The End of The Honeymoon is coming Near

What is now now happening in Egypt assures what I have said before. Now the military Supreme Council is in a state of clash with the demonstrators, protesters, secular movements, socialists, communists, liberals and even Copts. On the other hand it is in a state of indulgence with the Islamists with all their political spectra whether parties or groups. This means that they live in a honeymoon together. However, the Military Supreme Council and the government deny they use of any kind of violence against the protesters and they say that thugs are attacking both the army, protesters and the public property. I have written an article entitled "Between the hammer and the anvil is the scapegoat". I just put the article here again just to discover who are the thugs? Are they some remnants of the ousted regime? whose situation is going to be condemned? Who benefits of the situation? Why doesn t the government or the army want to reveal or expose who are those thugs?

Here is the article again: In the next article we are going to explore who are the thugs according to who benefits from the situation of exhausting the army and the police.

I had intended not to write on the Egyptian question since my article titled “Revolutionary Anarchy” on March 23rd 2011 as my speculations about the Egyptian up-rise are now coming true; (http://www.ahewar.org/eng/show.art.asp?aid=1296). It is remarkably manifested that the events of January 25th revolution have been swerved off its main course objectives: justice, equality, freedom, citizenship and patriotism to pour in one-direction stream which is that of Islamists. It is obviously projected that the situation in Egypt is so critical and chaotic that we can say Egypt’s labor has turned into a state of abortion with a diseased or dying embryo or fetus, where the efforts of claimed physicians, nurses, surgeons, relatives and even midwives have gone foggier, if not futile and vain, simply because they are not specialized in the philosophy of revolutionary safe delivery or reformation. And because the onset protesters who included a lot of spectra of different attitudes, perspectives and demeanors, were mostly politically inexperienced youths; and without any intellectual or philosophical leadership, they thought that with the unexpected expulsion of some of the regime-head individuals they attained their aims. With the downfall of some of the regime personalities, it is widely thought that the fruit has fallen. With the fall of the fruit many hungry-for-authority powers ran, crowded, thronged, squeezed, nudged, and jostled to pick it up. Except for January 25th revolutionary youths who were the only factor who succeeded in dropping the fruit, all powers on the Egyptian stage are playing the game of chairs and thrones, each with their hammer and the anvil between which is the scapegoat.

The revolutionary youths may not have realized that it is easy to change persons and characters, but it is rather hard, yet not impossible, and it needs a lot of time, effort, experience and education to change systems or regimes. The revolutionary youths seemed to have had a great influence on the folk who, out of intuitional emotions of full enthusiasm against unbearable oppression went out on January 25th 2011 with only one aim of change; to oust the regime head and his assistants. No powers or parties could hold, persevere, keep staunch or claim to have started and made the change except the revolutionary youths of January 25th 2011. Many of them were beaten, injured, abraded, chafed, excoriated and others were killed. Their feat has resulted in three ramifications: the oust of President Hosny Mubark and some of his entourages, the military Supreme Council taking over the executive power, and the emergence of other powers; some of them are more organized personnel and politically more expert connoisseurs, especially Muslim Brotherhood; while others are still crawling in the political ally. Thus, besides the military Supreme Council and Muslim Brotherhood, on the stage appeared the Fundamentalist Groups and their parties, the Islamic Groups and their parties, the thugs and mobs, the secular movements or parties and the downtrodden and oppressed Copts. Even though there are some disputes and disagreements in the techniques and means among the one group, they all agree to have the cake for themselves without sharing it with any. To achieve this goal, some play the role of the hammer; some play the role of the anvil while the latter group is always the scapegoat. However, the forger’s role is played by only most influential two; the military Supreme Council and the Muslim Brotherhood who manipulate the folk and the naives.

