Egypt has returned from the heart of darkness, after the tampering of dilapidated minds, diseased hearts and egos gone astray. Egypt has come back radiant and gorgeous, parades as usual echoing hymns of wisdom, regaining cries of truth and folding the lapses of the obnoxious past. The pearl of human history has re-emerged resplendid, declaring itself ready to face future challenges. Egypt stands tall, having rejected falsehood and superstition and toppled the nonsense that encircled her. All the events the Egyptian scene has witnessed in the past year announced the inevitable end of a group that had been groping in the dark for more than eight decades, hoping to gain power; and even worse, without being aware of the meaning of terms like the state, the people, the land, protest, negotiation, legitimacy, strategy, patriotism, popular revolutions, history, geography and civilisation. The group's mind is occupied with terms like partisanship, sectarianism, clan, religious guardianship, obedience to men who claim holiness, virtue, infallibility, racism, honour, elevated rank and purity. Muslim Brotherhood rule treated Egypt not as a civilised entity, but as a feast or booty not to be shared with anyone except those who practice religious ministry, who are committed to intellectual sterility and political hypocrisy, raised in the vestibules of secrecy, and accepting of all methods and patterns of violence, giving warnings before promises as if they were tempting to the people. The regime reaped only sorrow in its attempted subjection of the homeland, which will not be forgiven by the people or erased from history's memory. Second, the Brotherhood regime gave to the West a dangerous sense that Egypt has become an easy catch, allowing the country's adversaries to tighten their grip on its immortal soul. Egypt under the Brotherhood regime no longer sided among lax states or even failed states, moving rapidly to the stage of non-state. Random became logic and theory; adapting faith became a vindicatory style amid an ideology of repression. Society split into two factions: people of peace and people of war, the latter resorting to terrorising, intimidation, subjugation and even humiliation. In its final last words, the regime did nothing but repeat the word “legitimacy” — more than a hundred times. And of course it meant specifically the legitimacy of the regime or the head of the state. This was blatant provocative negligence of revolutionary legitimacy or the legitimacy of the people gathered in the squares of Egypt. It was also an attempt to lay the roots of violence, mobilising the “clan” and “family” on the basis of insistence. What kind of legitimacy is this? It's the legitimacy of words, not the legitimacy of action and change. But people believe in substance not chance, in core not crust, in deep meaning not sparkling verbal emptiness. He who carries true legitimacy does not need to emphasise its existence. In all cases, how can a regime forget that the legitimacy of the people creates the legitimacy of the ruler — or takes it away? How can a regime deny the legitimacy of action and cling to the legitimacy of a vacuum? How can a regime trivialise the importance of time and not realise that what was once legitimate has lost all political, constitutional, legal or ideological cover? How could a regime imagine that the idea of legitimacy could protect it from the anger of the people, or the revolution of the hungry, or a blow from outside? And since when was legitimacy eternal? Would that regime ever have fathomed that the legitimacy of it and its group, rather the legitimacy of its existence, had gone? The existence of a defective regime is no good to anyone. On the contrary, its presence is an obstacle to something better. Democratic practice that guarantees the right choice will teach the Egyptians in the near future — in my opinion — the criteria for choosing the right thing, and that the past year, which was a heavy price for a democratic experience, has pushed Egypt many decades backwardly. So Egyptians repented and regretted recommending and upholding the various religious groups with their multiple orientations. Egyptians have realised that religion is one thing and those who claim to represent it are very different, and these may be contradictory to a large extent. Therefore, this was a double shock for Egyptians and made them swear to ensure that their homeland is free from all evils.
