One year after Mohammed Morsi became President of Egypt after a popular revolt against military control,
millions of Egyptians again protested, this time at Morsi’s autocratic Muslimist rule. They called for his resignation. The headquarters of Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood was gutted and burnt.
The European Union is pumping billions of euros into Egypt. Most of
the recent money has been given as a blank check — to President Morsi’s
government. What conclusions are democrats in Egypt to make of this
folly?
Has the European External Action Service (EEAS) heard of Pavlov’s
dog? You can train an animal by feeding for good or bad. If the dog is
bad and angry and you give it food out of fear, you reinforce its
nastiness to get you to give it more food.
Humans are more complicated and react to psychological stimulus too.
But what on earth is the logic behind the vast amounts of taxpayers’
money that European leaders feel they have the freedom to give to
corrupt and hostile states? The army has given Morsi’s government 48
hours to listen to the people. The EU imposes no conditions for EU tax
money freely given to those that the people call its new despots, the
Muslim Brotherhood.
The
Muslim Brotherhood, according to documents seized in a
US terrorist case,
calls for a global ‘Grand Jihad’ sabotaging Western civilization from
inside. The terrorist organization Hamas is a Muslim Brotherhood branch.
Its
constitution declares that its aim to kill all Jews.
Other activist organs are found throughout Africa, Asia, and the
Americas. In WW2 the Nazi extermination of Jews was fomented and
several
SS divisions of Muslims were raised through the Muslim Brotherhood co-founder,
Hajj al-Husseini. He later helped create the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) as a Muslim Brotherhood terrorist gang.
It is not only Morsi that the EU should be wary of. Egyptian leaders
from the Muslimist parties have been filmed saying in private that
America and Europe (which supply billions in aid) are their main
enemies! Egyptian politicians thought they were speaking in private with
President Morsi. Then Morsi shocked them all by saying the meeting was
in fact being broadcast by Egypt’s Channel 1 TV. (See it yourself
below).
The European taxpayers have been supplying Egypt with around
eight billion euros of aid and
loans
to help a transition to democracy and a more just society. This is
nearly equivalent to Cyprus bail-out sums. It is far beyond what the USA
supplies as mainly military aid. What is the tax-payer getting in
return? Who is in control of the funds?
The EU has lost its vision. The
European Community was not created by funding and bribing but by
creating a moral and ethical framework for peace. This did not cost billions. It was inexpensive. It was effective.
Robert Schuman’s vision started with the basis of
Human Rights based on
supranational law.
Under Morsi Egypt has not become a more tolerant society towards its 10 percent minority Coptic, its other Christians, its
Baha’is,
its non-religious communities and its few remaining Jews. EU money to
an intolerant despot makes Egypt become a more intolerant society.
Are the various Christians able to build churches and assemble in
peace? No. They are still forbidden from building, renovating or even
repairing places of worship. Christian girls are
forcibly islamized. Non-Muslim men are refused the right to marry whosoever they wish.
What is the West’s policy to intolerant Islamic countries and Sharia
law? Many EU governments subsidize mosques at home together with
recycled oil-funds from the Saudis and the
OPEC cartel. What principles of mutuality and democracy is the EU applying?
The
US Department of State reports that the Christians in Egypt include:
the Armenian Apostolic, Catholic (Armenian, Chaldean,
Greek, Melkite, Roman, and Syrian), Maronite, Orthodox (Greek and
Syrian), and Anglican/Episcopalian churches, which range in size from
several thousand to hundreds of thousands. A Protestant community,
established in the mid-19th century, includes the following churches:
Presbyterian, Baptist, Brethren, Open Brethren, Revival of Holiness
(Nahdat al-Qadaasa), Faith (Al-Eyman), Church of God, Christian Model
Church (Al-Mithaal Al-Masihi), Apostolic, Grace (An-Ni’ma),
Pentecostal, Apostolic Grace, Church of Christ, Gospel Missionary
(Al-Kiraaza bil Ingil), and the Message Church of Holland (Ar-Risaala).