Religions in general and Islam in particular with their clergymen obstinately and tenaciously claim to possess the absolute fact; and they insist that everything on earth should lead to their absolute fact; or else this thing must not exist. In other words, apart from their absolute fact nothing exists, or should exist. They do not recognize, acknowledge or accept the relativity or proportionality of the existents on earth. Their claim that people must not rule or govern; or it is Allah who must govern is driven from their interpretation of a Koranic verse “It is for none but Allah is the governance.” So, Allah is the gubernatorial ruler of their Islamic state. They do not tell how Allah can rule or govern a state; however, they can tell you that Allah rules and governs through a Muslim Caliph. Some of the Islamists, especially the Muslim Brotherhood know well when to stoop to conquer in marauding their preys and plunders. And once they fall on the pillage they show off their sharp paws, piercing teeth, tearing beaks and strong jaws. This belligerent stance represents the rock on which all waves of aspiration for secularistic modernity which implicates, imbricates and overlaps justice, freedom, liberalism, equality, indiscrimination, impartiality, citizenship and progress are smashed.

Whether the problem is that of religion itself or that of clergymen who ravage the right of interpreting and explaining religious texts and who believe that they are the only possessors of the absolute fact, the large majority of Middle-eastern people in general and Egyptians in particular have relegated the way of their thinking about religious, or even about scientific matters to their clergymen who are adept in dissimulation and apt to manipulate others’ minds by infusing religion in every day practices and in every aspect of their thinking. Thus their adage, aphorism or slogan is that everything, including people, is for religion, which in fact is for their interest; not religion for people. Anyone who thinks other than what the Islamists want people to believe or think is accused of apostasy, tergiversation, and infidelity to religion; and hence to Allah. Thus, religion and Allah, though both are different, have become the anvil on which the clergymen try to hammer, subdue and subject not only the naïve folk but also scholars, pundits and pedants to their obedience and conformity.

Thus, despite the progress and development in all fields of knowledge, information and means of communication, the focus of using one’s mind/brain properly as an organ of critical thinking in enlightened, sophisticated, and creative ways appears to have taken quite a defeat and a downfall. An example that shows the beat given to the Egyptian mind is the attitudes of different people and different political spectra towards the second article of the Egyptian Constitution which states that “the Islamic law is the main source of legislation”. Most secularists and almost all Copts do not want this article, and abashedly declared that. However, when Islamists raised the article to the rank of some untouchable sacred texts and declared it an above-constitution article, everyone, including secularists, (except Dr. Sayed Elkemny), and Coptic pundits rushed to declare their agreement on and approval of the second article which is in fact a destructive contradiction to all the constitutional articles which state equality, justice, citizenship …… etc. This is another nail hammered in the human rights coffin that is soon carried on its way to graveyard to be buried in Egypt.

One of the curious side effects of the January 25th Egyptian up-rise is that it has manifested and stirred up to the surface the orientation of people to passive experience much more than their orientation to active experience; in the sense that most Egyptians tend more to discuss settled celestial matters, “religions”, opinions and suggestions of the past than to discuss future innovative maps, creative suggestions and untraditional projects of possible solutions to their live problems: insecurity, social threats, abduction, pauperism, asperity, destitution, economy, education, sciences, injustice, agriculture, arid land, heath, desertification, desert reclamation, water scarcity, industry, imports, exports, pollution, bankruptcy, health problems, and/or expected famines. These are tangible problems that require immediate solutions, solution projects, or at least an open discussion to reach or agree on tangible solutions to the many Egyptian problems.

However, Clergymen have deluged people in the animosity of everything different from theirs; they have inflamed people’s hatred and grudge towards Israel and the peace treaty, secularists, Copts, liberalists, socialists, communists, capitalists, critics, and even to artists. For the religious parties (twenty Islamist parties) and clergymen nothing can be achieved without applying the Islamic Law (Shariaa) which has become the only demand of most of the parties as a sort of flattering and kowtowing the Islamist powers and clergymen, or a sort of coquetting and flirting with the folk to win their votes. The evidence that shows the pharisaism, casuistry, sanctimoniousness of unreligious parties especially the secularistic ones is that they all agree on keeping untouched the constitutional 2nd article which states that “The Islamic Law (Sharia) is the main source of legislation”.

