What I saw on television with the start of the trial of Mohamed Morsi was that there were dozens of protesters, or maybe a hundred or two, reflecting the decline in the popularity of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, in a way that does not need much comment or delving into details. Before that, I had seen university students affiliated with the Brotherhood engaging in terrorism inside the campus like they were terrorists from Sinai. Since I do not engage in terrorism, I will try today to mock the terrorists. The opponents of the Muslim Brotherhood did nothing over the span of a year, but only waited and waited until the mistakes of the Brotherhood toppled its rule. This reminds me of the Western saying, Don't kill a man trying to commit suicide. Today I will try to extract a smile from the readers who were concerned by the Brotherhood's rule, and did not feel relieved as the group's opponents replaced it and the Brotherhood returned to terrorism and sabotage. I know that the Egyptians are one of the funniest people in the world, so I feel like I'm carrying coals to Newcastle. The Egyptian people found themselves ruled by the Muslim Brotherhood, and felt like they were in an Adel Imam movie but without the jokes and the humor. The Muslim Brotherhood in power should have acted on the basis of a piece of wisdom that said that the smaller the promises the smaller the disappointments. The Muslim Brotherhood were not a good example in governance (I will be fair to them and say that the previous regime was not a good example either), but they were good... as a cautionary tale. Now there is terrorism that I will blame the Muslim Brotherhood's leaders and members for, if it does not stop. Now, the group's leaders are in prison, and they are bigger experts in prisons than in economics, so I ask this: If there are three Brotherhood members in a car, then who is the driver? The answer: A policeman. I heard that Dr. Mohamed Morsi, when he was president, left Egypt in the morning to visit friendly countries, and returned in the afternoon. The fulul, holdovers of the Mubarak regime, left government to spend more time with their fulus, money, but the Brotherhood left power to spend more time with their prisons. I read that the reason the Brotherhood failed in power was the deterioration of the economy, because they did not have any economic expertise and refused to seek help from experts from outside the Brotherhood. This vindicates what Gen. Omar Suleiman told me once: "Jihad, these people, we've put them in prison. I don't remember any of the prisoners was an economic expert." Perhaps the other reason for their failure to prevent economic collapse was the pollution in the villages they were born in between the Delta and Upper Egypt, which could have affected their minds. In the end, regardless of the reason, the Muslim Brotherhood in power proved that their economic experts would have failed even in running a Shisha cafe. Egypt is no different from any other country in the world. People think with their pockets before their hearts and minds, because people need to provide food for their families and a bare minimum of other life requirements. On the other hand, when the government tries to provide the needs of the citizens and fails, it starts to blame the former regime. When it fails even more, it blames Zionism and colonialism, and then after that, it resorts to prayer and fasting. In such a situation, a politician must be like a televangelist and an athlete, promising people rivers of milk and honey, and then when they discover his deception, he runs faster than those chasing him. When economic failure increased with the Brotherhood, the excuses were unacceptable and even worse than the problem. This reminds me of the story of a man who asked his friend: How is your wife? And then remembered as he asked him that the wife had died so added: I mean, is she still in the same cemetery? I heard that when the Muslim Brotherhood launched their own television station, one million TV sets in Egypt were sold, and those who could not sell their TVs smashed them. Perhaps if the Muslim Brotherhood governed at night no one would have seen them and they would have gotten away with it. But the Egyptians saw the consequences and rose up. At least, the Muslim Brotherhood achieved in one year what Hosni Mubarak took 30 years to do. They promised every Egyptian a million pounds; that is to say, one pound a year for a million years. [email protected]
