Two faces of same coin

Other Voices

IBy Ahmad Al-Sarraf

n 1866, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) movement was founded in the United States of America. It was a racist movement that advocated white supremacy. It was antiSemite, anti-Catholicism and anti-homosexuality. It did not hesitate to kill and burn its enemies on crosses.

The government succeeded in eliminating it in 1871, but it reappeared in 1915, after which it became an official organization. In the 1920s, the number of members of KKK was about 15 percent of the population. However, due to the wave of recession, the effects of World War II and the scandals of its leaders related to their hatred of women, their support for the Nazis, and their utter lack of faith in human rights of the human race, everyone began hating this organization, which eventually became totally marginalized.

Saudi colleague Meshari Al-Zaidi says, “One of the most striking aspects that should be considered when discussing with a person who defends the Muslim Brotherhood Group is his/her terrible ignorance of the history, personalities and events related to this group.

It is assumed that those who defend should know the truth about whom they are defending.

It so happened that I met one of these defenders of the Muslim Brotherhood Group. He categorically denied that the group had any criminal or terrorist history, insisting that such a thing is a slander. I asked him, “What about the murders of Judge Ahmad Al-Khazandar, prime ministers Ahmed Maher and Mahmoud Al-Nukrashi and the Chief of Cairo Police Salim Zaki, as well as the bombing of movie theaters and the burning of the properties of Groppi and Chekorel owned by non-Muslims to mention just a few?.

He denied all this but I went on to say that those who follow the story of the “Special Squad”, which specialized in assassinations and manufacturing explosives, will discover that the Muslim Brotherhood Group was the first to invent the explosive belt. This was one of the means used to kill Jamal Abdul Nasser in the famous Manshiyya operation in 1954. I also asked, “What about Sayed Qutb’s supervision of the most dangerous military terrorist organization to reach the power?”

That is not the only problem, but also the way the group reaches power by blowing

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up power stations and target Al-Qanatir al-Khairiya and its dams, which control the flow of Nile water in Egypt’s densely populated delta region. This means mass killing of ordinary Egyptian citizens. All these were mentioned by Ali Ashmawi, a member of the “65” organization, in his book about the crimes of this organization.

It is certain that my friend, who is zealous when it comes to defending the Muslim Brotherhood Group, did not read this book. Perhaps he is influenced by the group’s propaganda that the statements made by Ashmawi and others about it are mere fabrications.

We have a library with many books written mostly by members of the Muslim Brotherhood Group. Those books reveal the radical ideas of the group, and gives details of its clandestine actions, murders and espionage acts.

Among those writers is Salah Shadi, one of the leaders of the Special Squad. There is also a book titled “Me and the Brotherhood, from Mansheya to the podium” written by Major General Fuad Allam, former deputy head of the State Security apparatus, and referring to the attempted assassination of Nasser in 1954 and Sadat in 1981.

From the entire history of the Muslim Brotherhood Group and their philosophy of governance, we are in the midst of a global terrorist organization that extends from United States of America, Canada, Australia and Europe to dozens of Arab and Islamic countries. It is not a traditional local party that believes in co-existence, as claimed by the Muslim Brotherhood Group.

They also believe that they are the only ones who speak in the name of Allah and that they alone have the right to interpret His words. They believe in violence as the means to achieve their goals and punish their opponents.

From this viewpoint, I would like to say to the liberal and secular brothers that I will be the first to become a member of the Muslim Brotherhood Group and consider them a political faction worthy of respect, provided they abandon the slogan of the twocrossed swords and the phrase “Prepare for them”, accept the terms of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, declare their abandonment of violence as a way to reach power, believe in giving full rights to women, and express their willingness to share the rule with others such as Muslims, Christians and Jews.

If they refuse, they and the Ku Klux Klan can be considered the same in terms of extremism and terrorism.

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