Muslim Brotherhood defames deceased president Mubarak, Egyptian state

Shaimaa Hefzy

The terrorist Muslim Brotherhood organization has started a defamation campaign against Egypt’s longest-serving ruler in more than 150 years, Mohamed Hosni Mubarak, who died on Tuesday.

The campaign, despite its utter immorality, extended to defame the Egyptians state itself, its figures, army, official and media authorities.

The terrorist group issued an official statement the same day Mubarak died, describing him of a “tyrant” who spread injustice and repression among Egyptians and dismantled Egypt’s social fabric.

The statement further said all the tyrants of Egypt should reckon such day – referring to death – and be afraid of god’s punishment that no power on earth could deter.

The highlights how the Muslim Brotherhood are dealing with double personality, as they themselves have been seeking power since the group was founded.

During Mubarak’s era, the Muslim Brotherhood ran in the 2005 parliamentary elections as independents, not members of the group, and won 88 seats in parliament, despite that they accused the government of fraud.

They also renewed in 2010, during Mubarak’s reign as well, the group’s refusal to Christians or women to assume presidency in Egypt, and after the revolution started, they rapidly started scheming to attribute it to themselves and then rule the country.

The dispute between the terrorist group and the Mubarak era also reinforced the testimony of the former president towards the group, in the events of storming prisons, after the revolution of January 25, 2011.

On December 26, 2018, Mubarak testified on Wednesday in the re-trial of ousted president Mohamed Morsi and others in the case known in the media as the “jailbreak trial.”

The case dates back to violent incidents surrounding a jail breakout after 28 January 2011.

In June 2015, a Cairo criminal court sentenced Morsi and five other top Brotherhood figures, including Mohamed Badie, Saad El-Katatni and Essam El-Erian, to death over charges of  damaging and setting fire to prison buildings, murder, attempted murder, looting prison weapons depots and releasing prisoners while escaping from the Wadi El-Natroun prison.

Mubarak told the court that the tunnels between Gaza and Egypt had existed long before the 25 January revolution and that they were mostly used to transfer food commodities and other goods.

When asked by the judge whether the tunnels were used during the early days of 25 January revolution, Mubarak declined to answer without permission from the president and the commandership of the Armed Forces to speak on the matter.

Nevertheless, he stated that former head of the general intelligence service Omar Suleiman informed him on 29 January that about 800 militants had infiltrated the eastern border through the tunnels, but he did not inform him about the nationality of those militants or the reasons for their entry.

Mubarak said during his testimony that before 25 January the Egyptian general intelligence service was following the meetings of the members of the international Muslim Brotherhood organization and coordination between them.

Mubarak passed away on February 25 at the age of 91.