Egypt’s patriotism without the noise of Brotherhood terrorism
Brotherhood is still striving to return to the political scene in Egypt, trying to provoke controversy over its participation in the comprehensive national dialogue called for by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, but it is a dialogue created by a national environment in which the noise of terrorism and its components and organizations, especially the Brotherhood, was excluded.
After years of the Brotherhood’s failure in Egypt to jump on economic and societal issues to gain even a small space in the public scene, the group developed its tools by inventing and rejecting illusion.
During the past hours, a front within the three fronts quarreling over the leadership of the Brotherhood in Egypt issued a statement declaring its refusal to participate in a national dialogue to which the organization had not invited in the first place.
The statement issued by the “General Office” said, “What has been raised recently about some regimes communicating with some leaders of the group to arrange a settlement with the authority in Egypt, within a regional project (..), and as we clarify from the outset that the General Office of the Brotherhood neither confirms nor denies those However, we confirm that we have not and will not be part of such arrangements if they occur.”
The group is apparently betting that the controversy accompanying the announcement of a dialogue with the authority in Cairo will pave the way for the group’s return to the political scene from which it was removed by a massive popular revolution on June 30, 2013.
Observers said that the group, as always, is trying to fish in troubled waters, taking advantage of some events to build illusions, pointing to a visit by the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad, to Cairo weeks before an upcoming summit that brings together US President Joe Biden with the leaders of the Gulf states, in which Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi will participate.
Last April, the Egyptian president called for the activation of a presidential pardon committee for political prisoners and the establishment of a national dialogue with civil forces, but the group apparently chose to ignore the authority’s assertion that the pardon would not include those involved in violence cases, and not to invite the leaders of the terrorist organization.
Egypt classifies the Brotherhood as a terrorist organization, bans its activities, and lists its members and leaders on the list of terrorism.
The statement came two days after the Egyptian parliamentarian, member of the presidential pardon committee, Tariq Al-Khouli, confirmed the exclusion of the inclusion of members of the terrorist Brotherhood in “amnesty or national dialogue.”
In an interview last Thursday, Tariq al-Khouli told Al-Ain News that he “does not tolerate” the Brotherhood’s youth and members of the organization, stressing that it is an organization that committed acts of violence and does not believe in the idea of building the nation from the ground up and raised the slogan of either ruling or burning the country.
Over the past years, the leaders and cadres of the group have been convicted of espionage and terrorism cases, and some of them have been sentenced to death or life imprisonment.
For his part, Mounir Adib, an expert on Islamic groups and international terrorism, said that the statement was issued by the terrorist organization’s third front, which is the true nucleus of the “Hasm” terrorist movement, which represents the most radical wing of the Brotherhood, which raised the slogan of adopting violence without equivocation.
Two main forces are fighting for the leadership of the organization, the Front of Mahmoud Hussein, the former Secretary-General of the Brotherhood, and the Front of Ibrahim Munir, the acting leader of the Brotherhood (not recognized by the other front after it was removed from his position).
In addition to the vertical rift from the top of the organization to its base, there are other side fissures for forces within the Brotherhood, including the General Office.
Munir’s front does not mind accepting the invitation to dialogue, but its aspirations are always dashed with the refusal of the authority in Egypt to engage in dialogue with the terrorist organization, especially in light of the popular rejection of any dialogue with the group.
Adeeb added that the fronts of Hussein and Munir had already announced their willingness to conditionally participate in the dialogue.
I agree with Adeeb, writer and researcher in the affairs of terrorist groups, Amr Farouk, and he saw that the General Office has no influence on foreign leaders and lacks the support and backing of the international organization.
Farouk explained to “Al-Ain News” that despite international speculation, it has not been proven that there is any dialogue between the Egyptian authority and the terrorist organization.
He added that the statement is trying to undermine any positive step taken by the Egyptian authority and the situation in general, stressing that this group represents the wing that directly adopts violence in cooperation with other groups.
In his article, the Egyptian writer Tariq Abu Al-Saad believes that the Egyptian president’s call for national dialogue, which he launched during the Egyptian family’s breakfast during the past Ramadan, revealed the depth of opportunism and immorality in the values of the Brotherhood, which exploited the call for dialogue to infiltrate the opposition and drag themselves as a civil political force. escaping forward.
Abu Al-Saad says in his article that “the Brotherhood, on every occasion in which the Egyptian president speaks to the people, arbitrarily interprets some of his words as evidence of the approaching reconciliation between them. Morsi thought that it was their chance, and their delusion reached to the utmost extent, so they claimed that President Sisi is the one who insists on reconciliation and that they are the ones who reject it.
The writer concludes that the reality confirms that the leaders of the Brotherhood realize before others that the atmosphere is not in their favor, after it became clear that they were unable to return again, and their failure to provoke anger in the Egyptian street by exploiting the severe and recurring economic crises on all occasions, and their failure to reach a solution to their problems. The Ministry of the Interior, the failure to reach an agreement through mediators to reduce the sentences for prisoners of their followers, so they made sure that the Egyptian state is in a stable political and security situation, and that it is in its weakest condition, it did not accept dialogue or reconciliation with them, so what is the motive for accepting reconciliation with a dissident faction and isolated socially and politically and popularly isolated.
