Egyptians President Copies the Leadership Style of a French Pharaoh, not the Prophet (saw)

News:

On the 2nd of October, MENA News reported that the Egyptian President informed the citizens of the land that they are to endure less food and resources in order to do their national duty to allow Egypt to progress materially. Currently, Egypt is facing its worst economic crisis in living memory, and there is mounting criticism of the policies and a string of embarrassing revelations about the 9 year leadership of the ex-military ruler. The new chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ben Cardin threatened over the weekend to block military aid to Egypt – which runs at $1.3 billion annually – if it does not take concrete steps to improve human rights in the country.

Comment:

History seems to be repeating itself when we are reminded of the famous words attributed to Marie-Antoinette, the queen of France during the French Revolution. As the story goes, it was the queen's response upon being told that her starving peasant subjects had no bread she responded arrogantly, “Let them eat cake (brioche).”

On Saturday, the 7th of October, El Sisi addressed the staggering foreign debt of $160 billion saying; “What kind of country do you want to live in? Do you want to build Egypt and make it a nation of note, or not? Do you consider building an adventure? Do you consider reforming an adventure?”

His incompetent financing of dozens of mega projects, including a new capital in the desert east of Cairo, a resort city on the Mediterranean and expensive and cutting-edge commuter trains and a monorail, have caused massive poverty.

The president's message that the Egyptians should make do with less for the sake of the nation is being repeated, in different phrasing, by dozens of content creators across social media pages. The words come in the wake of US Democratic Senator Bob Menendez and embarrassing allegations that he wielded his influence to aid Egypt’s government in exchange for bribes.

El Sisi and his government have conveniently remained silent on Mr. Menendez's case, and this Ummah can be clear that no cutback in luxury, food or expenses will be made from his personal lifestyle or that of his despotic entourage. The sickening and greedy attitude of the colonist masters in Egypt mimicked the oppression of Pharaoh and his challenge to Allah's (swt) law of justice. The other question of money raised in the billions of “military aid” he is receiving. There is no war on the poverty of the women and children but on the Islamic lifestyle. And where is this military aid when the Palestinians are dying from the need for food, water and protection from the enemies of Islam?

Verily we see the empty rhetoric of these traitors and their call to nationalism whilst they dance on the graves of the suffering in their palaces filled with the public resources of the Ummah. We must account these evil tyrants as the Prophets did and resume the Islamic ruling as the Prophet (saw) did, so they cry out as Pharaoh did in his submission!

(وَجَاوَزْنَا بِبَنِي إِسْرَائِيلَ الْبَحْرَ فَأَتْبَعَهُمْ فِرْعَوْنُ وَجُنُودُهُ بَغْيًا وَعَدْوًا حَتَّى إِذَا أَدْرَكَهُ الْغَرَقُ قَالَ آمَنتُ أَنَّهُ لا إِلِـهَ إِلاَّ الَّذِي آمَنَتْ بِهِ بَنُو إِسْرَائِيلَ وَأَنَاْ مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ)

“We brought the Children of Israel across the sea. Then Pharaoh and his soldiers pursued them unjustly and oppressively. But as Pharaoh was drowning, he cried out, “I believe that there is no god except that in whom the Children of Israel believe, and I am ˹now˺ one of those who submit.” [Yunus: 90]

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Imrana Mohammad
Member of the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir