US Cannot Keep MB in Power
US Cannot Keep MB in Power
US Cannot Keep MB in Power
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Created on Tuesday, 20 August 2013 10:52
Written by DR. Ashraf Ramelah - Voice of the Copts
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The military of Egypt is respecting the universal rights of all Egyptians by rooting out
Muslim Brotherhood terrorism, the backers of Morsis regime finding smuggled
weapon stashes and arresting Morsis guest militias (Hamas and Al Qaida terrorists).
After more than two years of protests to brin3dg about the removal of two
dictatorships, the latter installed through fraudulent elections billed as free and fair,
Egyptian freedom-fighters backed by the army must not retreat from their chance now
to expose and expunge radical terrorists who came dangerously close to dominating
Egypt for the long term. This means countering the efforts of the Obama administration
inside Egypt.
Everything hinges upon the unthwarted dedication of the Egyptian army to continue
with actions loyal to Egyptian pro-democracy freedom-fighters. So far it has done so by
not heeding the call for restraint coming from the U.S. White House and Department
of State in wrestling with an entrenched terror group fallen from legitimacy. Implying
that Egypts military is sparking violence rather than dispelling it, an August 14 White
House Statement by the Press Secretary on Egypt advises, Violence will only make it
more difficult to move Egypt forward on a path to lasting stability and democracy, and
runs counter to the pledges by the interim government to pursue reconciliation. But
has the secular, civil, pro-democracy majority movement represented by the interim
government ever promised to reconcile with terrorists?
Secretary of State John Kerry mentions inclusion or inclusive five times in his
August 14 State Department press briefing on Egypt. He is referring to Muslim
Brotherhood and Salafis he knows to be the only parties left out from Egypts interim
government seeking stability and to build democracy. Last year, America restrained
from pertinent challenges to Morsis unmet commitments and executive overreaches -interferences that would have favored Egypts real democracy movement. All of this
makes the Obama administration seem nothing more than promoters of the ousted
regime and their protesters who gathered armed forces in the streets of Al Adawyia,
Cairo and other cities across Egypt.
Fittingly, White House disapproval comes now and blames Egypts military for defending
the country against the aggression of Morsi defenders and Brotherhood thugs, advising
reconciliation which will place Egypts democratic future at risk. Ignoring these urgings,
the interim government is speaking of combating religious fascists and dissolving the
Muslim Brotherhood as a way of ensuring that democratic values prevail.
U.S. Senator John McCain, Americas best and brightest, labels Egypts problem a
military coup in reality, this coup is nonexistent. In cautioning John Kerry against
leniency toward Egypts military, John McCain says, to think theyre [the military
coup government of Egypt] going to eliminate the Muslim Brotherhood flies in the face
of the history of the Muslim Brotherhood who will be able to survive, perhaps,
underground, despite the efforts of the generals to eliminate them (Newsmax,
8/15/13). In an open letter to Obama (Newsmax 8/16/13), Free Egyptians reject the
arrogance, pessimism and opposition coming from the U.S. in answer to their struggle
for freedom in the face of terrorism. Paradoxically, the greatest democracy on earth
offers the greatest resistance to Egypts democratic goals.
Stressing strong opposition to Egypts return to a State of Emergency law, the Office
of the Press Secretary speaks solely for Egypts Muslim Brotherhood -- the only body
that could possibly benefit from the absence of marshal law as it ravages the country
and in doing so aligns America with jihadists appearing on the U.S. State Departments
list of more than 50 Foreign Terrorist Organizations. Meanwhile law and order is kept by
military and police curfews, saving lives and securing the nation against this deadly
Brotherhood backlash.
Referring to the Al Adawyia event, the White House said, The world is watching what is
happening in Cairo. Unlike Morsis tight control on Egypts media and the tendency to
shut out foreign press, the military invited both foreign and Egyptian media to freely
witness their handling of Al Adawyia protesters. Patient for weeks (40 days) and under
pressure from citizens to remove terrorists from sit-ins blocking their doorways, the
army finally arrived to find that the Muslim Brotherhood had been receiving deliveries of
suspicious cargo, setting up arbitrary check points to intimidate residents, and receiving
mysterious visitors from limousines with diplomatic plates. The military gave notice for
protesters to remove themselves from the scene peacefully without fear of harm and
gave fair warning that those remaining would be removed by force.
The White House rightfully condemns violence in Egypt and extends condolences to
family members of those killed and to the injured from the Al-Adawyia Muslim
Brotherhood stage. But it does so at the expense of appearing neglectful and
unsympathetic toward the hundreds of murderous attacks on Egypts Christians who for
the past six years have sought the support and help of a freedom-loving America and
still wait. Now suffering more so at the brunt of Brotherhood Muslim madness and
unleashed hatred, Christians have so far lost 83 Coptic churches looted and burned by
the Muslim Brotherhood, along with Christian schools, shops and businesses.
Al Adawyia of August 14th encapsulates Egypts post-Morsi civil strife. All along, the
Egyptian military welcomed peaceful Morsi protesters -- encouraging calm with hope to
avoid bloodshed from a violent, vengeful group very different from the unarmed and
nonviolent Tamarud movement protests. Warnings over loud speakers were issued, and
many Al Adawyia protesters dispersed, but others (thousands) turned against police
and military with Molotov cocktails and machine gun fire killing many (50) police
officers and military personnel.
After the Brotherhood-occupied area was cleared, police and military entered the
vacated Al Adawyia mosque (which had come under siege and become Brotherhood
headquarters) and discovered the macabre -- the unthinkable. A mass grave dug into
the floor was piled with 30 bodies which forensics later confirmed to be tortured
residents set on fire. The mosque was stockpiled with Brotherhood weaponry
confiscated by the military.
Mindful of reports that the Muslim Brotherhood intend to create a shadow government
and establish its own military like Hamas in Gaza, the army intervened to make certain
Al Adawyia could never be the incubator for a state within a state. With good reason to
fear an aided and emboldened Muslim Brotherhood, the Egyptian army took action it
knew was widely endorsed by Egyptians who have come to expect an army responsible
to the pro-freedom majority and its interim government in performing their duty to the
country.
Today, amateur videos show Muslim Brotherhood killing other Brotherhood protesters
before and during the August 14th attack on military in Al Adawyia and other locations
in Egypt. Egyptian hospitals number the days dead at just over five hundred-- whereas
the Muslim Brotherhood reported three thousand losses to Al Jazeera. Muslim
Brotherhood propaganda goes far beyond skewing numbers to staging photographs for
Al Jazeera with dramatizations of fake injuries made to implicate Egypts military and
disseminate it across the world. For the U.S., insisting that Egypts answer for
democracy includes the fraudulent, unscrupulous and untrustworthy Muslim
Brotherhood makes the Obama administration look likewise -- fraudulent, unscrupulous
and untrustworthy -- to the smart, genuine and brave freedom fighters of Egypt.