Academy & disputed figure
n the front page of a local newspaper last Thursday, a piece of news, was perhaps the type of “feeling the pulse,” on the intent to establish a special academy to qualify the sons of the ruling family to assume leadership positions in the state and the private sector, or simply to raise their personal capabilities.
It also stated that the establishment of the academy would be within international specifications, and would depend on selffinancing, and not at the cost of public money. The most exciting thing in the news is the biography of the person who will take over the administration of the academy, and this is the most important and dangerous part of the news, as it became clear from the name that there was a wide debate about the behavior, tweets, modest biography, and explicit affiliation to the Muslim Brotherhood movement, as a fundamentalist religious movement.
Over the course of a hundred years, this movement has failed to produce a single prominent leader in the countries that it had the opportunity to control.
Leadership is the art of managing others, with a wide knowledge of how to use them and benefit from their opinions, and achieve the goals of the state or institution, and all of these are talents before they are rigid scientific rules that cannot be learned.
None of the world leaders who have achieved political and economic miracles, unified their countries and gout out calamities in record times, locally, regionally or globally, were graduates of leadership education institutes, and their teachers were certainly not affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood movement.
Leadership is a characteristic that grows within a person through role models, a sound social environment, and knowledge of political and legal matters. We did not have in the past, and we will not need such an academy in the future since what we most is a modern educational system away from the negative influences of religious political parties.
Such an educational system will automatically provide society with tens or hundreds of leaders in various fields who can be used, after selecting the best of them to assume various important positions and jobs, and this is what happens with distinguished graduates in international universities who are employed in companies and democratic parties in their countries.
Our educational system was controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood, and what we see of its outputs, is the best evidence of their bad history, so how do we come and propose the establishment of an academy for leaders and hand over its management to them?
As for the statement that the academy will be self-financed, it reminded me of the decision that wreaked havoc on us and caused loss of billions of dinars, when Muhammad al-Busairi, the former oil minister and the Brotherhood’s representative in the ministry, raised the salaries of the oil sector to unprecedented levels, and justified his sabotaged behavior at that time by saying that the increases would not cost the public money anything, but rather they were from the balances of the Petroleum Corporation. As a result of his improvised and un-calculated decision, we see the current serious deficit in the state’s balance of payments.
I honestly believe that the idea failed from the beginning. Our daily mixing, our education, and the bonds of love and intermarriage between everyone for centuries were the foundation upon which the articles of the State constitution were built, which governs our relationship with the consent of all its parties.