*The Brotherhood was started in Oklahoma USA, in 1928. America high jacked genuine Arab love of their faith and turned it into a tool to fight the Eastern bloc. *
*……….. but the party was more exercised by Egypt’s growing relationship with the atheistically Soviet Union…………….* *The Brotherhood is most misunderstood — deliberately misunderstood — * *Far from being an Islamist party, its roots were always right-wing rather than religious, its early membership under Hassan al-Banna prepared to tolerate King Farouk and his Egyptian landlords providing they lived behind an Islamic façade.* *The Brotherhood’s leadership never stood alongside the people during Egypt’s uprising. They were busy trying to negotiate with Mubarak in the hope they could find some scraps on the table for themselves. The Brotherhood’s leadership never stood alongside the people during Egypt’s uprising.* *Egypt’s uprising was led by Egypt’s strongest secular base — the trade union movement, especially the cotton workers of Mahalla north of Cairo.* *Sayyed Qutub, the Brotherhood’s leader, attacked Nasser for leading his people back into a pre-Islamic age of ignorance (‘jahiliya) but the party was more exercised by Egypt’s growing relationship with the atheistically Soviet Union.* On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 2:49 AM, Herrn Edward Mulindwa <[email protected]>wrote: > Egypt: When people turn against selves **** > > ** ** > > Friday, 05 July 2013 00:00 **** > > ** ** > > John Fiske**** > > BOTH sides may wave the Egyptian flag, which is red, white and black. The > colour of khaki is no substitute. The army’s in charge. Call it a coup, if > you like. But the Egyptian military — or the infamous “Supreme Council of > **** > > the Armed Forces” as we must again call it — is now running Egypt. By > threat at first — then with armour on the streets of Cairo. Roads blocked. > **** > > Barbed wire. Troops round the radio station. Mohamed Morsi — at the time > still the President — may have called it a ‘coup’ and claimed the old moral > high ground (‘legitimacy’, democracy’, ) but long before we saw the > soldiers in the city, he was pleading with the generals ‘to return to > barracks.**** > > Ridiculous; the generals didn’t have to leave their barracks to put the > fear of God (metaphorical or real) into his collapsing administration. > Morsi talked of shedding his blood. So did the army. This was grim stuff. > Miserable was it to behold a free people applaud a military intervention, > though Morsi’s opponents would claim their freedoms have been betrayed.*** > * > > But they are now encouraging soldiers to take the place of politicians. > Both sides may wave the Egyptian flag, which is red, white and black. The > colour of khaki is no substitute. > Nor will the Muslim Brotherhood disappear, whatever Morsi’s fate.**** > > Risible he may have been in power, lamentable his speeches, but the best > organised political party in Egypt knows how to survive in adversity. The > Brotherhood is the most misunderstood — or perhaps the most deliberately > misunderstood — institution in modern Egyptian history.**** > > Far from being an Islamist party, its roots were always right-wing rather > than religious, its early membership under Hassan al-Banna prepared to > tolerate King Farouk and his Egyptian landlords providing they lived behind > an Islamic façade.**** > > Even when the 2011 revolution was at its height and millions of > anti-Mubarak demonstrators had pushed into Tahrir Square, the Brotherhood > was busy trying to negotiate with Mubarak in the hope they could find some > scraps on the table for themselves. The Brotherhood’s leadership never > stood alongside the people during Egypt’s uprising.**** > > This role was fulfilled by Egypt’s strongest secular base — the trade > union movement, especially the cotton workers of Mahalla north of Cairo. > Even Nasser’s war with the Brotherhood was less about religion than it was > about security; the leadership of the original Free Officers Movement found > that the Brotherhood was the only party able to infiltrate the army — a > lesson which today’s Egyptian generals have taken to heart.**** > > If the Muslim Brotherhood is banned again — as it was under Nasser and > under Sadat and under Mubarak — it will not lose its support within the > armed forces. Sadat was assassinated by a non-Brotherhood Islamist called > Khaled el-Islambouli — but he also happened to be a lieutenant in the > Egyptian army.**** > > Sayyed Qutub, the Brotherhood’s leader, attacked Nasser for leading his > people back into a pre-Islamic age of ignorance (‘jahiliya) but the party > was more exercised by Egypt’s growing relationship with the atheistical > Soviet Union.**** > > Qutub was hanged. But persecuted, officially banned, the party learned — > like all underground organisations with an ideology — how to organise, > politically, socially, even militarily.**** > > The army, as they say, belongs to the people. Mohamed el-Baradei, the > former UN nuclear inspector and Nobel laureate and now opposition leader, > told me during the 2011 rising that “ultimately, the Egyptian army will be > with the people . . . And at the end of the day, after anyone takes off his > uniform, he is part of the people with the same problems, the same > repression, the same inability to have a decent life. So I don’t think they > are going to shoot their people.”**** > > But that was then, and this is now. Morsi may have adopted the > pseudo-trappings of a dictator — he certainly talked like Mubarak on > Tuesday, complete with threats against the press — but he was legally > elected, as he kept telling us, and legitimacy is what the army likes to > claim it is defending. In 2011, the ‘people’ were against Mubarak.**** > > Now, the ‘people’ are against each other. Can the Egyptian Army, the > heroes of the 1973 crossing of the Suez Canal, stand between the two when > they themselves now come — let us face it — from the ‘people’ on both > sides? — *The Independent.***** > > ** ** > > Thé Mulindwas Communication Group > "With Yoweri Museveni and Dr. Kiiza Besigye Uganda is in anarchy" > Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi > "Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni na Dk. Kiiza Besigye Uganda ni katika machafuko" > **** > > ** ** > > _______________________________________________ > Ugandanet mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/ugandanet > > UGANDANET is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > All Archives can be found at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > --------------------------------------- > >
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