Sadat’s latest speech: A document exposing Brotherhood’s fakeness to the world

Hisham El Naggar

The US Congress has recently announced that the late Egyptian President Mohamed Anwar Sadat was awarded its gold medal; in recognition of his historic achievements and contributions to peace in the Middle East – as stated by the Egyptian Embassy in Washington on August 23, 2018 [1]. This comes 100 years after the birth of the late president and 40 years after the signing of the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel.

However, the paradox lies in the American reluctance to classify the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization (2) as American circles that are honoring Sadat today are living a similar story with the Brotherhood that incited against him and contributed to his assassination.

The honoring of Congress to the late President Anwar Sadat is worthy because he is one of the symbols that left its mark on the most important and most dangerous events of contemporary history, and as a condemnation on the other hand of common perceptions and fantasies that moved from the Egyptian scene to the American one and vice versa, without focusing on the main lessons and determinants when dealing with the Islamic Movement and the Muslim Brotherhood.

Common Illusions
President Sadat has preceded the United States of America on embracing the illusions of benefiting from the weight of the group in the Egyptian street, and its ability more than any other political faction to influence the community and penetrate state institutions and the army. He thought – as Washington thought before and later in the era of Barack Obama – that the Muslim Brotherhood will protect him against the wave of violence and religious extremism as well as the reduction of political opponents within the leftist and Nasserist movement [3].

President Sadat did not realize what is common between the Brotherhood and the groups, relying on the distinction between the two strategies adopted by the Muslim Brotherhood and other groups in dealing with the regime. He also did not pay attention to their sharing of the same ideological basics and goals. Three decades after the assassination of President Sadat Washington embraced the same hypothesis; when it believed that the group, which claims to bear the version of moderate Islam will help curb the Islamic extremist groups.

President Sadat and the former American administration have seen that putting aside the Muslim Brotherhood is necessary until the completion of higher priority files, first and foremost by curbing political forces and opponents, believing that the group will contribute to achieving this goal. One of the reasons for Sadat’s hesitation in arresting the members of the group – those who are dangerous and whose number stands at 7,000 – was the fear of the negative impression of the West, and the possibility of accusing him of backtracking on the march of democracy.

Security and political problems
For the sake of his need for the Brotherhood as a political backup, President Sadat went to alliance with right-wing forces, led by the Muslim Brotherhood [7]. That caused a terrible imbalance between the security file and the political track. He also ignored the security reports that warned of tolerance with highly dangerous terrorists. “[8] A gap has emerged between the political track and the security file, while both need coordination and complementarity, because the political reality is not served by its enemies and opponents from organizations that penetrate it to destroy it from within.

This happened, although in both cases – Egyptian and American – there was an awareness of the extremist Brotherhood’s methods, violent practices and reactionary ideology, as well as the nature of their objectives. Sadat, himself a prominent member of the July 1952 revolution, wrote that the Muslim Brotherhood group has clear objectives which is “the overthrow of us and the seizure of power in Egypt. “[9] Documents recently declassified by the US Intelligence Service under the title” Building Support Rules “, dating back to 1986, reflect the nature of the Brotherhood’s ideology, plans, methods, alliances and objectives.

Egyptian writers and researchers have warned early on the nature of the Brotherhood’s plans to play on contradictions, radicalism, fanatical ideas and armed cells, giving it space to expand. It does this while promoting the fact that it is the alternative and guarantor of containment. US intelligence documents point to this approach when they suggest that whoever belongs to the Brotherhood is distributed on twenty-four extremist groups which are the jihadist groups on the scene at the time.

The Brotherhood relies on the plan to divert the energies of the targeted state to reduce the threat of armed organizations and declare unequivocally its adoption of a comprehensive strategy of confrontation and engagement in a war to topple the regime and its institutions to establish a religious government according to its Salafist-Jihadi views. Progressively expanding in the fields of education, culture, politics and economics.

The results of the events in which the group was a party over the last decades in the Egyptian, Arab and international arena show the depth of the ties it brings with the rest of the political Islam factions. [11] So, the armed jihadist movement contributes to weakening the state in order to justify the introduction of the Brotherhood alternative, which is being built on time.

Washington has bypassed the warnings of the group’s danger and its aims to control the world at a later stage under the title of “World Mastery,” and the “Sayyid Qutb” approach cited in the CIA’s “Building Support Rules” ], calling for the annihilation of Western civilization for the purpose of establishing the Islamic State of the world. Also, late Egyptian President Anwar Sadat bypassed the approach of the extremist group and its secret methods that he knows more than others, which is the result of his extensive experience in the group even before the rule of Abdel Nasser.

This perception fundamentally undermines the way in which the Brotherhood deals with the Egyptian political reality. It has been proven that it is deceiving itself to promote itself as a national political partner while preparing to control its power in the foreseeable future through cooperation with other partners within the takfiri trend.

The emergence and development of the takfiri armed groups began with the establishment of an umbrella for them, the Brotherhood, and that all the leaders of these groups are graduates of the Muslim Brotherhood’s ideology and goals. [13] There were strong ties between the Brotherhood leaders and their counterparts in other groups even after they split as MB leader Issam al-Arian remained in close contact with Tariq al-Zomor, leader of the Islamic Group [14].