MANY months ago when different extremist religious parties started showing a high profile in society and the different media, a state of shock and concern prevailed in the country at their extreme ideology and the harsh language they used while addressing their opposition from the civil revolutionary powers. At the time, I wrote in this corner disagreeing with attempts to silence these voices or exclude them from the political process. In my opinion, their lengthy work underground in secret organisations and cells enabled them to deceive naïve citizens and if they did not get them in their groups, at least gained public sympathy. This was reflected in the Islamists obtaining a majority in the first parliamentary elections organised shortly after the toppling of Mubarak's regime. However, following their trivial performance in parliament convinced the public of their inability and weakness in taking that significant role. Herein, the public showed no regret at seeing the Constitutional Court announce the dissolution of this parliament. Today, the majority of Egyptians, who are used to adopting moderate Islamic and Christian concepts, have real concern at extremist religious powers trying to monopolise the rule of the country, while sparing no effort marginalise other political powers. By so doing, they leave the scene clear to work on implementing their projected religious state. The first president taking rule following the revolution turning into to a dictator to force his vision on the society and ignore opposition stands for the sole goal of having his Freedom and Justice Party control the state's different authorities and institutions, is a depressing prospect. What deepens this sense of sadness and depression among the revolutionary powers is the Muslim Brotherhood's attempt to break all rules to reach this goal. It even reaches the level of rigging the voting process in the referendum on the constitution or accusing the opposition of being agents of some foreign powers or the remnants of Mubarak regime to oust the president. However, these attempts and manoeuvres have failed to convince the public to take their side or to rise against the civil opposition powers that were united in the so-called National Salvation Front. Instead, and to one's shock, some Muslim Brothers have started to raise their voice in objection to the group's attempts at electoral fraud and lies against national figures. Thus, more and more renegades emerged out of the Muslim Brotherhood, the last of whom was a young man called Islam el-Katatni, the cousin of the Freedom and Justice Party's President Saad el-Katatni. He justified this sudden step by being shocked at such manoeuvres and lies by the Muslim Brotherhood, which group he had followed once he got involved in politics and had joined on moral grounds. He and many others that had preceded him in this trend started propagating against the group and uncovering their lies and conspiracies against different powers devised to gain rule. Some even revealed the coalitions made by the group with some elements of the dissolved National Democratic Party to obtain some gains that reached the extent of accepting handing over the rule of Egypt to Gamal Mubarak, the toppled president's younger son. This deal was made in return for having some of the Muslim Brother leaders gain parliamentary seats in 2005 elections as the former Brotherhood leader Tharwat el-Kharabawi recently told Al-Watan newspaper. Prior to these former members leaving the group, Kamal el-Helbawi had announced his departure from the Muslim, Brotherhood, once they presented a candidate for the presidential election, breaking a previous promise not to do so. Herein, he announced to the people via a satellite TV channel his objection to the group getting into politics via such stratagems and at the expense of the good religious morals the group continued to promote for many decades. Apart from citizens that showing support for the group and whatever decisions they are taking to enforce their project, one found a woman that was allowed to monitor the voting process in the first round of the referendum. She expressed fierce opposition in seeing the people in charge at the voting commission commit fraud, which that she regarded as going against Islamic principles and morals. That is the greatest gain that society is benefiting from in the high profile and image these extremist groups have had in society, that is in revealing their actual nature in front of all the people, including their own followers. This would eventually lead to these movements returning to the moderate path or suffer dissolution from within.
