June Revolution ended decades of trade union Brotherhoodization

Hani Daniel

The June 30, 2013 revolution came to put an end to the Brotherhood’s dream of stealing the rule of Egypt, eliminating the state of institutions, adapting professional unions and fictitious civil organizations that it had established over past years, and the popular revolution exposed all the group’s schemes that tried to mislead society over the past years, and worked to deceive the political forces In order to achieve its goals, until all the group’s tricks were exposed during 2012 and 2013, when the Brotherhood disavowed all its promises to the political forces, and appeared for its truth in the community after its calls for the national lineup were falsified.

Among the most prominent of what was revealed by the group’s tricks are the attempts to penetrate the professional unions and harness them to serve their goals, the attempt to win over the Copts, the use of sweet words that do not fit with the true ideas of the group, and its ability to manipulate words and hide its radical stance towards Christian citizens.

Penetration of professional unions

Through the leader Abdel Moneim Abul-Fotouh, the Brotherhood succeeded in penetrating unions and political parties, especially the Wafd Party, and entering the People’s Assembly elections in the years 1984 and 1987 through the gate of the New Wafd party, in addition to penetrating the Doctors Syndicate in 1984, the Engineers Syndicate in 1985, the Bar Association in 1985 Then, the Union of Arab Doctors, from which it obtained generous funds under allegations of support for Gaza and the Palestinian cause, although in reality these funds and donations are being used to serve the international organization of the group.

The professional unions arena was a natural continuation of the terrorist Brotherhood’s incursion into Egyptian universities. It also served as an alternative point through which the Brotherhood sought to impose its political and societal spread and presence, and to try to compensate for the political obstacles imposed by the regime against it. As societal institutions gaining legal and popular legitimacy, the implementer for this was the professional syndicates, which can be considered as a successful investment for the university period.

Students who joined the group appeared in the mid and late seventies, as candidates in professional syndicates, in university professors’ clubs, and in the People’s Assembly, and among them was Essam Al-Erian, who was elected to the People’s Assembly and was the youngest member in 1984, and became a member of the Medical Council, and Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh, president of the Cairo University Student Union from 1975-1976, where he was elected as Secretary General of the Medical Syndicate in 1988, and there is Helmy El-Jazzar, who was elected as Assistant Secretary General of the Medical Syndicate in Giza in 1984, Abul-Ela Madi, First Vice President of the Egyptian Students Union in 1978, was elected as Assistant Secretary General of the Engineers Syndicate in 1978 1988.

The Brotherhood also used the unions to hold public meetings and conferences to discuss political reform, as political platforms to criticize the regime’s positions. During its control of the unions, the group organized exhibitions selling durable goods (such as washing machines, refrigerators, cars, household furniture, etc.), which made them reap millions of pounds in profits.

Section and forbidden crisis

The Doctors Syndicate tried, through the Brotherhood leader Essam El-Erian, to impose extremist ideas by controlling the Syndicate Council, which was evident by trying to change the doctors ’oath.

The oath stipulates that I swear by God Almighty to observe God in my profession, and to protect human life in all its roles, in all circumstances and conditions by endeavoring and striving to save it from destruction, disease, pain and anxiety, and to preserve people their dignity, to cover their shame, to conceal their secret, and to always be from The means of God’s mercy, giving my medical care to near and far, to good and wrong, friend and foe, to persevere in seeking knowledge, to seek knowledge for the benefit of man and not to harm him, to be more honorable than those who teach me, to know who is younger than me, and to be a brother to every colleague in the medical profession cooperating in righteousness and piety, and that My life will be the authenticity of my faith in my secret and openness, pure from what he disgraces towards God and his messengers and the believers, and God is a martyr. ”

While the members of the Brotherhood sought to change the oath and replace part of the oath to “and for my life to be the authenticity of my faith in my secret and openness, pure from what he disgraces towards God, His Messenger and the believers, and God is a martyr.”

The Muslim Brotherhood also tried to impose its closed-minded ideas and prevent women from examining a doctor alone and having a “forbidden”, which is considered by many to be a continuous attempt by the Brotherhood to impose its extremist ideas on society, despite the presence of Captain Dr. Hamdi Al-Sayed in this The period 2003, as one of the leaders of the dissolved National Party, but he rejected the accusations that he was subjected to because of his leaving the Brotherhood leaders to dominate the union, but under societal pressure and intellectuals, the union backed down from changing the section and the amendments forcing women to accompany one of their relatives in the event of going to see a doctor.

Syndicate of Journalists and the Brotherhood

The Brotherhood also succeeded in infiltrating the Journalists Syndicate, and the presence of a number of Brotherhood supporters in the Council of the Journalists Syndicate, including Muhammad Abdul Quddus, Muhammad Kharjah, and Mamdouh Al-Wali, and they succeeded in granting membership to a large number of brothers in the Syndicate through press institutions and websites, which contributed to Control over many details within the guild.

The Brotherhood tried to penetrate Coptic journalists, through a joint project with Watani newspaper, under the title “Coexistence”, whereby joint meetings would be held between Coptic youth and Muslim Brotherhood youth, and talking about political and societal issues, and trying to push Coptic youth to engage in politics and join The activities of the Brotherhood’s journalists, and these attempts continued during the period from 2005 to 2008, until the Brotherhood’s motives were revealed until things ended as they began, and one party did not succeed in convincing the other of the possibility of cooperation in the future.

Engineers and Guard

Several times, the Brotherhood tried to infiltrate the Engineers Syndicate, and betting that the union’s members would not participate in the elections, which is evident from the participation of no more than 10% of the members of the General Assembly, while they prevail.

Until the final blow was in 2014, when the emergency general assembly of the Engineers Syndicate approved by the majority of votes to withdraw confidence from Eng. Majed Khulousi, the head of the Engineers Syndicate and the Brotherhood Council of the Syndicate, wrote the death certificate of the Brotherhood in the Engineers Syndicate and eliminated their influence within the Syndicate, which lasted for nearly 20 years Al-Madar last period, to serve the group’s purposes politically, internally and externally.

The engineers participated in the vote of 8887 votes to withdraw confidence from the Council and the Brotherhood’s Syndicate in exchange for 6876 votes without reflecting the mood of the engineers and their desire to change and to cross the Syndicate to safety, in preparation for its launching again towards its role in developing strategies aimed at the advancement of the homeland after the June 30 revolution, from During the formulation of national projects through engineering and technical expertise that the Syndicate is filled with.

The engineers accused the union members of infiltration and control to serve the Brotherhood, as they brothered the union to the core, and appointed more than 42 general directors of the union belonging to the Brotherhood.