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From history to the present
Ten years from June 30th
Feather and pen
Hossam Badrawi
I believe that what is not documented does not exist, and I like from time to time to go back to what I recorded in my papers, about
My positions are in moments of history so that I do not forget how my mind was thinking at the time of the historical snapshot, because with the passage of time and the succession of events, and the emergence of new facts, the opinion may change, and we do not know that it changed except by reading what a person recorded, with his pen to himself, at the time of the event.
I also found that a person gets used to, adapts, and finds himself sometimes accepting what he was enthusiastic about rejecting, and he may remind himself of the obligation to express his free opinion if the situations are similar despite the change of the director, the scenario, and the actors, out of respect for his principles and convictions.
Days before Mohamed Morsi, the Brotherhood’s candidate, won the presidential elections, the Supreme Constitutional Court ruled to dissolve the People’s Assembly – which has a religious majority – due to the invalidity of articles in the electoral law, and ruled that a number of articles in the legislative elections law were unconstitutional.
A few days after his victory, specifically on July 8, 2012, he issued his first Republican Decree No. 11 of 2012 to restore the People’s Assembly, which was dissolved by the ruling of the Supreme Constitutional Court. To exercise its powers and withdraw its dissolution decision.
She described the decision at the time:
“Wasting the Constitutional Court’s ruling on the illegality of the existence of the People’s Assembly will make every subsequent decision of the parliament illegitimate and represent the lack of respect of the executive authority for other authorities, which caused the waste of democracy in Egypt in the past. We are returning to the incursion of the executive authority over other authorities, which will be the seed of Dictatorship in any political system, it is an insistence and a threat to all civil forces in Egypt that we are on the way to a new era of dictatorship.
After this decision, Mohamed Morsi issued a constitutional declaration on November 22, 2012, most notably:
“The constitutional declarations, laws and decisions issued by the President of the Republic since his assumption of power until the constitution comes into force and the election of a new People’s Assembly are final and enforceable by themselves and cannot be challenged in any way or before any party. judicial authority.
At the time, I issued a statement in which I considered the constitutional declaration issued by Morsi alone as “an execution of democracy, and an unprecedented dictatorial course in the history of Egypt.” I said: “The president does not like to be overwhelmed by the ecstasy of power or the narrow-mindedness of those whom he consults. I have seen this scene before and experienced its results. Oh God.” I have reached, O God, so bear witness.”
In another statement, I made clear my rejection of the constitutional declaration, in which it said:
There are restrictions on the executive authority in the period of detention of a citizen on suspicion, the intervention of the judiciary in a specific period, and the right of the citizen to a fair trial, and all of these matters become in the news of the issuance of this constitutional declaration declaring a state of emergency without announcing it or its guarantees….
Then she declared, “Preventing the judges of the Constitutional Court from holding its session will be remembered by history as a disgrace against freedom and democracy, which do not exist without the fortress of justice and the law. Freedom cannot grow and flourish without respect for the institution of justice and the application of the law. The law is selective for whoever it wants and when it wants, so there is no freedom, no dignity, and no security.”
These are some of my tweets documented at this time, recording what I thought and saw at the moment of its occurrence:
December 2012
The real challenge to the politicization of religion is a cultural challenge in which the Egyptian people emerge victorious, open to pluralism, and believe in citizenship more than we imagined.
The majority has the legitimacy of the ballot box, but it is legitimacy conditioned on accountability from the people, their institutions, their media, the rule of law and the constitution, so the president swears on that.. .
January 2013
After the revolution, Egypt does not deserve a new dictatorial rule under the umbrella of religion, nor a constitution that divides, excludes, and wastes rights, nor chaos and collapse of the pillars of the state.
Democracy without freedom and respect for the separation and balance of powers is a use of the ballot box to consolidate dictatorship.
February 2013 . . . .
O Lord, help me to continue speaking the word of truth in order to win myself, and not to say falsehood, so I lose it and gain the weak, and that my mind expands to comprehend, and that my soul elevates to love and not to hate.
