Hosni Mubarak, the Shah of Egypt, cracks down on the Muslim Brotherhood
A few days ago, Hossam posted about the arrest and imprisonment of Khaled Hamzah Salim, an Egyptian engineer and the Editor-in-Chief of IkhwanWeb.com, the English-language website of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.
Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak, for whom George Bush and Condaleeza Rice have never failed to show their great appreciation, is currently in the process of thwarting efforts by the Muslim Brotherhood (Egypt’s most cogent political social force outside of the regime apparatus) to participate in upcoming municipal elections around Egypt (which already were delayed for 2 years back in 2006 because Mubarak feared that the Muslim Brothers would sweep in the elections).
According to Hossam, Khaled Salim was one of the leading individuals encouraging younger members of the Brotherhood to take an active role through new media like blogging. Abdel Mon`im I believe was the one who broke the news of Khaled’s arrest at his blog Ana Ikhwan–some might recall that Abdel Mon`im himself was the victim of Mubarak’s repressive crackdown and was held in prison from April to June of 2007.
There is a painfully obvious pattern in Europe and America whereby Muslim and Islamist activists and dissidents in the Middle East will be ignored or neglected when they are arrested, detained, tortured, imprisoned, or murdered by the criminal Arab regimes. This neglect, which is based on a fear of Islam and of religiously-inspired political movements, is totally unfounded and is contrary to the principles which most of these same people use to justify their distrust of the Muslim groups: namely, freedom, democracy, peace, and justice. In reality, all of these are on the side of the Muslim Brotherhood detainees, journalists, bloggers, and activists who have been unjustly arrested in Egypt and elsewhere, and not of those secular-liberals or the criminal Arab regimes.
No degree of repression by Hosni Mubarak’s regime will stop the growing resistance movement in Egypt. Like the Shah of Iran, the fate of his regime has already been sealed. Future American presidents and CIA directors, blinded as they are by their commitment to non-ethical “US interests,” will look back with sorrow and longing to the “good old days” of having their friend Hosni in power; the Egyptian people, on the other hand, will likely be itching to forget him.
If you are in the US, call the Egyptian consulate in Washington DC and let them know: freedom for Khaled, freedom for Egypt.
TEL: 202.895.5400
3 Responses to “Hosni Mubarak, the Shah of Egypt, cracks down on the Muslim Brotherhood”
By sam on Mar 31, 2008
Egyptian police is arresting opposition and opposing political activists and International political sources predict the begging of the End of the Egyptian regime on April 6th 2008, when the masses begin the Civil Disobedience across Egypt intended for total change.
By Egypt on Jan 4, 2009
we r egyptian n we will make it threw wateva cum our way.we always been wairriors n always will b.