To be continued)
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