The Islamic powers do not want any opposition. No one can stand (morally or physically) safe in front of Islamist powers and their clergymen. They deface, mutilate, tarnish and demolish anything and anyone that has a different stance from theirs. A mere showing a cartoon with a beard and a headbag (veil/mantilla) on your internet page may lead to your destruction as being accused of religion disdain and disrespect of Islam symbols. Many Coptic candidates and Coptic politicians, a lot of secularists and liberalists are keen to declare that they do not object to the application of the Islamic law (sharia). This has led a lot of mass media liberal persons, liberal politicians, liberal critics and secularists to either retrogression into shadows, or trying to smoothly and fittingly “religionize/Islamize” their points of view to avoid antagonism or animosity of Muslim clergymen, Muslim Brotherhood, Muslim fundamentalists and Muslim groups. In all their unctuous, obsequious and glib talk shows on different TV channels they do not play politics, but religion where they smoothly drag their political oppositionists to their traps and deadfalls because a politician can not play religion with them. This shows to what extent clergymen represent the role of the hammer in this scenario, and how they use religion as an anvil to reform the Egyptian society, politics and statesmanship the way that guarantees their supremacy and domination on the spoils. The aim now, instead of creating a state or a country that is able to protect its citizens and legal inhabitants, has become one that should protect a certain religion represented in its clergymen whose narcissisms and egotisms have inflated with such arrogance, haughtiness and snobbishness that they sometimes replace the law itself. Whenever political or sectarian disputes and clashes erupt, you can be stunned and disappointed at the abashing reactions of both the government and the Military Supreme Council to the situation. Instead of solving the problem by the force of the law, they delegate or subrogate the most fanatic Muslim clergymen to interfere with the disputing parties of whom they are the provocative abettor, instigator and stirrer one, to settle the disputes. By so-doing the Military Supreme Council gives the Islamists and the ordinary people the impression that Islamist clergymen are stronger and more potent and robust than the government itself.

The Egyptian Military Supreme Council which actually has been holding all the powers (executive, judicial, legislative) since it was given the authority by the ousted president on February 11th 2011 seems to have been deliberately and premeditatedly taking too vague situations which yet distance it from political neutrality. In all its actions and reactions the Egyptian Military Supreme Council seems to pi, muddle and bungle on its decisions. It is only decisive and firm in issues that advocate Islamists. From the very beginning of taking over the authority on February 11th 2011, and in a trial to polarize the most powerful organized group on the scene, the Military Supreme Council has been favoring, eulogizing and lauding the Muslim Brotherhood to the extent of indulgence and favoritism that two of the five members of the constitution amendments committee formed by the Military Supreme Council were from the Islamists (Muslim Brotherhood).

The Military Supreme Council which seems to have not scrutinized or learned from the Muslim Brotherhood’s history thought that it could win the support of the Muslim Brotherhood altogether in return for politically releasing their hands in the country. Thus both of them have been living a playful honeymoon during which all the Muslim Brotherhood’s actions and reactions were approved of by the Military Supreme Council; and all unlawfully apartheid and discriminating actions and reactions of the Military Supreme Council against Copts and liberalists were justified and vindicated by not only the doers themselves but also by the Islamists in general and by the Muslim Brotherhood in particular. However, neither the Military Supreme Council nor the Muslim Brotherhood unquestionably trusts or confides in one another even though both avoid open clashes; the thing that made the Military Supreme Council allow other Islamist fundamentalists parties and Islamist groups to have their own strong presences on the stage to deter and dissuade the Muslim Brotherhood.

Because the Muslim Brotherhood is politically more organized, methodized and experienced, they are more astute than the Fundamentalist Islamists (Salafis) and the Other Muslim Groups; and they know how to exploit the latter two to traduce other political powers. Although all the political Islamists, whether they are Muslim Brotherhood, Fundamentalists (Salafis) or Islamic Groups, agree on Egypt being an Islamic State, they may be different in the kind of Islam they want to apply; and in the acceleration rate at which each party wants to reach its destination. Both Fundamentalists and Islamic Groups are incautious and reckless; so they are clearer and opener in their grotesqueness. There are many ideological precepts and principles that the Muslim Brotherhood seems to have abandoned to beautify or to make up their presence on the political stage. For example, they have temporarily moderated their oppositions against the Copts (Christians) as equal citizens and/or their oppositions against women’s participations in political life that they have appointed a Copt as the deputy of their party’s head, and their candidate lists includes some Copts and some women. This camouflage helps them to appear as moderate and more bearable politicians; thus deceiving and trapping even the most democratic western countries on one side, and winning more supportive and sympathetic background in the Egyptian society on the other side. When fundamentalist Islamists commit crimes against Christians, against old Egyptian monuments or even against Islamic Sunni shrines, Muslim Brotherhood never condemns or even disapproves of these extremist Salafi criminal deeds; yet the Muslim Brotherhood declares that it accept the Copts, the Pharaonic monuments and mausoleums/shrines. Thus the Muslim Brotherhood seems to be more tolerant as long as they have what they want done by the salfiis “fundamentalists and extremists”.

