Obama, Parliament and Quran Burning

Some hours ago, American President Barack Hussein Obama apologized to the Muslim world for the actions of his soldiers in burning the Holy Quran at the American Bagram Air Force Base in occupied Afghanistan. And weeks ago, news bureaus obtained pictures of American soldiers urinating on the bodies of martyrs from the Taliban movement, which is fighting to liberate this country from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) invaders. Truly, these events were deliberately arranged, like what happened when the invaders threw the body of Osama bin Laden from aboard a battleship to the fish of the sea and when they killed Saddam Hussein on the morning of Eid al-Adha, as though he were a sheep to be sacrificed, in a clear message to all Muslims.

These are contrived violations of what is sacred, private and symbolic to Arab Muslims, executed in a precise way, as the burning of the Holy Quran and the urination on the bodies, along with the other violations, were attended to and covered by media correspondents with the goal of sending a clear message to the Muslim world: “We are destroying and defiling what is holiest and most important to you, O Muslims!”

Truly, I am disappointed in the response of our people in Egypt to these ugly violations by the Pentagon, particularly in the instance of the Quran burning. It came during the visit of the American Chief of Staff to Egypt and the region. He met with major Arab and Muslim leaders. Not a day has passed since these criminal instances, like the Quran burning, that prominent American officials arrived in Cairo, and we didn’t hear about American officials meeting with Egyptian officials or religious men during this catastrophe. This is destroying the relationship with the people and generating hostility, hatred, rancor and malice.

We didn’t hear any response originating from the Egyptian “People’s Assembly.” For example, the majority is supposed to be Muslim and were elected by the people because of this. The president of that same assembly attracted attention for receiving American leaders without consideration of the fact that their soldiers burned the Holy Quran in Afghanistan after occupying that country for years. We also find that the media is broadcasting only brief news about what is happening, as though Egypt is a banana republic. And this unfortunately lackluster reaction comes as though the Quran that was burned is meaningless to al-Azhar. But who from the ulama is rising up to condemn this American behavior?

Aggravating this, savage herds of Zionists who are occupying beloved Palestine stormed the courtyards of the al-Aqsa Mosque, may God bless it, the location of the ascension of our prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him. Meanwhile, there is silence from Arab leaders themselves, who left our people in our land to face our enemies on their own until the people became divided, eating and drinking as though we were cattle in Egypt, attributing our silence to the rule of Mubarak. Our silence is now attributable to the Parliament, controlled by Islamists. Why are they waiting? What are they watching?

It is our belief that Washington and its ally, Tel Aviv, planned what happened. We are watching the insults to Muslims, as they adhere to the plan of chaos that they are working to provoke in Egypt: the uncontrollable security situations here, the national Egyptian attempts to strike, sometimes through huge financing that they send to elements designed to shake the stability of Egypt and the Nile of its revolution. They also do this through their threats against those who run the country and the economic blockade that they are imposing on the sons of our glorious people in their attempt to contain our revolution and ensure its failure. We are not attaching hopes to the government of Dr. Ganzouri because it is a temporary government, just as we do not want to weigh as a burden on the champions of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, who are facing pressure not to be borne by humans, standing up, shutting up, standing up like lions to protect our country from these plans. But we are facing the preoccupied Parliament with sub-issues, and busy elements belonging to the Parliament are being insulted for their management of our country and protection of our revolution. We are confronting them (the Parliament) so that they, in turn, become what they should be.

In the same context, we find that it is appropriate to publicize the following study, which we have been delegated by a friend who refused to be named because of special considerations. The important study came under the title, “How does the revolutionary Parliament support Egypt’s rebirth?” and puts forward a program for the Egyptian Parliament in the face of American plans and the frustration with those plans. In what follows, we will review the study in the following form:

A Study Describing How the Revolutionary Parliament Supports Egypt’s Rebirth

Introduction

In the light, the fact of a severe shortage of data and facts associated with the economic and social problems in Egypt in general and the problems presently associated with the Egyptian street in particular is emphasized. A majority of the members of the people’s assembly, with noble and unbiased motives, reflect the desires of a glorious majority of the Egyptian people, who suffered and are still suffering from the results of decades in the shadows of hopelessness and frustration from unfulfilled hopes and ambitions. Until the people no longer suffer, the situation is that they have not achieved their hopes, and they ought to express them to the revolution’s Parliament. Thus, we may observe whether the present government, led by Kamal Ganzouri, offers real solutions to deep-rooted problems or raises more problems in the logic of crisis management, handing the problems over to the governments to come. We have found that we propose that your presence be based on your distinguished assembly’s legislative power and constitutional regulatory authority. You must have this until you accomplish the people’s expectations and transfer Egypt to a stable place with comprehensive development in order to interrupt what the government planned for it; they placed the ball in your court in order to tell you that the reason for the outcome of the commands is from agreement to the crises, pointing the finger at you. This is in addition to what the media war will do because of your failure to realize the people’s ambitions and the goals of the revolution.

