Al-Sisi sells old merchandise

The coup regime in Egypt is still promoting the same old merchandise it has been selling to the Egyptians and the world since the bloody coup began on July 3rd last year. This includes “terrorism” in order to frighten the Egyptian people and convince them that they are in danger, and only Al-Sisi and his regime can save them from the clutches of evil. It is ironic that this regime asked the people for a mandate in order to fight potential terrorism, when in reality it was his recognition and an explicit admission that terrorism in Egypt only exists in the mind of the coup leader. Al-Sisi will use it as a justification for the coup and promote it at home and abroad, and will convince the outside world, especially the United States and the European Union, that they all share a common enemy and that they must help and support him in combatting it; he, and he alone, is their man in the Middle East.

Such merchandise is old in the West and is now considered obsolete; “terrorism” no longer satisfies or tempts Western governments because they produced it in their intelligence agencies. It is like the Egyptian proverb says, “He’s going to sell water at the watering hole.” This game will not work on them, but they only blessed Al-Sisi because he overthrew the Islamic government in Egypt, represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, and they hate Islam and fight against it as their greatest enemy. After the fall of communism, former US President Ronald Reagan said, “After our victory over the red enemy, it is now the turn of the green enemy.” With a clear reference to Islam, this means that the Americans and Al-Sisi share a common foe.

This is why Al-Sisi is shutting down mosques and arresting thousands of Al-Azhar imams, students and professors who oppose and resist the coup peacefully. Many of them have been shot and killed by the police and army during protests, of course, in addition to the thousands who died during the Rabaa and Al-Nahda Squares massacres. This man is implementing a Zio-American agenda to eliminate Islam in Egypt in order to change its Islamic identity. We are now witnessing a time when those who have reminders on their cars or in their shop windows asking “Have you said your prayers today?” are being persecuted. These posters frighten the coup leaders and drive them into a state of hysteria and panic so that they order their soldiers to tear them down and prosecute the owners; unbelievable!

Al-Sisi went on his first official overseas visit to Algeria last week, and then Equatorial Guinea to attend the annual African Union meeting in order to promote his old merchandise and warn the rest of the continent against the terrorism that will make its way and spread to their countries. However, the Algerians, who lived under the painful effects of terrorism for ten years, know very well how it began and ended, and there is a parallel with Egypt. Just as the Algerian generals cancelled the free and fair elections that were held in the country, which were going to be won by the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS), their Egyptians counterparts cancelled all the electoral privileges of the parliamentary and presidential elections and deposed the elected president. However, the difference between we Egyptians and the Algerian people is that their generals pushed the people to take up arms after the numerous massacres they committed and then tried to blame them on the FIS. Despite the fact that the Egyptian generals tried to reproduce the same scene and committed bloody massacres and tried to blame them on the Muslim Brotherhood, the Egyptian people refused to bear arms and insisted on peaceful resistance. Since his fascist coup, Al-Sisi has been trying to reproduce the Algerian scenario and drive the country into civil war, but the revolutionaries are completely aware of his scheme and will not give him the opportunity to do so. They remain convinced that their peaceful protests are stronger than Al-Sisi’s bullets and they will use their approach to put an end to the coup.

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