Egypt: Islamists want to turn back the clock

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This wave of terrorism reflects a desperate attempt by Islamists to regain power in Egypt, the power they lost when the Muslim Brotherhood showed its true colours under Mohammed Morsi’s rule.

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By Nabil Esmail | January 28, 2014

Ehab Lotayef’s commentary about the political situation in Egypt on the third anniversary of the uprising three years ago this week failed to make mention of recent acts of terrorism by Islamists in Cairo and other Egyptian cities (Jan. 25, “Egypt’s long struggle for democracy”).

This wave of terrorism reflects a desperate attempt by Islamists to regain power in Egypt, the power they lost when the Muslim Brotherhood showed its true colours under Mohammed Morsi’s rule.

First and foremost, the Brotherhood loathes Egyptian nationalism. As its late philosopher Sayyid Qutb wrote, “The citizenship of a Muslim is his religion.”

Second, the Brotherhood, in spite of taking advantage of western-style democracy to take power, considers democracy to be blasphemous. Its political outlook starts from the principle that only God should govern, and only the religiously enlightened know God’s ways and wishes. Democracy gives the power to people, to humans. Therefore it raises humans to God’s status, which is blasphemy.

Third, the Brotherhood’s main objective is the revival of an Islamist caliphate, a far-reaching Nation of Islam.

Bread, freedom and social justice, the chants of Egypt’s 2011 revolution, are the least of the Brotherhood’s concerns.

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Nabil Esmail is a professor of engineering at Concordia University and a former dean of engineering.

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