The night that justice wept

They wanted to dishonour and shame him, but God gave him dignity and honour, and instead shamed and disgraced them. They wanted to break him, but God gave him strength and power, and he broke them before the eyes and ears of the world.

People all across the world watched on various television stations as the pro-coup judge, with panic in his eyes and shuddering with fear, read out the death sentence against the first elected and legitimate President of Egypt, Dr Mohamed Morsi, along with over 100 other Muslim Brotherhood figures and leaders. The most prominent among them includes the Brotherhood’s Supreme Guide and scholar, Dr Mohammed Badie; Islamic scholar Dr Yusuf Al-Qaradawi; the Speaker of the Egyptian People’s Assembly, Dr Mohamed Saad Katatni; and dozens of members of the People’s Assembly who were elected by the great Egyptian people.

President Morsi and his companions stood in the defendant’s cage with pride and honour, holding their heads up high as they listened to the sentencing, and they laughed as justice wept. As soon as the judge finished reading out the sentences, he fled from the courtroom, through a side door that was heavily guarded. Meanwhile, those standing in the cage chanted, “Dying for the sake of God is our greatest aspiration” and “Down with the military rule”.

At that moment the world saw the clear difference between the strength of those who are right and the weakness of those who are wrong and who do evil by following in the footsteps of the devil; it was surely devilish to sit at the stand and sentence martyrs and prisoners detained in Israeli prisons to death. This scandal resonated worldwide.

However, this minor devil of a judge was only following the instructions of a major devil, who is currently governing Egypt and who wants to drag the country into a civil war in order to stay in power. Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi now has no other means to achieve this other than to drag the country into violence, just as his Syrian counterpart, the murderer Bashar Al-Assad, was unable to eradicate the opposition by any other means than to drag it into a civil war that achieves nothing except keeping him in power. Assad now has authority over the corpses and ruins of his people and a country that was once considered a nation.

Now Egypt’s murderer wants to do the same after he lost all popular credibility and with his foreign support waning. He wants to drive the country into a cycle of violence in order to claim to the world that he is “fighting terrorism”. That is the magic word used by every fascist Arab tyrant to lure support from the international community in order to ensure that they stay in power and are able to submit their credentials to Israel.

This is why Al-Sisi is fabricating and falsifying the events in Sinai and sacrificing officers and soldiers in the Armed Forces, the police force and now even in the judiciary. After this farcical ruling, three judges were killed in Sinai while they were on their way to court. Their guards had left them halfway through the journey, and we all watched while the judges were killed; an armoured military vehicle stood idly by and did not even make an effort to arrest the murderers. This is because the killer is actually the regime itself. This is very clear to those who want to see and know the truth. However, sadly, the Egyptian people are living in a comatose state, as the media has brainwashed them completely.

The murderer at the top in Cairo wanted to take attention away from the scandalous death sentences, so he fabricated another event to distract the people from the disgraceful events in the court. He was disappointed by the world’s condemnation of the sentences.

It is also significant that these death sentences were issued on the anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba. Why did Al-Sisi choose this date in particular? By doing so he presented a gift to the Zionist state, which has said that the Egyptian president has given them what no other Egyptian leader has given them before. Israel insisted that Morsi’s continued governance of Egypt was more dangerous to its existence than Iran’s possession of a nuclear bomb. Al-Sisi also wanted to convict and demonise the Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, by involving it in this farcical case, even though it has had nothing to do with it, nor ever stood to gain anything from it.

Finally, the death sentence against the elected legitimate Egyptian President Dr Mohamed Morsi is a death sentence for the 25th January Revolution. It is the execution of a revolution for the sake of which the people sacrificed all that is near and dear to them in order to gain freedom and dignity. It is a death sentence against the will the people and the dream of a nation. Justice had every reason to weep.

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