Dr. Mursi is like Dr. Assad

THE Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood is trying to cash in on public sympathy of Arabs with the victims of the heinous massacre committed by Bashar Assad’s regime in East Gouta in rural Damascus, when new pictures emerged of children and women who died of poison gas.
The Brotherhood in Egypt and its outside supporters really do not shy away from using everything to gain power — from distorting facts, raising slogans and flags of the Al-Qaeda, to appealing to Western powers. While calling for democracy and claiming its willingness to coexist with liberals, the Brotherhood is destroying the system that brought it to power. It also talks about taking care of followers of other religions, while restricting their freedoms and incinerating churches as its first targets!
And when pictures of victims of East Gouta in Syria begin to emerge, the Brotherhood twisted facts and claimed that victims of the current Egyptian regime are being meted out the same treatment as the victims of the Syrian regime!
However, there is a great difference between Syria’s innocent children and Khairat El-Shater’s group of savages. As there is a huge difference between chief of Egypt’s armed forces Gen. Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, who deposed President Muhammad Mursi, and Bashar Assad in Syria, who is resisting change.
In fact the differences are many. Assad is governing the majority in Syria while he represents a small minority of the population. While El-Sisi represents the majority of the Egyptian people that demonstrated their opinions in the popular “rebellion” campaign and took to the streets on June 13 in the biggest demonstration Egypt had seen in its entire history, demanding the ouster of the Brotherhood’s regime.
Unlike the Assad regime in Syria, the regime in Egypt today also represents the majority of Egyptian political forces, Nasserites, followers of the Wafd party, the youths, leftists, Salafists and liberals. While the Brotherhood only represented itself, it had been unable to win presidential elections, but for the support of the leftists and the youths who have turned against it today. In Syria, the Assad regime only represents himself and his cronies.
Also, the fascist Assad’s Baath Party is quite similar to the religious fascism of the Brotherhood and has nothing to do with the forces of the Syrian revolution.
Unlike Assad, who opened fire on peaceful protesters, the Egyptian Army protected the Brotherhood demonstrators for more than two years, until their demonstrations and sit-ins resorted to violence. The Brotherhood’s terror tactics — mobilization of arms, incitement to murder in Sinai, burning churches, cutting off roads, blockading military and security buildings — naturally called for use of force against violent protesters.
The Brotherhood under the leadership of the current extremists is a fascist religious group that does not intend to and will not accept working within a democratic system, contrary to what it claims to the West, and whatever promises it made during election time. If there is a proper comparison, it is that Dr. Muhammad Mursi, the deposed Muslim Brotherhood president, is more comparable in mindset and action to the current Syrian president. Both so-called doctors — one in dentistry and the other in engineering — represent a culture of inclusiveness and have a dark history.
Inside each and every one of them, Assad and Mursi. There is “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Both Assad and Mursi claim goodness and innocence, but within each of them is a deep desire for evil.
But there is no comparison between Assad and El-Sisi, who protected the Brotherhood for more than a year, and he had to deal with it toughly when the Egyptian street seethed in anger and threatened to confront the fascists.
The Brotherhood’s followers killed in Rabaa Al-Adawiya had fallen because of the leaders of the fascist Brotherhood organization who mobilized a crowd of their followers with their wives and children, making them human barriers in order to gain the world’s sympathy and winning local opinion against change.
The Brotherhood insisted on sit-ins in Rabaa Al-Adawiya for more than a month despite warnings. On the other hand most of the dead in Syria were children sleeping in their beds, when Assad’s troops bombarded them with Sarin gas.