Amidst all this mire the poor majority of Copts are always the scapegoats that are victimized by the military Supreme Council, by the Muslim Brotherhood, by the Muslim fundamentalists/Salafiis and by the Muslim groups. It is enough to say that only since the beginning of this year 2011; other than sectarian attacks by fundamentalists/Salafiis, Copts have been exposed to three massacres/slaughters committed by the Egyptian officials, (http://www.ahewar.org/debat/show.art.asp?aid=279821): one by the interior minister of the ousted regime, and two by the military Supreme Council and security police. None of the Islamists, the fundamentalists/Salafiis or Islamic Groups has condemned these behaviors of the Egyptian officials; nor have any of them shown any sympathy towards the persecuted Copts. On the contrary, they all condemned the victimized Copts and supported and upheld the military Supreme Council, and what makes matter worst is that the Islamists shared in the attacks on Copts. The worst attack on Copts by the military Supreme Council, by the security police, by the military police, by the Islamists and by the thugs/mobs was on October 9th 2011. Although the crimes were reprobated by some liberalists and secularists, the official investigations vindicated the military Supreme Council and blamed the events on the Copts, unknown thugs, mobs and remnants of the ousted regime.

The unknown thugs, mobs and the ousted regime remnants are vigilantly present on the Egyptian scene. Their presence is falsely augmented by the government, by the official mass media, and by the military Supreme Council. In fact they are used to horrify and scare people in general and the real revolutionaries in particular. Any attacks or aggressions on civilian citizen, any sabotages, plunders, robberies, rapes, molesting, abductions, and kidnappings are always attributed to the thugs and mobs. Any anti-revolution protests are blamed on remnants Mubark’s regime; not on the shortcomings, faults, complacency and leniency of the security forces and of the military police. Most of the crimes are committed and the doer is unknown. On the contrary, peaceful protesters, peaceful demonstrators, journalists, internet bloggers, TV correspondents, or TV reporters, critics and thinkers are arrested and referred to military courts. If liberalists, secularists or Copts try to express their demands which are justice, equality, freedom, citizenship and security they are beaten, abraded, excoriated, run over and slaughtered by the military police, security police, thugs, mobs, fundamentalists/Salafiis, and by other Islamists. Neither the security police nor the military police have arrested any thugs, mobs or Mubark’s regime remnants up till now; and I think they will not.
Yet, when Muslim Brotherhood, or fundamentalists/Salafiis and Muslim Groups set on their demonstrations, they are protected by the security police and by military police. No thugs, no mobs and no ousted regime’s remnants are heard of. When Muslim Brotherhood, fundamentalists/Salafiis, and Muslim groups even bitterly criticize, reprimand or even censure the military Supreme Council and the government, their criticisms are accepted and taken as advice; and their reprimand and censure are overlooked and excused. Since the onset of protests and up-rise of January 25th no member of Muslim Brotherhood, no individual of the Islamist fundamentalists/Salafiis, no member of Muslim Brotherhood is arrested despite their violation of laws. On the contrary, all fundamentalist criminal prisoners were released from prisons; and many Islamist terrorists were allowed to return to Egypt from abroad. Many of them were given heroic reception; and became prominent guests of mass media programs.

In conclusion, the scene in Egypt is so warning and so scary. You can only hear the noise of the hammers of the Islamists and the military Supreme Council hard hitting, severely abrading and coldly killing the revolutionary liberal youth, Copts and secularists on the anvil of religion “Islam”. Once the Islamists have the majority in the legislative parliament (People’s Assembly) in 2011 elections, they will have the power and the hammer that will not exclude anyone even the military Supreme Council. Yet, fire would eat itself up if it did not find anything to eat; and finally terrorism takes away the lives of its possessors.

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