First: Dimensions of Security Disarray and the Negative Impact on the Economic Situation

Research studies have confirmed that where we live, there are implications of security chaos, generally from attacks; bank robberies; blowing up natural gas pipelines to stop gas exports to all of Jordan and Israel; the outcome of deliberate fires in petrol companies (Belayim Petroleum and Suez, recently); what happened during the Port Said massacre; what Israel has planned as rival projects for the Suez canal; what is happening inside the demonstrations and clashes between those who are firing on the revolutionaries themselves and the security forces and the army to try to storm the interior ministry and the defense ministry; what the media is doing with its suspicion of satellites and video clips on the Internet, lurking in order to destroy the tourism sector in Egypt and stop the hard currency supply from outside to inside; what is happening because of cut roads and railways; attacks on police stations; attempts to storm prisons and all those that are injured in the main results; the collapse of the Egyptian economy; starvation of the people; and the failure of all attempts to build an regime with a strong staff. The question behind all this is: What is the ultimate goal?

The Answer:

1 – Stable control of Egypt and its authorities, in which the West, under the leadership of the United States of America, can achieve its ends in the Arab homeland and North Africa. This would follow the bombing of locations with the goal of controlling it. They would use specialized, secret operations of foreigners and native sons to sow chaos, defame the character of the state and penetrate defense installations to sabotage the foundations of the state, to facilitate the stealing of maps of missile defense systems and to weaken the security system in order to pave the road for the entrance of NATO forces (like what happened in Libya).

2 – Research studies and secret leaks demonstrated that foreign civilian social organizations and Egyptian organizations supported financially from abroad (by America and the West) were directed in their actions and statements by the forefront intelligence agency, the CIA, and Mossad, the Gestapo under the cover of democracy and human rights. They had international support from the U.S. State Department, the Amnesty International organization, the International Human Rights Group and financing from the National Endowment of Democracy and the International Crisis Group. They had the goal of achieving penetration into the sovereign agency of Egypt with the control of elites that will act in American and Western interests and not the interests of the Egyptian or Arab peoples.

3 – The issue of foreign financing in Egypt, which is the basis of political and partisan financing. It aims to shake the stability and interior security to serve the same goals as the previous regime.

4 – Attempts to restructure the interior ministry to purge corrupt elements, whether from foreign penetration or dependence on the dissolved regime, haven’t been taken seriously so far. They had offered a number of police generals with projects for restructuring, but the projects were refused by Generals Mahmoud Wagdy and Mansour el-Essawy and delayed by General Muhammed Ibrahim Yusuf, since these corrupt domestic leaders are more powerful than the minister.

Second: The State’s General Budget Problems 2011-2012

1- The main problem is visible in the fact that 55 percent of all general sovereign expenditures go to two items, which are:

A – The provision of support, which accounts for 33 percent.

B – The provision of general debt services, which accounts for 22 percent.

In analyzing this, it was found that the support costs up to 139 billion Egyptian pounds, and the greater part of this (98 billion) is channeled to fuel subsidies (gasoline, solar, cooking fuel, and diesel). The rest goes to bread and other commodity subsidies. Considering that no one in the government wants to solve the bread problem, we find that it is used to distract the people from other problems. And its involvement in the cycle of conflict is to cover the cost of living and daily bread. But as for the butane pipeline, Dr. Gouda Abdel Khalek said that it, as a solution, clashed with the butane mafia. So it was not logical because butane is a strategic commodity affecting national security. So where is the government’s power? And is the solution cash subsidies instead of in-kind support?

In analyzing the public debt service management file, it was found that the current budget deficit reached 144 billion Egyptian pounds, 116 billion of them from public debt that was accumulated from previous budgets, while the remaining 28 billion Egyptian pounds belong to partisan debt handlers for wage increases and development plans.

