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Prior
to the presidential elections, it was revealed how Egypt's Islamists
viewed democratic elections as an obligatory form of "holy war." Then,
any number of Islamic clerics, including influential ones, declared that
it was mandatory for Muslims to cheat during elections—if so doing would help Islamist candidates win; that the elections were a form of jihad, and those who die are "martyrs" who will attain the highest levels of paradise. Top Islamic institutions and influential clerics, such as Yusuf al-Qaradawi,
issued fatwas decreeing that all Muslims were "obligated" to go and
vote for those candidates most likely to implement Sharia law, with
threats of hellfire for those failing to do so.
The point was simple: democracy, elections,
voting, even the individual candidates, were all means to an end—the
establishment of Sharia law. Cheat, fight, and kill during elections, as
long as doing so enables Sharia; vote only for whoever will enable
Sharia; avoid hell by enabling Sharia. (It is precisely for this reason
that the very first demand made by Islamic leaders is that President
Morsi implement the totality of Sharia law in Egypt. That is, after all,
why so many voted for him.)
That many Egyptian Muslims heeded these
commands to lie, cheat, steal, and kill in order to empower Sharia,
there is no doubt. Story after story appeared in the Egyptian media—much
of it missed in the West—demonstrating as much.
Those dealing with brutal violence speak for themselves. For example, a Muslim man "beat his pregnant wife to death
upon learning that she had not voted for the Muslim Brotherhood
candidate Muhammad Morsi." According to police reports, "despite her
pleas," the husband "battered and bruised" her after discovering she had
voted for the secularist candidate, Ahmed Shafiq. She died later in the
hospital "from injuries sustained."
Likewise, a farmer was stabbed
by a "supporter of Morsi," simply for putting up a picture of the
secular Shafiq on his motorcycle. Another 52-year-old man and "supporter
of Morsi" slapped his mother for voting for Shafiq.
The man took his elderly mother to the voting booth, informing her that
she must vote for Morsi; after she voted, he pressed her to confirm
that she did in fact vote for the Islamist—only to be told that she did
not. The man "lost his temper" and slapped her in front of the other
voters and electoral supervisors.
Finally, and in accord with the Muslim Brotherhood's own directives, whole segments of Coptic Christians were prevented from voting. According to Al Ahram,
Egypt's national newspaper, in Upper Egypt, where millions of Copts
live, "the Muslim Brotherhood blockaded entire streets, prevented Copts
from voting at gunpoint, and threatened Christian families not to let
their children go out and vote."
Three observations:
1) Many analysts would like to rationalize
these anecdotes away as byproducts of "third world culture"—not the
Islamic religion per se. Yet it is curious to note that all the violence
and threats of violence that revolved around Egypt's presidential
elections were committed by the supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood
candidate, not the supporters of the secular candidate, who
instead were at the receiving end of the abuses, including death,
violence, humiliation, and injustices in general. This fact speaks for
itself.
2) Noteworthy, too, is that most of those
abused were either women (including wives and mothers) or "dhimmi"
Christian Copts—both segments of society that, according to Sharia, are
treated as "second-class citizens," to be kept in subjugation by Muslim
males, the only "full" citizens of an Islamic state.
3) Despite all these concrete facts and
more, including widespread allegations of electoral fraud at the hands
of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Obama administration's only response was
to pressure Egypt's ruling junta into declaring a victor—the
administration's favorite, Muhammad Morsi—thereby making the United
States an accomplice of the Brotherhood's electoral holy war.
Raymond Ibrahim is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and an Associate Fellow at the Middle East Forum
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