Egypt is stronger than terrorism We remain firm in our belief that Egypt will triumph in its war against terrorism. This conviction will not be shaken even as we grieve over the deaths of dozens of our soldiers in a cowardly and treacherous suicide bombing of a checkpoint in North Sinai Friday evening. However, we must also point out that if we are to minimise the costs of victory, the Egyptian people must grasp the following: Egypt is in a state of war and the enemy is all fascist takfiri, racist and terrorist forces, at the centre of which lies the Muslim Brotherhood. At the same time, strengthening the 30 June front, which is a chief condition to ensure definitive victory, can only be achieved by activating the provisions of the new constitution and building the citizen's state ruled by law. Bearing the foregoing in mind, it is important to stress a number of points: — A state of war is obvious in the case of a foreign aggression. In this context, the eternal words of the pharaoh and military commander Senusert III (who ruled from 1887-1849 BC) ring as true as ever. Engraved on a stele in Halfa at the Egyptian border with Sudan, they say: “I am not the man who is content to remain idle when attacked. The man who chooses to be meek after being attacked strengthens the heart of the enemy. While he who retreats when at the border is truly cowardly. Every child I bear who protects this border will be my son whom I acknowledge as my posterity. As for the child who abandons it and does not fight to defend its safety, he is not my son and not my progeny. I have commanded a statue to be erected at this border so that you will fight to protect it.” The stele concludes with the proclamation: “The Egyptians chanted, ‘How great is the joy/triumph of your territory now that its borders have been fixed!'” — Egypt is facing a war forced upon it by terrorist organisations that have recruited murderers, regardless of how they have been misled or duped into fighting. In order to save Egypt as a nation, a state, a people and an identity it is necessary to defeat all fascist takfiri and racist terrorist forces which, in turn, entails fending off the pressures of international powers and their regional instruments that seek to dismantle Egypt and force it to its knees, one of the means to which end is to use a democratic smokescreen in order to rescue the Muslim Brotherhood, the breeder of terrorism. The current battle requires that arms be met with arms, violence with violence and imposing the harshest penalties on all leaders of takfiri bigotry and incitement to hatred and all who arm and fund terrorism. It is also necessary to abandon the smokescreen of “reconciliation” which only emboldens terrorism and weakens the resolve of the nation. In addition the ban on the Muslim Brotherhood and religious political parties, there should be a law that politically bans all those found guilty of violence, destruction and terrorism while keeping the door to political assimilation open to all who renounce violence and takfiri thought. — The Egyptian people determined their victorious outcome in this war with their revolution of 30 June that overthrew Muslim Brotherhood rule and its theocratic project, at which point the Muslim Brothers and their allies acted on their threat to make Egypt burn if they are not allowed to rule. The decision to break up the sit-ins at Rabaa Al-Adawiya and Al-Nahda, in which participants were armed and violent, was a correct one. Arms and violence can only be met with the same. The Muslim Brotherhood and its fascist, discriminatory and terrorist allies forced a war on the Egyptian nation that will not be resolved until they and their terrorist ways are defeated. There is no room for the Muslim Brotherhood in a democratic state in which all citizens are presumed equal. As for social reconciliation after the dissolution of the organisation and in the framework of respect for the constitution, it is a duty that is achievable with all who renounce that organisation and who are not guilty of any crime, as was the case with the Nazis in Germany after World War II and white supremacists in South Africa after the fall of apartheid. — There is not a country in the world that can keep a suicidal terrorist from committing his crime. This applies even to great powers such as the US and Russia. In Egypt, the opportunities for terrorism steadily increased as the ranks of the Muslim Brothers and their allies swelled due to how they were indulged and used by successive regimes. In the Sadat era they were released from the prisons to which Nasser had confined them and given free rein to assault leftists and Nasserists. In the Mubarak era, they were granted increasing manoeuvrability and political sway so the regime could use them to divert attention away from its failures, intimidate the secularist opposition and ward off Western pressures. With their empowerment following the 25 January Revolution, the Muslim Brothers opened Egypt's doors to terrorists of every stripe from around the world. Still, as events have shown, no rogue group can defeat an aware people and the Egyptian people were not deceived by the Muslim Brotherhood's denials of all terrorist crimes it committed, encouraged and justified. Trembling cowards and greedy opportunists need to appreciate that there can be no reconciliation with a terrorist group and that the terrorist invaders meet their end in Egypt, the graveyard of invaders. — The Egyptian nation will not press forward to undertaking the tasks of tomorrow, as required by changes in international positions, before accomplishing the urgent task of saving Egypt today. In international battles of will, nations themselves determine their position: whether prostrate or standing tall and proud. With the 30 June Revolution, Egypt chose to let its own will triumph. In so doing, it weakened foreign support for the domestic enemy. US President Obama ultimately had no choice but to declare in the UN that deposed president Mohamed Morsi did not have the ability to be a president of all Egyptians and that the interim government had responded to the demands of millions of Egyptians by ending Muslim Brotherhood rule, after which Obama announced that he looked forward to his next meeting with President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi. — The reinvigoration of the 30 June revolutionary alliance is an indispensable condition for the defeat of terrorism and the march to the future. As we have said on numerous occasions, if 30 June 2013 was not a revolution then the same would apply to 25 January 2011. Just as 25 January had been triggered by corrupt, incompetent and tyrannical rule, the 30 June Revolution erupted against another form of tyranny, the forces of a fascist takfiri discriminatory rule, which was also corrupt and working on behalf of outside powers. By the same token, if reconstruction of the state had been the pledge of the 25 January Revolution, saving the very existence of the state was the mission of the 30 June Revolution. In securing the victory of this mission, Al-Sisi played a unique and decisive role, but the fact remains that both revolutions were grassroots revolutions made by the Egyptian people. If the Muslim Brothers hijacked the first revolution and then failed, anyone contemplating hijacking the June Revolution will meet the same fate. The Egyptian people will not let themselves be ruled in the ways that ignited their two revolutions. They will not allow the conditions that generated their revolutions to continue. The people will win their right to bread, freedom, social justice, human dignity, national sovereignty and a new system of government that embodies the spirit and principles of the modern citizen's state.
