I am trying to
know when, how and where this one called Yasser Hussien Mahmoud Burhami Hashish
has managed to blackmail the interior ministry, government, regime and
state?... as what he says in public requires accountability and punishment if
we have a constitution to respect and a law to enforce in this country.
I do not think
the currently ruling regime is in need of a cover claiming to be religious that
can work instead of the general moral one coming from the values of citizenship
and the Egyptian cultural and civilization system that goes back in time to the
dawn of history… starting from ancient Egypt since the first dynasty… to the
Hellenistic era… Christian era… then Islamic era… and finally to the modern and
contemporary era… as some political regimes need a cover claiming to represent the
religious reference since they adopt a negative stance towards values of
citizenship and cultural civilization systems at large.
And so, I do
seriously wonder, when, how and where has this Burahmi; deputy of the salafist Dawaa,
managed to blackmail the state institutions to the degree that enabled him
recently to give sermons in mosques for a reason I believe is funny… that is he
passed the exam set by the ministry of endowments… I do not know if this exam included
a question asking: what is your opinion of those who give judgments of
criminality, assault, injustice and atheism over an Egyptian citizen or an
Egyptian group without a juridical verdict?... does anyone who considers
himself a preacher to the way of God have the right to give such judgments on
the Christian Egyptian citizens?
All entities in
charge have already known what any Egyptian citizen following what is published
and broadcasted over the internet knew, when Burhami was asked about how the
Muslim husband should treat his Christian wife… his answer was extremely evil
and vicious.
Neither Al-Azhar
nor the ministry of endowments replied to what he said… not even the public
prosecution or the ministry of interior… only people like me reacted and
replied to what he said and it looked like a verbal fight with a man inciting
on hatred, contempt, loathing, destroying family relations and disagreement to
everything that is human and respectful.
The same thing
happens again… not from Burhami alone… but from another one belonging to the
same salafist specimen named Yahia Refa’i Sorour who said in public about the
Egyptian citizens martyred by slaughter in Libya: “they are sheep… 21 Christian
sheep whose blood is cheap because we – the pronoun relates to him – do not
have a citizenship contract with them… and we feel offended that Copts stayed
safe in Egypt after the coup”.
As to Yasser
Burhami, he said in pubic in a video recording that the Egyptian Christian
citizens: “they are an atheist unjust assaulting criminal minority that
assaults the right of the majority… we call our brother Christians atheist…
yes, they are our brothers in the country… but they are atheist if they kept
believing in their religion and they shall go to hell..”… then he describes
anyone who disagrees to what he says as “they are people of hypocrisy and
atheism”… meaning that all people and entities that disagree to Yasser Hussien
Mahmoud Burhami Hashish are hypocrite atheists!
This Yasser
Burhami and leaders of the salafist Dawaa like Muhammed Ismail
al-Mokaddem, Muhammed Abdel-Fattah Abo-Idris, Abdel-Mone’am ash-Shahat and
others are the occupying the forefront of the religious Dawaa scene… and
they have a political party that seeks representation in the parliament and
which may have the first, second or third majority in the coming elected
parliament.
I have searched
quickly about the root of the phenomenon of the salafist Dawaa in
Alexandria… and I have been through some parts of references and knew that they
all are influenced and even basically committed to opinions of Ibn Taymmiya,
Ibn al-Qayem, Muhammed ibn Abdel-Wahhab and al-Albani.
I have already
discussed in this very space of Al Ahram newspaper some Fatwas of Ibn
Taymmiya towards Christians in specific and others in general… in such Fatwas,
there is a lot of evil and injustice towards Islam and humanity…I also try to
know more about the opinions and Fatwas of al-Albani because I have not
argued with anyone of those like Burhami and al-Albani unless he says: “al-Albani
said…”… as if this al-Albani is their first and last reference… his full name
is Muhammed Ibn al-Hajj Nouh Ibn Nagati Ibn Adam al-Ashqoudri al-Albani
al-Arna’outi or the Arnaut nicknamed as “Abu Abdel-Rahman”. He was born in 1914
in Ashqoudra; the old capital of Albania and died in 1999. His father left
Albania while he was one of the biggest scholars of Hanafi Mazhab or
doctrine. His father immigrated to Damascus along with his son. The reason
behind his immigration was that he disagreed to the King of Albania Ahmed Zogho
after the latter prohibited women from wearing Niqab!
Dear reader… you
can go through the books of al-Albani and Burhami Hashish… and along with them
the chief of the Alexandrian salafist Dawaa; Muhammed Abdel-Fattah Abu
Idris… in general, you will find that these books are nothing but annotations
explaining the Mutoons[1]
of Ibn Hanbal, Ibn Taymmiya and Muhammed Abdel-Wahhab.
One cannot have
discussions based on logic and comprehensive aware Fiqhi and scientific
evidence with such people… a wise man cannot waste his time arguing with those
who have no human feelings in dealing with people and guiding them with wise
and kind words.
The only possible
thing to do is that state institutions, governed by the constitution and law,
shall react to such outrageous behaviour… especially that we are in a very
critical situation as we are fighting on five fronts; east, west, north, south
and in the heart of our country… the state institutions shall stop these people
and punish them as per the law for what they do against the nation and
citizens.
Here I ask the
minister of endowments and I know he is a man who knows his role and can do
anything to keep Egypt’s mosques away from fanaticism and ignorance… how could
Burhami and his likes who adopt such declared opinion of describing the
Christians as atheists and considering them as an infidel wrongful aggressive
criminal minority who should go to hell… how could they manage to deliver
sermons in mosques?
Not only this…
moreover, they consider all who disagree to the salafists’ opinion about
Christians an atheist wrongful… meaning all of us starting from the president
to the very common citizen like me… for God sake, how do the lawyers and public
prosecution not do something to stop such crime and prosecute those people in
public?
How can we stay
silent and stand still before those who provide the complete theoretical
referencing for what Daesh and its likes do… since the completion of what
Burhami and his likes say is the question asking: “now what should we do with
those who are atheist, aggressive, criminal and wrongful… and also those
hypocrite atheists who disagree to us?”
Won’t the answer
be what Daesh does in reality of burning people alive and slaughtering humans?
Translated into
English by: Dalia Elnaggar
This article was
published in Al Ahram newspaper on February 26, 2015.
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original article, go to:
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[1] Mutoon: (Arabic: متون) the Arabic plural word for muton (متن) which is the text containing the main idea.