April 2013
Freedom cannot grow and flourish without respect for the institution of justice and the application of the law.
The president’s real responsibility is to contain his opponents before allying himself with his supporters…
It is not possible to rule a nation that seeks discord and division and focuses on revenge and violence. Take wisdom and experience from Gandhi and Mandela, Muslims as a deed, not as a religion.
The difference comes when a team imposes its vision on others and cancels their vision as partners.
Democracy is not only a ballot box, but also includes the pressures that preceded that on citizens to influence their orientations, and the consequent respect for the law and the balance of powers.
June 1st
After the revolution, Egypt does not deserve a new dictatorial rule under the umbrella of religion, nor a constitution that divides, excludes, and wastes rights, nor does it deserve chaos and collapse of the pillars of the state.
It is not the strong who always win the battle, it is the weak who always lose peace and harmony.
June 13th
Letter to Whom It May Concern: Those who do not learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it.
Insisting on the stubbornness of the people is political suicide, the scene of which I have seen before.
June 16th
Changing the political reality without an alternative project and without an effective popular organization is a way either to military rule again or to chaos leading to a new dictatorship. The lesson is clear.
The alternatives are limited, and the duty of the armed forces is to protect the choice of the people, respect the rights of minorities among them, and prevent those who come to power from encroaching on other authorities.
June 25th
A power that does not respect its opponents loses everything in the end. .
What happened in Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Sudan, which lasted for years, was aborted by the great Egyptian people in one year, with the depth of its history and civilization.
June 28th
Egypt proves today once again that it is bigger, deeper and more ancient than any individual or group.
June 30
What the Egyptian people are doing in the fields of liberation and the fields of Egypt today is unprecedented for a great people writing a new history.
If any president rules by the same standards as the current authority, this will be the reaction of the people; Because his presence becomes the greatest threat to the survival of the state, not just the stability of society.
July 1…
The Brotherhood will not be able to ride on this revolution, as it is against them, against extremism, and against exclusion. .
The lesson that the Egyptian people give to everyone is about to end, and thanks to the Brotherhood for uniting the people together with the army and police once again.
A dictator is a ruler whose aides believe that he has the confidence of the nation and the support of public opinion, even minutes before his fall.
July 2
Morsi’s speech is unreasonable, threatening and threatening, and giving people a choice between the Brotherhood staying in power or shedding their blood. I think it is a speech that ends the myth of the Brotherhood forever.
As a doctor, I see that the Brotherhood has transformed, with the president’s unprecedented speech announcing bloodshed for those who oppose them, from a chronic disease that can be treated and dealt with, into a malignant tumor that must be eradicated.
O black news, I have never seen in my life such a threat from an official to his people outside the scope of reason and logic, the issue needs a mental hospital.
They asked me who moved the masses, and I said the will of a people who possess the genes of civilization, with a collective conscience that utters fanaticism and incompetence, and a free media that deserves respect.
It is not possible, with narrow mindedness or unilateralism, to occupy the thought of Egyptian society, nor to force it to a quality of life that it does not satisfy, and this is what the Egyptian people are revolting against.
The Egyptian people have a multi-identity, but they are united in the love of the country, they are religious in the nature of Islam and Christianity, but they are open-minded to the world that an occupier cannot accommodate.
What the Egyptian people are doing is directed at the Brotherhood, rejecting incompetence, exclusion, lies, threats, intimidation, narrow-mindedness, and insulting Islam with what they say and do.
July 3
Congratulations on lifting the grief and removing the curse, and for the return of a bright, promising and happy Egypt with the greatness of its people, God willing.
This is a revolution of the people and the state, as all official state institutions supported the unprecedented popular will in history.
On the morning of a bright day in Egypt, after the removal of the gloom and the removal of the curse, I feel the happiness that I hope will overwhelm everyone, and I will breathe freedom from the occupation of thought and conscience.
I am writing this ten years after June 30, 2013, and I remind myself of what was decided in my sentiments, the events of that moment, and Albert Einstein’s famous saying that if we do the same thing over and over again, it becomes foolish to expect different results.
