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The execution of a nation

April 17, 2015 at 10:30 am

I was not surprised by the recent mass death sentences issued to the Muslim Brotherhood leaders, including the group’s Supreme Guide, Dr Mohammed Badie. This is the fourth time that he has been sentenced to death by Al-Sisi’s courts, which have also executed the judiciary, thus killing all law and order in Egypt. The rule of law has been buried in the chests of the coup’s judges, just as their souls and consciences have died and rotted in their chests.

There was no surprise or astonishment at these unjust sentences because we know that there is no genuine judiciary left in Egypt and that these rulings were actually issued by the coup leader himself, who has executed an entire nation. Individuals no longer have value, regardless of how high their status is in a country as big as Egypt.

I am no longer concerned about asking whether or not these sentences will be implemented, as they no longer concern any of us as much as we are worried about how to rescue Egypt from the grips of the deadly group that has violated the state in such a short time. This is especially true because there has been much talk lately about these sentences being a means to pressure the Brotherhood to accept reconciliation with the coup-led government; to recognise the government and give it legitimacy in exchange for the release of its leaders. They also stipulate that there will be no talk of a revolution or prisoners, which have reached over 50,000, or of the rights of the martyrs and prisoners, or anything of the sort, which means that no voice will overpower Al-Sisi and his coup-led government.

Every time the regime in Cairo is in trouble, it issues unjust rulings against the Brotherhood’s leaders and then promotes the idea of reconciliation. Its media mouthpieces start to reject the idea and make threats in an effort to distract the people with debates and controversies that have no other aim than to divert attention from their daily problems. These problems have been growing since the coup, despite the fact that the government has made countless promises to the people over the past two years. Unfortunately, they believed them and it is only now that they are realising that these promises were lies and that the dreams they had were nothing more than delusions.

The good-hearted and helpless people of Egypt have given up and given themselves to the deceitful coup media mouthpieces and have allowed themselves to be brainwashed without thinking. They should have asked — before being shocked by what Egypt has become and realising that they were tricked and believed the delusions sold to them — how can we trust the promises made by a man who broke his promise to God and betrayed his president? Would he keep any other promise he makes if he could not keep his promise to God?

Al-Sisi told the people that they will see Egypt’s future, and they are seeing it now; weak and humiliated, dependent on Saudi Arabia and the UAE, following those countries to pick up the crumbs they throw to Egypt in order to fill the coup leaders’ treasuries. This is the new Egypt he was talking about. Is this what the people wanted or aspired for their country? The coup leaders have executed this nation, which protected us all in the past, and in which we once felt safe and warm. No more.

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