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| Robert Fisk |
Mr. Robert Fisk wrote an article named “When is a military coup not a military coup? When it happens inEgypt, apparently” with all due respect to Mr. Fisk’s experience and point of view about middle east and politics and as a very beginner in the field of politics I hope it’s not offending to write this as an answer to the question.
I must state some facts about the situation in Egypt before I answer the question Mr. Fisk asked the right way.
After the Egyptian revolution
in 2011 the supreme council of armed forces in Egypt hold a firm grip over the
presidency chair in Egypt for almost a year and a half, during this time some
political and human right crimes were committed by the Egyptian army.
In June 2012 and after
elections a president came out to become the first democratic elected president
in Egypt, that president was Morsi a MB member that was the second choice of
his own people that was lucky enough to reach the second stage of the elections
against Shafiek the old regime prime minster.
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| Mubarak, Tantawi & Anan (SCAF), Shafiek, Bade' & Shater & Morsi(MB) |
After a year of Morsi
presidency’s era people decided that enough is enough, if you don’t know why
it’s because as Mr. Fisk said “He treated his Muslim Brotherhood mates as
masters rather than servants of the people, showed no interest in protecting
Egypt’s Christian minority, and then enraged the Egyptian army by attending a
Brotherhood meeting at which Egyptians were asked to join the holy war in Syria
to kill Shiites and overthrow Bashar al-Assad’s regime” and let me add to this
that during that year there was more than 20 protests at the failure government
that no one was able to find a reason for this government to stay other than it
has a role in fixing the upcoming parliamentary elections, also there was more
than one time when Morsi sent his supporters to beat the protesters, also the
economy of Egypt went down in a way that never happened before adding to that
he insisted on taking a loan from IMF which the majority of Egyptians refused
and didn't even know why that loan was necessary and where it is going to be spent, the most important thing
happened during this year was the gap between the society sects because of the
hate speech that was spreading through Morsi and his supporters, also For the
first time in Egypt’s history the Azhar-mosque and the Coptic Cathedral in
Egypt were attacked by his supporters.
Morsi GET OUT!
When Egyptians decide that
enough is enough they usually occupy the streets of Egypt in mass numbers to
bring the regime down, and that happened starting from June 30 after gathering
22 million signature to topple the regime, the numbers in the streets were
historic and massive in a way that never happened before in Egypt’s history, on
the other side the formal terrorists and supporters of Morsi was gathering in
the streets too, after a day of mass protests Morsi went out with a speech that
was only meant to ignite a civil war in Egypt.
After stating those facts
let’s ask what is the role of the army in any country? As far as I know is to
protect the country and defend it from out and inside threats if there were any.
Is there any more dangerous
threat to the country than civil war? I think not.
What the Egyptian army did
was to set an ultimatum that after 2 days if people’s demands were not met the
army is going to take actions to protect the country.
Mr. Fisk said it’s a coup,
why? Because the military disposed the elected president and took over the
country, well Mr. Fisk was right but still it is not a coup because when an
army dispose the reason of a civil war and protect the country and give the
presidency to the man that was chosen by the people not for his person but for
his position as the chef of the supreme constitutional court in Egypt you
simply can’t call it a coup you may call it an army that saved his country
otherwise you’d have seen another Syria blown away by terrorists and the only
loser in the equation is the people.
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| Millions in the streets |
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