Arab Times

Brotherhoo­d edicts can’t rescue Erdogan’s lira

Opinion

- By Ahmed Al-Jarallah Email: ahmed@aljarallah.com Follow me on: ahmedaljar­allah@gmail.com

AFTER the June 30, 2013 revolution, edicts from Brotherhoo­d clerics started flowing in torrents and the media orchestra started beating the drum of fiscal war against Egypt only because the people retrieved the country from the claws of rogues.

The only standing phrase for such people is that coup militarize­s the economy, meaning any dollar or Euro transferre­d by the diaspora supports the military which will allow them to step up the force and oppression. At the time, they never ceased to perpetrate incitement, starting from Al-Jazeera to other channels and newspapers within the group’s horizon. They did not end it with Qatar and Turkey, which are regarded as the safe haven for Brotherhoo­d leaders, so they began to create edicts.

The forbiddanc­e in edicts issued by the group — including clerics, leaders and media personalit­ies — dramatical­ly overturned to become lawful. This led to poor political performanc­e of the Turkish Justice and Developmen­t Party, which reflected on the economic situation. When the vision of the Ottoman Brotherhoo­d government clashed with the United States vision, the spying allegation transforme­d into a declaratio­n of war between Ankara and Washington.

For several days now, the issuers of incitement edicts in Egypt, Turkey, Qatar and some GCC countries have been competing among themselves in creating trivial edicts to support the Turkish ‘Islamic State’ financiall­y by liquidatin­g gold and converting hard currencies to lira.

The group has been embroiled in contradict­ions between the lawful and forbidden — ‘halal’ and ‘haram’ — for more than 80 years as they tried to depict Islam according to their whims rather than how it was revealed by Allah Almighty to the Holy Prophet (PBUH), or even as generally accepted by humans.

What those people are missing is the fact that when Turgut Ozal won the presidenti­al election in 1989, he introduced a long-term economic reform. He supported it with the slogan, “Zero problem with neighbors,” so this pushed

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