Muslim Brotherhood and malicious attempts to tarnish Egypt's int'l relations  

By Mahmoud Basiony, head of the Arabic Network for Digital Media and Human Rights 

The most serious issue facing human rights in Egypt is the insistence of some members of the terrorist-designated Muslim Brotherhood group to use human rights as a pretext to put pressure on the Egyptian government, which faces grave danger due to the involvement of such group in committing criminal activities inside Egypt.

The Egyptian security bodies are also bearing considerable burdens in pursuing those MB members and often arresting a number of suspects as a preemptive measure before they commit any terrorist crimes.

The government's great efforts aim to protect the civilians and ensure their right in enjoying a safe life.

The MB group, through its international arms began to intensify its moves in the United States using a young man called Mohammad Sultan, son of the Brotherhood leader Salah Sultan, who had given up his Egyptian nationality and went to the US with the aim of driving a wedge between the Egyptian and the new US administration by raising the issue of "human rights" through revealing unverified and false information.

He alleged that some members of his family were arrested without guilt, but this issue, if it is true, touches upon the essence of the work of the independent Egyptian judiciary and no country, under the United Nations Charter and the rules of international humanitarian law is entitled to exert any pressure on it.

The MB-affiliated member Mohammad Soltan is supported by the Qatari media and politicized human rights organizations that publish inaccurate reports on the human rights situation in Egypt.

 

He also makes contacts with Senators in the US Congress, such as Tom Malinowski, who has anti-Egypt positions for years, without a clear reason for this kind of hostility.

 

Soltan's false allegations, regarding human rights coincided with the US government's decision to approve the sale of military equipment to Egypt in order to prompt the US to withdraw its approval and suspend the arms deal.

We have reason to believe that Soltan’s goal is not to defend human rights as he claims, but rather to weaken the Egyptian state’s ability to fight terrorism. 

 

The Brotherhood’s manipulation of the human rights issue is an attempt to use it as a pretext to destroy the strong political alliances between Egypt and the United States, and hinder any progress in the process of spreading the culture of human rights, especially since there is a major breakthrough in Egypt following the issuance of the new NGO regulation, which confirms the Egyptian government's openness to dealing with local and international civil society organizations.