There are also followers of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and Mormons (who meet in private homes).
Shia Muslims constituting less than 1 percent of the population
are killed.
Shiite leaders
blame the lynchings on the government. There are also small groups of
Quranists and Ahmadi Muslims. The once numerous Jewish community
numbers fewer than 70 persons, mostly senior citizens. There are 1,000
to 1,500 Jehovah’s Witnesses and 1,500 to 2,000 Bahais; however, the
government does not recognize these groups.
The US State Department says:
The government interprets Sharia as forbidding Muslims
from converting to another religion despite there being no statutory
prohibitions on conversion. This policy, along with the refusal of
local officials to recognize such conversions legally, constitutes a
prohibition in practice.
The EU Neighbourhood policy is supposedly based, not on military
assistance, but encouraging Human Rights and the Rule of Law. These, the
EEAS officials say repeatedly, are the foundation of EU foreign policy.
What are the facts?
The
European Court of Auditors said in
a recent report
that the European Union has not taken effective action to ensure
taxpayers money is used for the purpose it was so generously given by EU
leaders. That is to support European values. It has tried to trace one
billion euros of the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument,
ENPI. It failed. Taxpayers money is more likely to encourage the
opposite goals. Egypt has no audit trail at all for some four billion
euros.
The Court of Auditors blamed:
- Lack of budgetary transparency,
- an ineffective audit function and
- endemic corruption in Egypt.
It said there was little or no real dialogue on corruption, Human
Rights, torture and persecution. The main worries of the population were
simply not addressed.
Large sections of Egyptian society expressed strong
concerns about what they perceived to be a shift towards Sharia law,
restrictions on both the freedom of expression and women’s and
minorities’ rights, and the continued privileged role of the military.
The accountants saw the problems. The politicians shut their eyes.
Conditions were not imposed. The EEAS and Commission talked about ‘deep
democracy’ without seemingly being able to define it in relation to
Sharia law. The EEAS/Commission still talks about the Arab Spring
without seemingly taking into account that many suffering people
consider it to be a winter. The Auditors’ report said:
(a) the rights of minorities: sectarian violence has been increasing with Christians suffering the brunt of the violence.
Investigations into the violence have been sluggish or non-existent.
(b) the rights of women: while this was an area where some advances
were made over the last decade of the Mubarak regime, this progress is
at risk since the uprising.
The Court report concluded:
Overall the EEAS and Commission have not been able to effectively manage EU support to improve governance in Egypt.
If you pour money without accountancy controls into an already
corrupt society you will encourage corruption. Most of EU’s money goes
straight into the black hole of the national budget and is untraceable.
Is that what Europe’s poor who also contribute to this export largesse
of EU politicians expect?
The first responsibility of EU leaders dealing with taxpayers’ money
is to ask the taxpayers what they wish to do with the money the leaders
have collected. Secondly set up systems that have adequate controls to
analyze whether the funds are properly spent and thirdly have a thorough
review of the spending programmes to ensure they are effective and the
productive of tolerance, democracy, justice and the rule of law.
Has pouring money into Egypt made the Egyptian politicians more
sympathetic to the EU? The answer is the opposite. Many Islamists
believe that if the West gives money to a Muslim State, then it is in
fulfillment of Koranic obligation of the non-believer or
dhimmi. A
dhimmi
is a second class citizen, someone who refuses to adhere to Islam in a
Sharia law based State. He has to pay a tax, usually onerous, called
jizya (or jizia). It is not uncommon for clerics to say that US or European aid is confirmation of their
down-trodden status as dhimmis and the aid is jizia.
Such religious questions and ideologies should be a core policy
debate for the External Action Service. European experience shows that
tolerance can be reinforced by non-financial aid such as advice about
building a democratic governance system or ensuring joint ventures —
like the
European Coal and Steel Community — are undertaken. EU-Egyptian partnerships should be unambiguously based on openness, ethics and good accounting.
Law-based Convention of Human Rights including freedom of expression will also help fight ignorance in open debate.
