There are too many signs that Morsi is leading Egypt to a disaster. Each one of these signs on its own may not make you conclude that the disaster is coming soon but these signs in total can convince anyone that the disaster is coming sooner than later. The list of signs is long but here is a sample. One recent sign is Morsi's recent appointment of his spokesperson Dr. Yasser Ali as the head of the IT and Information Centre of the Cabinet. This is a technical centre and its mission is to serve the PM office and his cabinet by providing statistics and information on any topic upon request. During the centre's long history its head was always chosen from among Egypt's top experts in IT, statistics or related topics. It is not a political position. It never was. But Ali is a dermatologist and his only qualification for the post is that he is a member of Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood. The appointment is like filling the post of the pilot of a country's Air Force One with a person who is not a pilot. Moreover, Morsi's office was proud of the appointment and issued “a congratulatory note" to Ali. Another sign is Dr. Abdul Mein'm Abul Fotoh's recent statement published by Al Masry Alyoom, a respected independent daily, that Morsi is still “closely working with the Muslim Brotherhood" although when he was elected president seven months ago Morsi declared he resigned his post as a president of the MB's political arm; the Freedom and Justice Party and he was no longer affiliated with the MB itself. Before running in the presidential race Abul Fotoh had resigned his leadership position in the MB a year ago, because at the time the MB was against any of its members running for Egypt's top job. Abul Fotoh was also one of the country top political opposition leaders who were recently invited to have “a dialogue" with the president to find a common ground to resolve the country political impasse. But Abul Fotoh stopped attending such meetings saying they were “useless". Another sign is the recent announcement by the Interior Minister, who was newly appointed by Morsi, that he will arm the country's police force with 100,000 automatic machine guns after Islamists asked Morsi to use “iron fist" to stop the opposition from protesting. This step followed the killing of some 100 protesters and injuring 1000s during Morsi's first seven month in office. One more sign is Morsi government's promise to build 42 new cities in 4 years and 60 new universities in 10 years. Both promises are lies as they are totally unrealistic. Morsi building one new city every 35 days and building a new university every two months are both impossible. Since the January 25 revolution Egypt had four governments over the last two years. Using any yard stick to measure government performance, the current Morsi's government is the worst. But Morsi's office declared last week that the current government's performance is “good" and refused the opposition's calls, including none-MB Islamists' for Morsi to form a national coalition government. Another sign is the lack of a national plan for achieving economical development and social justice, either for the short or the long term. This in spite of the facts that the Egyptian pound is losing ground against the American dollar and the resulting high inflation in addition to the total collapse of the tourism winter November-February session resulting in some 10% occupancy rates in most hotels. One more sign is Morsi's disappearance from addressing the public on any issue since his disastrous TV address when he declared emergency law and imposed curfew on the three cities of the Suez Canal zone and at the same time threatening Egyptians that he will take “tougher measures" to end the protests. Morsi did not even notice that the citizens of the three cities have ignored immediately his curfew and went to the streets every night during the curfew hours. And he ignored the fact that both the police and the army have also ignored his declaration of the emergency law in the three cities. In addition, members of the police force and the army unites in all the three cities went to the streets not to arrest but to cheer the protesters and to play soccer with them. Now the city of Port Said has declared civil disobedience �" but Morsi is not to be found. Another sign is related to media. Morsi is not happy with a hand full of independent TV channels that carry the protestors' message and their Talk Shows criticize Morsi and his government. These in contrast to the MB-owned newspaper and TV channel, all the Islamist TV channels, all the state owned-newspapers and all the state-owned radio and TV channels which all praise Morsi and criticize the opposition day and night. Even the Arab television broadcaster Al-Jazeera which was widely respected for providing an independent voice from the Middle East has recently become a propaganda broadcaster for Egypt's MB. Al-Jazeera old motto of presenting “both views and opposing views" has gone out of the window and has stopped hosting any of Egypt's political opposition leaders or covering the protests or voicing their views, as it did during the first few weeks following January 25th, 2011. The last but not least on my list of signs is the recent statement by the Islamist party Noor which accuses Morsi of favoritism and corruption by appointing MB members in administrative government leadership jobs in his office, in the central government and in most of the country's governesses. Instead of trying to stop Morsi from leading the country into a disaster, the Muslim Brotherhood smears and blames the opposition and appeals to Egyptians to “give Morsi a chance" - - the irony here is this: To give Morsi a chance to do what exactly? Prof Mohamed Elmasry, FIEEE, FRSC, FCAE, FEIC Prof Emeritus of Computer Engineering, Univ of Waterloo http://www.eic-ici.ca/english/tour/cit08/Elmasry.pdf Member, Editorial Board, The Canadian Charger Among the 500 Most Influential Muslims in The World http://www.thecanadiancharger.com/page.php?id=5&a=238
