Is It Hiding Real Size Or Fearing Openness to Society?

The Muslim Brotherhood (MB) group is currently passing a critical period in its history and struggle to attains its targets.

 

It is well known that the group managed to defuse many domestic and foreign crises that faced it in its path seeking political and public openness to society.

 

And it has been declaring everywhere that the stage is entitled “openness”, in the full meaning of the word, facing ensuing opportunities or threat is! and at all levels .

 

Belief in Society, Rejecting idea of Revolutionary Leadership

 

One of the most dominating tenets in this context that the Muslim Brotherhood regards the society as a strong movement that needs to be dealt with on the basis of guidance not leadership, a mutual exchange of effect and being affected, not exercising pressures on it .

 

This has actually sidelined the idea of having a sacrificing revolutionary leadership that should inherit the land and rule it with Sharia and order people to follow it.

 

This conviction has developed and is developing on all organizational and intellectual levels in the group .

 

Take for example concentrating on the internal elections, as a form of fragmenting legitimacy and distributing it among the grassroots and giving an end to the elite’s monopoly of it inside or outside the movement, this is one of the most obvious indications that confirm this trend and effectiveness of its followers inside or outside the movement !!

 

It is true that this option, and others, is the political, social and peaceful option that the movement is following, in its reformist method to change this obvious deteriorating state.

 

Options of Societal Participation

 

What emphasizes this idea in the activist awareness are:

-dealing with the society while assuming that the group is a part of it,

-Giving a priority to the societal reality in actions

-and attempting to affect the public awareness starting from the Islamic and cultural idea that it is adopting and heralding.

 

There are persistent attempts to exclude the movement and oblige it to change its method, in an attempt from the other to bring it out of the social work as a whole on the one hand or attempting to bring it closer to a certain ideology on the other hand.

 

There is no problem in these attempts because they can be seen as a fruitful interaction of ideas in the society, and a kind of bringing in the optimum alternative which is closer to the general public on cultural and realistic levels.

 

However, the main problem is in the autocratic persons who try consciously or unconsciously to establish a unilateral ideology that keeps the society with all its sections under the control of authoritarianism and dictatorship, and it even gradually keeps it away from the spirit of democracy and accepting the other in general.

 

The problem that the movement is facing on the internal level is that many of the cadres and members are obsessed by this view, strengthening the same thought while mixing it with the religious belief.

 

This undoubtedly leads to the appearance of a trend that the group has resisted so much, the armed revolutionary trend..!!!

 

Clarity of Vision, Priorities of Reality

 

Although the Muslim Brotherhood group understands this view, but it does not work in a vacuum and even it does not want to work in vacuum.

 

The dominating issues in this context include the situations of political coalitions and priorities of the general consensus, these matters may drive the group outside the limits of its personal capabilities or they may restrict its tactical options.

 

We are today speaking about one of these tactical important options: working with the people and raising their awareness in the crucial national issue of attempting to prevent people from attaining democracy, freedom and development, within framework of the so called constitutional amendments which are adopted by only one single party that monopolize the political life and reflects an autocratic power, not the hopes and aspiration of the Egyptian people.

 

What the writer does not understand is that retreat from doing important step that this pioneering organization should take, regardless of the expected results. This is because taking the action is itself and in this stage reveals the position of the model of openness and the ability to adopt it.

 

Despite the pressures that the movement has faced due to this temporal crisis in its history and in the Egyptian history as a whole, but establishing this model is very important.

 

When the views and scenarios of the future affect the movement, making it fear even revealing the real size of the positive effect in the public movement, and escape from it to a state of negative influence that can not be measured, this becomes a choice between the tactic and the strategy in response to pressures, not a choice between two tactical substitutes in response to reality.

 

Hence, we confirm here that unless this option has a real and tangible gain for the movement to compensate for its strategic loss, it will backfire both on its general project with the society or its internal institutional culture.

 

This will necessarily affect also the development of all the Egyptian society and delay the democratic, cultural, fair and free idea.