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How the Egyptian regime managed to overcome MB's attempts to break its image?
Published in Albawaba on 03 - 05 - 2016

In the third and forth episodes of my series of articles, entitled "New reading of Egypt's national security issues", I discussed the plans adopted by Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and its international organization to restore the power. Some people blamed me for what they described as exaggeration in discussing the threats imposed by the terrorist group. They believe that the MB's threats have been removed or at least became influential, while such belief is not correct.
As I realize the composition of this group and its philosophy, I can say that the fire is still under the ashes. I attempt to inspect its thoughts and to monitor what it did to underline their future moves to avoid their threats.
So, it is important to return to the major stops in the confrontation between the Egyptian regime and Muslim Brotherhood to pave the way for finding the coming arenas of confrontations and to open the door for opening other important issues posing serious threats against Egypt's national security.
I signaled before to the attempts of the group to impose Arab and international siege on Egypt and how the Egyptian government managed to overcome these attempts in addition to their plans to overthrow the Egyptian government through forming a parallel parliament, under the name "Egyptian Revolutionary Council".
Here, I will discuss the tours conducted by the leaders of Muslim Brotherhood in Europe and America to incite the international community against the Egyptian regime. These tours have been monitored by a large number of analyses, while they ignored their implications and the implicit messages that they turned to send to the world deliberately.
The international organization of Muslim Brotherhood turned to rally its supporters in the foreign countries during the visits conducted by President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi to undermine their political and economic gains.
This is what happened during Sisi's visit to Germany in 2015, as a number of Islamist organizations, related to the banned group, turned to rally their followers in the streets to express their refusal to the visit of Egypt's president in coordination with Turkish officials and a number of members of German parliament.
These organizations issued a statement, signed also by a number of German MPs, to express their refusal to the visit. The statement came before the criticism of the speaker of German parliament against the Egyptian regime. These moves came after a session between the group's leaders, supported by $ 20-million economic aids from Qatar and Turkey to the Islamist organizations, and the German parliamentarians.
The group also coordinated with a number of its members and supporters to organize the protests in the German streets during the visit focusing on the area surrounding the president's residence in the German capital Berlin.
What happened in Germany in coincidence with the visit of Egypt's president was just an example. We leave it now to focus on the most two countries adopting hostile position towards Egypt, Qatar and Turkey.
The two countries opened their doors for the leaders of the group to live, work and open the channels in their territories. The Arab pressure forced Qatar to expel them from its land, while it has not suspended its millions of dollars support for the terrorist group. According to sources, the Qatari government provided the Muslim Brotherhood with $200-million annual support in return for activities against the Egyptian regime and President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi.
Turkey also supported the banned group but in different image. It provided the group with the diplomatic support to pave the way for suitable atmosphere helping them to break the image of the Egyptian regime before the world.
The group opened over 10 satellite channels from Turkey since June 30 Revolution and used a number of personalities, including Ayman Nour who was expelled from Lebanon to move them according to plans targeting the Egyptian government. It also used a number of artists from Egypt to incite against the Egyptian president and the security and military institutions.
From Turkey and Qatar to Sudan, the Muslim Brotherhood turned to the Sudanese President Omar Hassan Al Bashir to host the group's members suffering from security prosecutions in return for providing support to him before the international community and establishing investment projects in his country.
Bashir responded to the demands of the group and issued a presidential decree to ease the measures to allow the foreigners join the Sudanese universities. The Sudanese authorities have not prevented any Muslim Brotherhood's members from entering their territories and enjoy good treatment as citizens.
The Sudanese president described the members of the banned group as cousins, stressing the necessity of providing help to them to ease the pressure imposed by the Egyptian regime against them. This policy prompted the international organization of Muslim Brotherhood to open a number of projects in the fields of agriculture and livestock in Khartoum and other Sudanese cities.
The Sudanese president allowed the members of the group to join the governmental positions. He also responded to the group's pressures to support the Ethiopian side against Egypt regarding the controversial Renaissance Dam.
The group moves extended to Saudi Arabia. It attempted to take serious steps to improve its relations with the kingdom after the death of late King Abdullah Bin Abdel Aziz to achieve rapprochement with his successor King Salman.
The Saudi king did not take any actions against the group, while the situation changed after they refused to issue a statement condemning Iran, as the Saudi authorities expelled a delegation from the group led by Amr Darrag from the airport.
On the other hand, the starting point that the group took to undermine the Egyptian regime was the economic conference organized in the Egyptian resort Sharm Al Sheikh in March 2015. They used their public relations companies to provide false reports about the Egyptian economy and to break the country's image before the world.
The MB billionaire Yusuf Nada also contacted with a number of international companies that attended the conference urging them not to invest in Egypt warning them of the security situation. He used the demonstrations and terrorist attacks adopted by the group to convince them.
The group also contracted with huge companies of public relations to smear New Suez Canal Project using a number of channels, including Al Jazeera, to break the image of the project before the world and investors and in the same time to underline their achievements.
The group also used the same companies to confront the calls inside the U.S Congress to list the group as a terrorist organization. It contacted with a number of American companies of public relations to beautify the group's image before the American society and to underline their ideas based on non-violent approach since its establishment in 1928.
According to sources, the group allocated huge amounts of money to support the Islamist organizations working in London and Washington for organizing conferences and seminars aiming to improve the image of the group and to underline its previous positions against the terrorist groups, including ISIS and Qaeda.
The banned group has not completely succeeded to achieve its goals, as the Egyptian government performed a major role, whether through formal or public circles, to clarify the facts before the international community.
The Egyptian state convinced the world that the group turned to use the violence against not only the security and military institutions but also against the people. They refused to respond to the calls for ending the sit-ins organized in Rabaa and Nahda squares peacefully after the ousting of former Mohamed Morsi.
What the group did and is still doing reflect its insistence on breaking the image of the Egyptian regime before the world. When its efforts failed to achieve their goals, it turned to the internal arena, as it attempts to undermine the regime's popularity inside the country using its media platforms and electronic websites in addition to the social media networks. It uses these platforms to launch the rumors and publish the false reports aiming to destabilize the country.


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