The Black Comedy

Egypt continues to witness a black comedy since the bloody coup that drove the country into a dark tunnel threatening the future of Egypt. After the army presented us with its meatball invention that treats every disease and the magic substance that immediately paves roads while the cars drive along, they have chosen the dancer Fifi Abdou as this year’s “Mother of the Year”. This coup has reversed every standard in Egypt and mixed everything up, making falsehood prevalent in the country in order to take control of the reins in Egypt, but falsehood will never prevail, no matter how long this brutal coup lasts.

I have said since the beginning, and I continue to reiterate that this coup came about in order to execute a specific agenda supported by the West and the Zionists mainly focusing on changing the Egyptian identity and steering clear of all that is Islamic, as well as erasing the values of our community which stem from our religion. This is the plan being carried out by the coup-organisers, as they included all of the mosques under the Awqaf Ministry and shut some of them down in order to control these mosques and unify the Friday sermon given in all the mosques.

They even upload it onto the internet on Thursday night so no preachers deviate from the set sermon and come up with their own. If they do so, they are reported, as the mosques are full of state security spies and volunteers from the honest citizens who are cooperating with state security. They are protecting their religion, the religion of Islam, the religion of truth, pride and honour, not the religion of shame, humiliation, and oppression, a lie they are trying to promote and spread among the Muslims in order to put them in their coma and delusions of their famous meatballs.

The situation in Egypt is more woeful than comical. Recently, a ruling was issued against a citizen named Dr Gamal Mady sentencing him to three years in prison and a fine of 50,000 Egyptian pounds, even though he died a year ago. Even after such an act, they remain proud and blatantly claim that Egypt’s judiciary is great, magnificent, fair, etc. Another citizen named Mahmoud Shoukry had his home raided and stormed by dozens of officers, the street was blocked with armoured vehicles and tanks before they realising the man they came to arrest had been dead for four years.

Do you see how scandalous the situation in Egypt has become? If this scandal indicates anything, it indicates the great fear and unrest amongst the coup-leaders, making them afraid of the dead, maybe because they fear they might form a movement called “The dead against the coup”. Therefore, they decided to pursue and persecute them, just like they do with other movements in Egypt, such as the students against coup, journalists against the coup, women against the coup, etc.

There is no doubt that the coup-organisers are going through a real and natural crisis, as they are living in fear and terror of the nightmare of revenge which haunts them even in their dreams. This is because God puts fear in their hearts while he puts patience and tranquillity in the hearts of the oppressed who ask God for martyrdom. Unlike the coup-leaders who fear martyrdom and hope to live forever so they do not experience the painful punishment that awaits them for the atrocities, murders and sins they have committed in this mortal life. (And never think that Allah is unaware of what the wrongdoers do. He only delays them for a day when eyes will stare [in horror]) (Yousef: 42).

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