The point of the Muslim Brotherhood's campaign against the judiciary and what President Mohammed Morsi said on Al-Jazeera about the issue seems clear and does not require profound thinking to be understood and grasped. The “invasion" of cleansing the judiciary confirms that the Brotherhood believes itself to always be right, and moves forward with everything it does on the path it has chosen for itself since the Revolution without giving any consideration to the forces that reject it or oppose its policies. This is not just because the Brotherhood, the party and the President consider members of the opposition across the spectrum to be either foreign agents, or remnants of the former regime, or counterrevolutionaries, or haters of religion, but also because they consider them to have no influence on the long run, and because they believe that everything Egypt has been witnessing, in terms of protests, clashes or demonstrations, merely represents a phase that will not last long. It is a phase which the “regime" will overcome, albeit with a few losses, which will certainly not include for the President to lose his seat, the party its hegemony or the Brotherhood its history and influence inside Egypt and outside of it. Nonetheless, all of the measures taken, behaviors engaged in and decisions made by the President, his party and the group he is affiliated to, ever since he took office on June 30 of last year, at every level, fall within such a context. And those who would think hard or look for justifications to convince themselves otherwise would be wasting their time in a futile exercise indeed!! The President is convinced of what he is doing and determined to do it. The party positively believes that it is heading in the right direction, and the Brotherhood is absolutely certain that backing down would mean the failure of the Islamist project and the loss of the group's history and the future of its mission! Do not look for contradictions in the behavior of the Brotherhood, or for paradoxes in the stances taken by the party or in the decisions taken by the President. Do not tell yourself that the judiciary, which the Brotherhood seeks to cleanse, is the same body that supervised the last presidential elections, announced its results and brought the President to his seat; that it is the one that ran the parliamentary elections which brought a majority of Islamists to the People's Assembly (before it was dissolved) and then to the Shura Council; or that this is the same judiciary that ran two constitutional referendums since Mubarak stepped down, both of which produced results in favor of the Muslim Brotherhood – and that, between the two referendums, the President stood to swear his constitutional oath of office before this very judiciary and granted its prominent figures medals and decorations, speaking profusely of its fairness and neutrality. And do not travel too far back in memory to remember that this is the same judiciary which dissolved parliament twice under Sadat and once under Mubarak. Do not check your information to discover that the judiciary gave the Muslim Brotherhood rulings that invalidated election results in numerous districts in which they had lost in the 2005 elections, or that Cairo's Court of Cassation annulled in 2006 the decision by the Supreme State Security Prosecution Office to detain Engineer Khairat Al-Shater and other leaders and members of the Muslim Brotherhood accused in the case of the Al-Azhar Militia and ordered their release – they were subsequently detained administratively then referred by Mubarak to a military court. Do not research contemporary history, because you will read about the famous ruling by the Administrative Court against exporting Egyptian natural gas to Israel in 2009, or the ruling to expel the University Guards in 2010, and the repeal of the monopoly law sponsored by Ahmed Ezz. Such matters mean nothing to the Muslim Brotherhood, or are mere exceptions that do not negate the rule... Even if we were to say that the Prosecution Office has so far not filed any cases regarding the issue of the “prison breakouts" during the Revolution, in which the Muslim Brotherhood stands accused, nor has it investigated the reports that accused it of being involved in the “Battle of the Camel" incident, or referred the case of the Heliopolis (Ittihadiya) Palace incident last November to the courts, or leveled accusations against Muslim Brotherhood leaders with regard to incidents in which activists were tortured or beaten. One should not even ask about the issue of besieging the Constitutional Court, early last December, to prevent it from ruling to invalidate the Constitutive Assembly and the Shura Council, or the issue of besieging the Media Production City (MPC) and the attacks against journalists, twice – the first time in August and again at the end of last month. Do not tell yourself that these are all things that ended up benefiting the Islamist movement and the Muslim Brotherhood, as they are all mere exceptions! Rather, tell yourself that the Administrative Court decided to dissolve the Constitutive Assembly last April, and that the Constitutional Court ordered the dissolution of the People's Assembly last June ...before Morsi brought it back after taking office, following which the judiciary decided to invalidate the return of Parliament in July. Remind yourself of the decision to suspend parliamentary elections last month, and to refer the law governing them to the Constitutional Court, in addition of course to the decision to invalidate the appointment of Counselor Talaat Abdullah as Prosecutor General on March 27. Ask yourself about the behavior of the court looking into the case of the breakout of a convict from the Wadi Natrun prison during the Revolution, and the fact that it mentioned that Morsi and Muslim Brotherhood leaders had come out of the same prison! Tell yourself that the judiciary ruled that Prime Minister Hesham Qandil should be jailed and removed from his post, and that this same judiciary recently ruled to invalidate President Morsi's call to hold parliamentary elections because they would be based on an unconstitutional law... Do not be deceived by the stance taken by Justice Minister Counselor Ahmed Mekky and think that he resigned in protest. Tell yourself that he was going to leave anyway, because he accepted some things and did not accept everything, in a time when choices have become limited to either accepting “everything" or ...being cleansed.
