Cairo - Tharwat al-Kharbawi, an expert on Islamist Movements, said that Abdul Muneim Abul Fattouh, a former presidential hopeful and Muslim Brotherhood dissenter, used to give lectures along with other Brotherhood's leaders at the British Royal Institute of International Affairs, commonly known as Chatham House. The institute is believed to have a major role in swaying public opinion and the mass media in Egypt, because it is an institute specialized in the control of media and its personalities. Al-Kharbawi lamented the fact that a group of media professionals, activists and politicians have been subject to media selling-out. They are now compromising of their professional integrity, morality, authenticity, and principles in exchange for personal gain, such as money and fame. He added that during the chaos that rocked Egypt immediately after 2011, bags packed with money used to be transferred to those persons through some foreign embassies on Egyptian territories. In his interview on Tuesday evening with the program "On My Responsibility," aired on Sada Elbalad satellite channel and presented by media anchor Ahmed Mousa, Al-Kharbawi disclosed that the British intelligence aiding and abetting Muslim Brotherhood group. He pointed out that the Brotherhood used to have a radio station right from Britain demanding the overthrow of late President Gamal Abdel Nasser, noting that the British intelligence sought to change the police day which marked annually on 25 January by wiping out the narratives of Egypt's police heroism against the British. Al-Kharbawi continued: "At the behest of the British Intelligence, Muslim Brotherhood was pressuring former Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim to change the date of the police day celebration." A history lesson – It is important to know the origins of Police Day, which lie in a murderous attack by British forces on a police station in the canal city of Ismailia on 25 January 1952. Over 50 policemen were killed, sparking anti-British riots across the country; six months later Nasser led his Free Officers to revolution. This was the moment when Egypt's police force established itself as a heroic emblem of resistance against foreign occupation, and the words Al-shurta fi khidmat al-shaab, or "The police are at the service of the people" soon become emblazoned on every police station wall.
