Hasan El-Shenawy wrote: It is with great dismay that I read the kind of rhetoric that is being propagated by Western media over the events in Egypt. All what I hear is military coup this, democratically elected president that. Things may seem as such at face value but the truth is a different thing. In the first round of the Egyptian presidential elections, Morsi got about 5 million votes. In the second round, millions of Egyptians found themselves between a rock and a hard place: electing Shafiq, one of the key figures in Mubarak’s regime or Morsi, a leader in the Muslim Brotherhood. In addition to those who had originally voted for Morsi, seven million people had no other alternative but to vote for him in order to avoid bringing back the old regime. Nevertheless, people had high hopes that a man who was presented as a pious Muslim, A NASA scientist, a man with a project, would fulfil their dreams of freedom, social justice and dignity. Alas, it became clear very soon that Morsi was only interested in his “people”, the Brotherhood. To name but a few examples in no particular order: he released convicted terrorists from prisons and put revolutionaries in their place. He embraced Hamas and jihadist groups. He issued a tyrannical constitutional declaration making him Egypt’s new Pharaoh. He let Egypt’s post revolution constitution be written by his trusted bunch, excluding Christians and other groups making up the Egyptian society. He favoured members of the Brotherhood with positions and perks. He appointed his relative by marriage, Hesham Kandil, as the Prime Minister in whose term, everything in Egypt hit rock bottom: the economy, security, water and electricity supply. The cherry on the cake was his pathetic foreign policy with the Nile water source countries that culminated in Ehtiopia embarking on the Nile dam project that will entail diverting the flow of the river, the source of life for Egyptians. After a year in power, Morsi failed spectacularly to achieve any of his promises. The only things he excelled at were lying and dividing the Egyptian people. Being democratically elected, he felt secure in his position as a president, surrounded by his Brotherhood. As to the Egyptian people, he unleashed extremist clergy with poisonous rhetoric to bark at the people that Morsi is a God-sent prophet and opposing him makes one an infidel! A group of young people came up with a brilliant idea: the votes of 12 million people brought Morsi to power so the signatures of 15 million people should be enough to topple him. So was the Tamarod “Rebel” movement born. They collected signatures and ID numbers of over 22 million Egyptians; a number that clearly reflects the dissatisfaction of the people with Morsi’s performance. The idea was to call for early presidential elections. However, Morsi’s stubbornness could only be compared to that of Mubarak’s. He appeared in a congregation of his people where the extremist clergy threatened the Egyptian people with bloodbaths if Morsi was ousted. To save their country from a bleak future, Egyptians decided to restitute their revolution as they are the source of any and all governmental power. They took to the streets to demand that this deluded failure of a president be deposed. Egyptians inside and outside Egypt demonstrated in what was described as the largest political event in world history. The army, sensing the critical position the country was in, complied and carried out the people’s will simply because it has the means to do so. Portraying the second wave of the Egyptian revolution as a military coup is a travesty. Intensive discussions between the army and opposition leaders, Tamarod representatives, salafists, constitutional law experts, the Pope of the Coptic Church and the Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar took place before the post Morsi road map was announced and they were all present when the announcement was broadcast. Look at the millions of Egyptians on the streets celebrating the restitution of their revolution. Do they look like they’re crushed by a military coup? Does this in any way resemble the military coups of Latin America? Should they have stood aside and watched their country split into factions? Should they have waited till the Sinai turned into Tora Bora and you couldn’t tell the streets of Cairo from the streets of civil war torn Damascus? It’s time for the West to respect the will of the Egyptian people. We are building our democracy our way!
Posted on: Fri, 05 Jul 2013 20:39:25 +0000
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