Tuesday, November 05, 2013

Why the Muslim Brotherhood will survive

To the credit of the movement, its leaders and even its members always handle pressure, incarceration, and even torture very well. They don't break easily.  The fact that the Sisi regime did not air live footage of Morsi is an indication that they are sacred of his ability to inspire.  People will even compare the visage of Morsi in comparison with the visage of Mubarak and his two lousy sons.  Arab Communist leaders have handled similar situations rather cowardly.  Iraqi communist leader, Ibrahim Kubbah, began his testimonials on Iraqi TV in March 1963 by saying that he will "only focus on the treasonous stances of the communist part" (see the collections of confessions and testimonials in the book: Al-Kitab Al-Aswad: I`tirafat Ash-Shuyu`iyyin, 1963, p. 32).  The brave and firm manner in which Syrian Social National Party leader, Antun Sa`adah, handled his own execution inspired members and leaders of the party for decades to come.  It went on as an example of a courageous leader and served the party greatly.  It took Michel `Aflaq minutes or maybe an hour after he was submerged in a barrel of feces by the Husni Za`im regime to issue that humiliating statement that stigmatized Ba`thist history for decades to come.  You may say that Saddam handled his execution bravely: that maybe true but it was too late because the criminality of the Ba`th could not be erased with that stance. It was, for Saddam and for the Ba`th, too little too late.