The Brotherhood’s failure to settle comfortably in power was accompanied by deep contradictions in their discourse, which was based on the principle of “empowerment,” itself based on the concept that “necessity justifies the forbidden.” This concept of empowerment allowed the Brotherhood to use any means to reach the seat of power, such as participating in a military coup or participating in elections that they rigged beforehand, as was the case with Morsi, since the Egyptian constitution prohibited the participation of candidates with a religious background, They allowed themselves to participate in the Free Officers’ coup, i.e., the group of officers around Nasser, and before that, in 1948, they assassinated the Prime Minister of Egypt, Fahmy al-Nuqrashi, There is not enough space to mention all their assassinations and bombings, The only constant in their discourse or behavioral manifestation was their rejection of the civil state and their promotion of a religious, pastoral style of governance, followed by lying and permissible deception in order to gain power, as was applied in the case of Morsi, First, Morsi must be elected by any means necessary, and after sitting in the seat, we will deal with whatever happens.
The Brotherhood did not reject the blatant linguistic vulgarity regarding the civil state, The secularists wanted a civil state according to the European model, and the Brotherhood wanted a civil state or the city state, i.e., Yathrib, They naively exploited the similarity in name between civility and the city (Yathrib), which was not a civil city but a theocracy that rejected any form of democracy, as it was practiced in later eras, There was no equality between women and men in Yathrib and the like of the characteristics of democracy that we know in this era.
No sooner had Morsi sat on the chair than he dismissed all the women who had positions such as heads of departments, etc. Gradually, the dismissal included women in lower positions, then lower, etc. In addition to purging the positions and chairs from the middle level down to the lowest of the female element, Morsi tried to abolish the phenomenon of election that brought him to power, i.e., breaking the ladder by which he ascended to the chair, Then he practiced repression, takfir (excommunication), and the elimination of the opposition, and tried to apply what came in Sharia regarding the president being chosen by God, and thus it is not permissible to criticize or rebel against him, In other words, Morsi came to power through civil means and tried to exercise power through religious means, represented by jihad in the cause of God and not in the cause of Egypt.
Theoretically, all religious monotheistic movements are considered qualified to practice violence, but historical reality has proven that the fragments of religious monotheism, its mixtures and consequences did not harm the behavior of other societies, such as European societies, which brought Lutheranism and did not act on everything that Martin Luther wrote… such as “Dear gentlemen, stab with the dagger, attack and slaughter better, and if you meet death, it is better for you, for you can never meet a happier death, because you die obeying God’s command and word.” It is as if the Brotherhood acted on what Martin Luther advised, as during the dispersal of the Brotherhood’s sit-in in Rabaa and Nahda squares, 52 churches were burned and 12 churches were looted, according to the report of the Egyptian Fact-Finding Committee, in addition to many hostile acts by Brotherhood groups against the Copts throughout Egypt.
In general, it can be said that the Muslim Brotherhood has played a major role in hindering the development of a positive regional reality in this area by promoting fundamentalist religious sentiments and reckless extremism, They have altered the course of life in their own image, afflicted by the pervasive culture of terrorism within their consciousness and intellectual being, They attempted to secularize the concept of God, but it became clear that their God is very different from the gods of others, Their God is a militant, jihadist one, and therefore antagonistic to the peaceful conceptions of others, The God of others does not kill, enslave, steal, or seize the lands of others through conquest, They have crippled regional politics by restricting it to rigid dogma, and rigidity is not inherent to the nature of politics, Furthermore, the coercion or necessity of homogeneity is fatal to politics, which thrives only on diversity—the diversity of people and their beliefs. As a religion, they were unable to absorb politics, and their politics were unable to absorb religion,They adopted a path of domination and imposition, often through violence, They refused to submit to secular civilization, believing that… That stubbornness is strength and denying scientific objectivity and self-interest is a kind of extreme courage and overwhelming bravery in politics, knowing that life is run by politics and not by religious mysticism, The interest of the peoples is summarized in the phrase “If you support God, He will support you.” We do not know why the hungry, weak human being must support God, and God the Almighty, the Compeller, is capable of everything, When and how did the Almighty, the Compeller, support His servants? They were keen and insistent on exercising guardianship over others and did not care to review the results of this guardianship, Their guardianship was on behalf of the Creator who does not err, and the Creator erred in determining the best destiny for humans in heaven, without proof or eyewitness testimony, They exercised guardianship over politics, that is, over the destiny of nations, and did not care about the destinies of people, because what mattered, in their view, was life in heaven and not life on earth, Political Islam rejects advice and refuses to learn how to participate, because political Islam is God’s representative on earth, who has no partner, Political Islam is very far from building positive relations with the rest of the world that represents modernity, because modernity is an abomination and a corrupting influence on religion, according to the sheikhs’ jurisprudence!
