By: Kayhan Int’l Staff Writer
     
The sudden death in the dock during a court hearing in Cairo on June 17 of Egypt’s only democratically elected ‘former’ president, Mohammed Morsi, is being described as premeditated murder at the hands of the military dictatorship that rules the country in civilian clothes.
The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s prime religious-political party of which Morsi was a member, is calling him a martyr, and so is Turkey’s president, Rajab Tayyeb Erdoghan, who like the Emir of Qatar, considers the current regime as illegal and unrepresentative.
Morsi’s son, Abdullah, has named a number of regime officials whom he has called "partners” of President General Abdel-Fattah as-Sisi in killing his father. He has particularly accused incumbent and former interior ministers Mahmoud Tawfiq and Majdy Abdel Ghaffar, respectively, as well as a number of judges, and Abbas Kamel, the head of the intelligence service, as the main culprits, whose charges against the deceased, as testified by human rights organisations, were politically motivated.
Though Morsi ruled for only one year (30th June 2012 to 3rd July 2013), he was seen by most of the Egyptians and the Muslim Ummah worldwide as a symbol of necessary religious and democratic reforms in the Arab World’s most populated and most prominent country with a historically rich Islamic culture and a civilization dating back thousands of years.
As a matter of fact, Egypt’s return to the Islamic fold after the fall of the dictator Hosni Mubarak as a result of the Islamic uprising that swept North Africa, if it rekindled hopes amongst Egyptian and world Muslims for end of US-Zionist hegemony, it alarmed not only these two sworn archenemies of Islam, but also the reactionary unrepresentative Arab regimes, especially Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
The prospects of the rapid spread of the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood throughout the Arab world, disturbed the sleep of the ruling tribal clans of these British-created fiefdoms, and in classic Bedouin fashion they resorted to deceit, flattery, hypocrisy, and treachery, to first pretend friendship with President Morsi, and then stab him in the back through their hirelings in the Egyptian armed forces. Recently, Riyadh and Abu Dhabi repeated this same plot in Khartoum to oust President Hassan al-Bashir.
Of course, the Late Morsi made some fatal mistakes that eventually brought about his downfall. For example, he placed undue trust in the heretical an-Noor party that was a Trojan horse for the Wahhabi cultish regime of Riyadh, to the extent that he severed ties with the legitimate government of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria by declaring support for the Godless Takfiri terrorists, and even permitting Egyptian volunteers to fight in Syria.
He threw cold water on the aspirations of over three million Egyptian Shi’a Muslims for national recognition of their birthrights in the land which for almost three centuries was the centre of the Fatemid Shi’a Muslim Dynasty whose glories in the field of art, architecture, and Arabic literature, flourish till this day.
He not only did not close down the Israel embassy and expel all Zionist diplomats from Egypt, but blundered in assuring Tel Aviv of Cairo’s cooperation.
He believed the false promises of American and European officials who made a beeline to visit Cairo, while secretly plotting with Israel and Saudi Arabia for his ouster.
He ignored the friendly advice of the Islamic Republic of Iran for immediate steps in molding committed Egyptian Muslims into a formidable popular force on the model of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps and the Basij, as had been successfully demonstrated in Lebanon by the legendry anti-terrorist movement, Hezbollah.
Morsi’s major folly was to promote as chief of the armed forces and defence minister, without proper scrutiny, a junior officer, named Abdel-Fattah as-Sisi over the heads of the senior generals of the Mobarak regime, in the wrong hope that this unknown person would serve the cause of Islam and Egypt.
If he had studied history, especially of Pakistan, which he visited and held crucial talks on defence cooperation, on how Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was overthrown in the mid-1970s and subsequently executed by a kangaroo court on trumped up charges by the ingrate called Zia ul-Haq whom he promoted over the heads of the military top brass, perhaps he might have avoided a similar fate.
At any rate, the death of Morsi, doesn’t mean the demise of the Muslim Brotherhood, which though banned, has the potential to regroup, rebuild, and rejuvenate the Egyptian people with Islamic and democratic values for establishing the cherished popular system of government based on people’s vote, with iron-like determination to throw off the yoke of Western Imperialism, Zionism, and Takfirism (Salafism).