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Onderhoud met Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim

Daniel Benaim

In the weeks leading up to Egypt’s Presidential election, I had the opportunity to interview Dr. Saad Eddin Ibrahim. Dr. Ibrahim is
perhaps Egypt’s best-known dissident intellectual and the Founder and Chairman of the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies in Cairo, where I was a Summer Fellow in 2005. In June 2000, Dr. Ibrahim and two dozen of his associates were arrested and jailed on charges ranging from defrauding the European Union to disseminating information harmful to Egypt’s interests. After a
three-year ordeal during which Dr. Ibrahim (62years old at the time) was sentenced to seven years of hard laborall charges against him were dismissed by Egypt’s highest court and he was released from prison in 2003. Sitting in his office in a beautiful Islamic villa in Cairo’s Mokattam Heights, Dr. Ibrahim reflected on the prospects for democratization in Egypt and on his unique role in
Egyptian politics.
People have said that one of the major problems with the United States’ Middle East policy is a failure to predict and account for
change. Are the US and Western governments ready to deal with the possibility of religious
parties taking major roles across the region?
Religious parties have already taken control in Turkey, and I don’t see any reason why they cannot do it here. We are telling policymakers to be ready. I am telling everybody to get ready, because if we don’t open the process to religious
parties, then we will be beholden to the autocrats.
And if the autocrats continue, they will be the greatest help to the theocrats, who are their mirror image.

Burgerlike samelewing en Demokratisering in die Arabiese wêreld

Saad Eddin Ibrahim
Selfs al is Islam die Antwoord, Arabiese Moslems is die probleem

In Mei 2008, die Arabiese nasie het 'n aantal brande ervaar, of eerder, gewapende konflikte—in

Libanon, Irak, Palestina, Jemen, en Somalië. In hierdie konflikte,

die strydende partye het Islam as die instrument vir mobilisering gebruik

en ondersteuning te versamel. Gesamentlik, Moslems is

oorlog teen Moslems voer.

Nadat sommige Moslems die slagspreuk geopper het van “Islam is die oplossing,”

Dit

het duidelik geword dat "hulle Islam die probleem is." Nog nie vroeër het sommige van hulle wapens bekom nie,

as wat hulle dit teen die staat en sy regerende regime geopper het, ongeag

of daardie regime in die naam van Islam regeer het of nie.

Ons het

het dit die afgelope jare tussen die volgelinge van Osama bin Laden gesien

en die Al-Kaïda-organisasie aan die een kant, en die owerhede in

die Koninkryk van Saoedi-Arabië, op die ander. Ons het ook 'n gesien

plofbare voorbeeld van hierdie verskynsel in Marokko, wie se koning regeer in die naam van Islam en

wie se titel die 'Prins van die Gelowiges' is.’ So vermoor elke Moslem-faksie ander Moslems in die

naam van Islam.
'n Vinnige blik op die inhoud van die media bevestig hoe die

term Islam en sy gepaardgaande simbole het blote hulpmiddels in die hande van hierdie Moslems geword.

Prominente voorbeelde van hierdie Islam-uitbuitende faksies is:
Die Moslem Broederskap, Egiptiese Islamitiese Jihad, en Jamiat al-Islamiyya, in Egipte

Hamas en die Islamitiese Jihad-beweging, in Palestina Hezbollah, Fatah al-Islam,

en Jamiat al-Islammiyya, in Libanon Die Houthi Zayadi-rebelle en die Islamitiese Hervormingsgroepering

(Regstelling), in Jemen Die Islamitiese howe, in Somalië Die Islamitiese Front ,