The EEAS says that Human Rights are the basis for its policy. It should ensure that all aids conforms to the
Strasbourg Convention and not the
Sharia-based monstrosity of the Cairo Declaration that gives undefined human rights and powers only to those who submit to Islam and denies it to others including sectarians.
Hiraba
or local ‘justice’ involves violent lynchings of people, amputations
and crucifixions for those just suspected of crime, theft or robbery.
Why is the EEAS not leading a debate about values across the
Mediterranean? What about lynch mob justice in Egypt? What is its view
of Sharia law and
Hiraba (WARNING graphic images)?
And why has the EEAS not even got an analysis for European citizens,
the taxpayers, of Sharia law and its implications for Egypt and for
Europe? According to a
UN report, 99.3% of Egyptian women — yes
99.3 % — say they have experienced sexual harassment with sixty percent saying they have been touched inappropriately.
The European Commission declared 2013 to be the year of the Citizen.
Does this stop at the confines of the Berlaymont? Or should it include
the treatment of women and the concept of
dhimmis?
What sort of monitoring does the EEAS have of Egyptian, North
African media? Much of this is available in Arabic on YouTube but is
immediately dropped off YouTube when translated into English. Policy
for EU citizens cannot be founded on complacent illusions of an ignorant
leadership.
Do policy makers deal with reality? Many other Muslim leaders in
their various parties such as Morsi’s Freedom and Justice party, the
Nour party, the Reform and Development Party, the Islamic Labour Party
and Muslim Brotherhood consider the West as main enemies.
How can we be sure? President Morsi presided a meeting of the leaders
of these parties and scholars of Egypt’s main university Al Azhar. They
thought the meeting was secret.
Their views were open, frank and ignorant. They all seemed to agree
that USA and Israel (the only democratic State in the region) were their
main enemies in the world. Was Europe included as Egypt’s enemy? Maybe.
Perhaps like some Egyptians they all think that
Europe will become Islamic in ten years time. Others spout plans for the
reconquest of Europe.
What plans does the EEAS have that Egypt will be fully democratic in
ten years time? Does it explain to Egyptians how Europe created peace
and prosperity after two thousand years of constant warfare?
The
secret meeting that was broadcast on Channel 1 TV was about the dispute with Ethiopia over the
Nile Waters
agreement. The scholar from Al Azhar university maintained that America
and Israel must be behind Ethiopian desire for water and power. He
said that Ethiopians are diverting Nile water to Israel – by a
pipeline more than a thousand kilometers under the Red Sea. However
Israel is quite capable of producing vast amounts of water by its
present desalination plants. It has no use for such a stupid,
vulnerable, costly and totally unrealistic, crazy idea. A look at the
map and a superficial understanding of the hydrology of the Nile and its
two sources, the Blue Nile in Ethiopia and the White Nile in the Great
Lakes, would have shown anyone how ridiculous the idea was.
Yet without a free society and open debate, even Egyptian leaders
see plots everywhere while they refuse to deal with peace and justice
at home or abroad. They wanted to either destroy the Ethiopian dam, form
anti-Ethiopian regional alliances, intervene internal Ethiopian
politics or subvert it by disinformation.
Such international problems need to be resolved democratically. Water
agreements require implementation in peace with peaceful revisions
where necessary. In the absence of a supervisory power such as the
British had in 1923, that requires a common legal basis.
Any regional sharing of water must be based on similar principles of
honesty and human rights that lay at the base of Europe’s Coal and Steel
Community. That is why a Strasbourg style Convention of Human Rights
is necessary for all the Mediterranean and such regional agreements as
the Nile basin.
This
law-based Convention of Human Rights including freedom of expression will also help fight ignorance in open debate.
Thanks go to
MEMRI, Middle East Media Research Institute, a private organisation, and
others
which have translated this information from Arabic. They should get
financial support and help from the EEAS. Public awareness of where
their tax money is going requires adequate translation at least into
English for a proper dialogue of values.