It is surprising that the public banks in Egypt have globally-downgraded credit, since the debt is not paid and the continuing generation of new debt threatens a future disaster. Likewise, Egypt’s economic credit classification was cut five times from the beginning of the revolution until now. This is part of the planned blockade and strangulation of the Egyptian economy.

2 – If we observe expenditures in the national budget for 2011-2012, we find that it slightly exceeds 86 billion Egyptian pounds. This is what is making the government continue its outcry while failing to present any feasible solutions. The study asked a large number of economists and experts to comment on Assam Sharif’s government, then Ganzouri’s, to no avail.

If we audited this item we would find that it places a maximum limit on pay and keeps Magdy and 93,000 working advisers in national institutions and agencies, earning more than 12 billion Egyptian pounds annually. It provides the equivalent of 30 billion Egyptian pounds, is able to appoint and install them in temporary employment at the national level and also balances wages at the same level as consumer goods. This is in addition to the need for justice to be available in all national ministries and agencies, with no exception for petrol companies, public banks, the courts or the presidency of the republic, with a maximum wage so that the Ganouzi government could apply it. Additionally, his government recently said that special funds will be spent on temporary employment for the installation of the government, but this is not a solution in the medium or long term.

3 – The decisions adopted that, “Your assembly refused to borrow from the International Monetary Fund, which would provide alternatives to financing on your part, so this is not the responsibility of the government.” This is our position: How is it possible to achieve this decision in the shadow of financial and administrative corruption and willful waste of public money? We have alternative self-financing in following form:

A – Minimum and maximum wage limits applied immediately without waiting for the 2012-2013 budget.

B – “Egyptian Aid” legislation to support the Egyptian economy through the establishment of specialized banks. One of these will be for micro-financing, small contributions to cure the unemployment problem and other national plans. This is so that it is not “Egyptian Aid” in the form of donations and charity, begging and exploiting the Egyptian people’s sympathy, but is through an initial public offering, offering shares to preserve the people’s rights and interests in a lost social justice, set at a nominal value of one Egyptian pound.

C – Confiscating and nationalizing all the property of Mubarak, his family and his men, who are now being investigated in graft, money-laundering and administrative and political corruption cases, like what happened following the 1952 revolution.

D – Is there political will to restore money that was looted and smuggled out of Egypt in collusion between foreign and domestic powers to starve the Egyptian people and cause the failure of the revolution? Because without money, we will not see the goals of the revolution achieved or a regional role for Egypt, and we will see the size of Egypt’s sovereign debt reach 1,300 billion Egyptian pounds, among it a foreign debt of 36.2 billion pounds. This number is enough to bankrupt Egypt if it continues for another year.

E – If Arab minds are applied to finding solutions, then we suggest the creation of an Arab Monetary Fund, with all Arab and Islamic states as members. This strategic demand will halt the inevitable confrontation with the plans of America and the West to control the capabilities and underground resources of Egypt with an introduction into the Gulf region. Likewise, the time has come to dispense with international monetary and economic organizations like the IMF and the World Bank, which are driven by the emperors of wealth, bankers from Wall Street, London and Paris and owners of corporations from a number of nationalities.

Third: It Is Necessary for the Members of the Revolutionary Parliament to Implement the Following:

1 – A detailed budget and accurate framework for 2011-2012 with strengths and weaknesses.

2 – A known strategic vision for the institutions of the Egyptian armed forces, addressing American and Western experimental plans to influence Egyptian sovereignty and tamper with Egypt’s national security, which are financed by some Gulf states. Likewise, the Revolutionary Parliament must address and push through legislation at the time of demonstrations induced against the Egyptian Army. It is also necessary for members of Parliament to make cautionary statements relating to the Egyptian army's budget and economic institutions. They support food security, national security and army institutions, serve civilians, contribute to solving some of the problems relating to food security and stand up to American demands concerning privatization of the armed services’ economic foundations.

3 – Organize training courses for members of the current people’s assembly to support their experience and education in economic, social, political and security issues, so that things continue positively amongst members in addressing crucial issues.

4 – It is possible, for those within the people’s assembly who desire to use the Google search engine to view some studies relating to the problems on the Egyptian street and in national security:

A – Egypt is in danger from these decisions.

B – There is a preferable alternative to American aid.

C – How to realize social justice for the Egyptian people.

D – There is a plan to control Egypt by spreading chaos and destroying her economy.

This is the end of the valuable study, and we hope that it moves you to urgent action to address its recommendations and report on them, instead of maintaining this despicable silence, which will harm the national Islamic current in Egypt and the Arab world.