Abdullah Al-Nafisi ... Thank you!
Innovative TV introducer Ammar Taqi conducted nearly thirty episodes in his ‘Black Box’ with former academician and politician Abdullah Al-Nafisi. We have previously written two articles about some of what Al-Nafisi said during the interviews most of which was exciting, but we stopped after we felt that exaggeration had crossed the limit.
On December 9, Mubarak Al-Duwailah wrote an article in which he responded to one of Ammar Taqi’s interviews with Al-Nafisi and this prompted me to go back on my decision and write this comment.
Al-Duwailah says the social media has reported some of what Dr. Abdullah Al-Nafisi said on the Black Box program, and Al-Nafisi has the experiences and the expertise and he is also good at political analysis, and is considered a thinker and a theorist when it comes to various Islamic groups despite his weak organizational commitment with some of them.
Al-Duwailah added ‘I also know him closely when we represented the Muslim Brotherhood in the National Assembly of 1985, and we participated in the group’s political committee at the time.’ The Brotherhood’s youth had previously managed his electoral campaign in Bayan and Mishref from A to Z but Al-Nafisi and others quietly left the Brotherhood due to disagreements over the investigation of a case, and he subsequently turned on the current, and wrote three articles in a daily newspaper, challenging the group and its leadership, which carried him on their shoulders to the parliament hall.
Al-Nafisi then remained silent for a long time, perhaps regretfully, before he went out and recorded several episodes of the “Black Box”, most of which were good in content and presentation according to what I had received, but they were not without criticism against the Muslim Brotherhood that was misplaced, as he mentioned that (the Brotherhood’s movement) was penetrated by the security apparatus, and that its leadership is a group of simple people who do not realize their political reality. (The first part of Al-Duwailah’s words ended.)
I would like to comment here and say: First, Mr. Al-Nafisi said a lot more than that about the group and its leadership, but Al-Duwailah chose to ignore it. What was stated by AlNafisi against the Brotherhood was truly offensive to them, as he literally said: “All Islamic parties in Kuwait are penetrated at all levels, and a large number of its members cooperate with security authorities.
Al-Nafisi added: “Likewise, the Brotherhood’s decision is in the hands of the senior people in the Shura and the Executive Office, and the leadership that we see, they are all poor people and I sympathize their situation. They are modest in culture, origin and and experience! They took the lead in seniority and were unable to absorb the reality in the world and Kuwait at all levels!
From all of this, we see that AlDuwailah abbreviated the talk of AlNafisi because of the frank and abusive words it contained against the Brotherhood. Is this abbreviation one of the characteristics of the Muslim Brotherhood?
Al-Duwailah continued his response, reminding Al-Nafisi, and boasting that the party, which he described as being run by some simple people, managed to impose itself on the political scene and that those he described as simple people have been participating in political life and have been influential for the past forty years when Al- Nafisi was absent.
First, this bragging is meaningless as long as the group is penetrated at all levels and its participation in the government for forty years was a government plan and it is the authority that allowed them to expand, control the curricula, schools and colleges, and collect money they wanted and did not stop them one day because it used them to direct its goal to its liking.
Consequently, their pride in reaching the decision center is meaningless. Their structural, intellectual and partisan weakness, which was revealed or exposed by those who were once part of them, means that they were always tools and being controlled. Without the support of the street, which the government has paved for decades, they are nothing in reality.
As for the battles in which Al-Duwailah is proud of the Brotherhood’s entry and victory, and their elimination of conspiracies, gossip and rumors, and their struggles even with some Islamic forces is also meaningless and it would not have been achieved without the full support of the authority and fulfilling their constant demands, and without that support they would have become “nothing” after liberation.