Editor’s Note: Refaat El Said, head of the leftist Al-Tagamo’ Party, recently appeared on video discussing the Muslim Brotherhood’s tactics at Islamizing the Egyptian government and indeed the whole country. Excerpts follow:
The governor of a region and members of parliament convene with the citizens and issue a verdict to evict some citizens out of the village.
It is a contravention against the Constitution, the law, and judicial rulings which have been previously issued on this matter. It happened during [former President Anwar] Sadat’s era when he ordered the eviction of the revolutionary lady Shahenda Meqled, together with fifteen other farmers out of the Kamsheesh region. He wanted to kick them out of Kamsheesh and never allow them to return back to the region. The Administrative court, then, rescinded the ruling and deemed it completely annulled.
It even contradicts the teachings of Islam: “You cannot punish someone for the wrongdoing of another”.
Someone does something wrong—why punish his father, his mother, his relatives and his neighbors? Why punish all Copts for one person’s mistake?
Now the question is: if a Muslim committed the same mistake, would they have punished him?
Therefore, we will issue a statement tomorrow condemning the whole incident and holding the Egyptian authorities to account for condoning what happened.
The Muslim Brotherhood is trying to terrorize both the Military Council and El Ganzoory’s government. They do not want the investigation into the funding of NGOs to cross the line and go as far as demanding an investigation into the funding of the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist groups, so they threaten them by waving the card of a “coalition government” insinuating that they will kick them out before they can get a chance to poke their noses into the issue of the Islamists’ funding.
The Muslim Brotherhood [MB] is trying to infiltrate all the civil society institutions. Hence, they started attacking the judiciary, claiming that they are not competent, or are hesitant, or slow. In the meantime they attack the ministry of interior affairs and say that it needs restructuring. Indeed, the ministry of interior affairs is not what the people aspire for, yet, the true intentions behind the MB attack is to give its “parliament legislative committee” an excuse to add an item to the rules and regulations it is drafting now for the judicial authority, whereby “considering the current incompetence and precarious performance of the judiciary, the MB should establish new (ad hoc common law judicial panels). Immediately afterwards they would announce that they already have 20,000 qualified persons for these panels, and thus they manage to Islamize the judicial system. We have already seen what these ad hoc common law panels’ verdicts are like and what they would eventually do to the people.
They also talk about the absence of security and the incompetence of the ministry of interior affairs. The solution they have in mind is “public committees”—or, in fact, their own “militias” to control the security institution of the country.
So now they control the legislative authority and they are trying to seize control of both the judicial and executive authorities, thus, they will have total control of the whole country.
With regards to the potential president, we intend to convene tomorrow with the Egyptian Bloc to discuss and delineate the basis for electing the next president as he should represent the will of the nationalistic, patriotic and liberal powers in Egypt who are urging and calling for a civil state.
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Source: Al Youm 7
