[ May 2, 2024 ]
During a show on the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood’s Elsharq TV (based in Turkey), Egyptian journalist Emad Albeheery went on a rampage, and a rant, against three people.
First, he was enraged that a prominent journalist, Khaled Salah, the editor-in-chief of al-Youm al-Sabaa — a news outlet with close ties to Egypt’s security services — had tweeted praise for Hanukkah, calling it a victory for monotheism against “paganism” and advising his audience to read about the Jewish festival’s central historical figure, Judah Maccabee. This coincided with the first public Hanukkah celebration in decades, at the Shaar Hashamayim synagogue in Cairo, attended by members of Egypt’s tiny Jewish community alongside an American delegation. Albeheery did not mention the Hanukkah celebration — he must not have known about it, for if he had, all hell would certainly have broken loose on Elsharq TV — but he denounced Khaled Salah’s suggestion that there could be anything good about Hanukkah. What Salah was praising about the holiday was nothing uniquely Jewish, but rather, the celebration of the very concept of “monotheism,” which is shared by Islam, Judaism, and Christianity. Albeheery was not impressed; he was having none of it.
A second target for Albeheery’s anger was the poet and translator Fatima Naoot, who on December 10 had written an op-ed in Al Masry Al Youm, after attending that official Hanukkah party in Cairo, about how much Jews had contributed to Egyptian culture, how loyal they had been to Egypt (remaining in the country years after Israel had been created), and how much of a shame it was that they were forcibly expelled from Egypt by Nasser.
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There was a furious reaction to her article. Some called her a Zionist, though she has not come out in support of the Jewish state; she still believes there are dispossessed “Palestinians.” But she openly recognizes that the Jews of Egypt had greatly enriched the country’s culture, and she was merely lamenting their departure from the country to which, she insisted, they had always been true. A convinced secularist, she clearly is impressed with Jews, and in her article she describes their support of Egyptian culture, its art, its music, its literature. Albeheery was sent into a fury by her praise of Egyptian Jews, who in his stark view could only be Zionists, and therefore necessarily fifth columnists, disloyal to Egypt. He was not moved by their expulsion, nor by the fact that for many Egyptian Jews, Israel was the only place, in the 1950s, that would take them in.
The third, and most important, target for Albeheery’s anger was Abdelfattah El-Sisi himself, who had done something so terrible that Albeheery could hardly contain himself. What was the unpardonable sin El-Sisi committed? He allotted 72 million dollars to the restoration of Jewish buildings in Egypt. This did not reflect philosemitism, as Albeheery seems to think, but the calculations of realpoliitik.
First, Egyptian policymakers see American Jews and organizations as having great clout in Washington, and by spending money to repair Jewish historical sites, they would be winning favor with them. El-Sisi and his men hope thereby to gain entree to the corridors of power in Washington for themselves.
Second, by restoring Jewish heritage sites, the Egyptian government hopes to better market Egypt to Jewish tourists worldwide. Jews are well represented in global tourism and in the travel business itself. Egypt’s expenditures on Jewish sites might not only encourage Jewish tourism, but make Egypt more visible and desirable as a destination for Jews working in travel and tourism throughout the Western world, to recommend.
Third, by supporting his decision to allot such a large sum ($72 million) to repairs of Jewish sites, El-Sisi’s advisers are likely hoping to burnish his image as a tolerant leader who deserves Western support even if he has to come down hard on the Muslim Brotherhood.
Albeheery could not allow himself to entertain such rational calculations. He could only imagine one thing: in order to do what he did, El-Sisi must have had a Jewish mother, which would mean that he himself was Jewish. For why else would any Egyptian care about Jewish sites in Egypt? Emad Albeheery claims to believe that El-Sisi’s Jewish mother raised him as a Muslim, while all the while he secretly remained a Jew, and managed to get him into the military academy, and then into the Egyptian army, where he rose through the ranks, and eventually, still a secret Jew, he “pulled a coup and took over Egypt.”
Emad Albeheery is a hysteric, but he is hardly alone. His hysteria is shared by many Egyptians, who, whenever anything connected to Jews or to Israel comes up, lose their faculty of reason. They cannot imagine why a Muslim would praise anything connected to Jews (Khaled Salah on Hanukkah), or say something positive about Jews themselves (Fatima Naoot on Egyptian Jews), or want to preserve and restore Jewish sites in Egypt (El-Sisi).
Let the last word on El-Sisi, the Secret Jew, be given not to Emad Albeheery, but to his television host Ahmed Atwan, who turns out to be just as crazy as he is:
“Guys, all his actions are Jewish! Everything he does is for the Zionists!”
And that, in two sentences, is the state of Muslim political discourse today.
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22 Comments
5 years ago
I’m never going to watch el sharq tv ever again !
5 years ago
When did any muslim anywhere have the faculty of reason?
5 years ago
Turkey LOVES the Muslim Brother!
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Not sure if Turkey loves the Muslim Brother, or loves the money he brings to Turkey.
5 years ago
The Muslim Brotherhood becoming embedded was Obama’s doing.
5 years ago
Gaddafi was accused of being a secret Jew before he was assassinated.
5 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
Benazir Bhutto, the first and last female PM of Pakistain, was also accused of being a zionist sympathizer before she was assassinated.
5 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
Calling someone a jew among Muslim is same as calling him a dog and shooting it
These jihadis must be crazy. when they are allowed to immigrate , get freebies as jizya why do they need to do violent jihad ?
But this Moderate jihadi at Huff post uses some Al-taqiya about Jesus and wants you to give “al your money and home to those in need (muslims)” https://tinyurl.com/ybxxx2q4
what do you think ?
5 years ago
Reply to
tigbojdtlt
Sadly? Only because it makes the Jewish people look bad. Gaddafi’s government was fully involved in the bombing of the Lockerbie, Scotland airliner bombing that killed hundreds of people.
5 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
Read another of Pamela Geller’s previous posts on this subject. There is an author called Douglas Boyd who wrote about Lockerbie. He says it is not Gaddafi or the Libyan called Megrahi who was wrongly accused. No evidence. String of lies. But rather the Palestinian terrorists called PFLP which stands for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine who were responsible for Lockerbie, Scotland airliner bombing that killed hundreds of people. Even Yasser Arafat’s PLO at the time submitted an 80 page report saying that PFLP had done it. PFLP was apparently back by Iran. Iran was very bad in those days. Iran has made great improvements now. No more terrorism. In fact they fight against Islamic terrorism. But Pompous Mike Pompeo from the Trump administration still wants to use Iran as scape goat, giving Iran no praise for the good work they had done fighting Isis, and treating them as a regional threat, which they are not.
5 years ago
Egypt has many problems that emanate from the unjust Muhammadist doctrine: censorship, oppression of atheists, morning loudspeaker Mosques, terrorism, incitement to the unjust Muhammad-law & war.
Barack Hussein Obama financed Muhammadists in Egypt but was never prosecuted because there is no healthy USA-government.
Trump sells weapons to Saudi Arabia & Muhammadist Nigeria & the only thing he said of Pamela Geller was “Why is she insulting everybody?”
The insane leading the sane.
5 years ago
Reply to
Jay Wizzy
The role of politicians is very different from the role of journalists and protesters. Lincoln had a very different role from the abolitionists. He agreed with them at heart, but for him to succeed in ending slavery, he had to compromise with all kinds of forces, including the racist forces that were also in the North. Had he not compromised, the unity of the North would have collapsed, the South would have won the war, and a slave-based confederacy would have been established in the South. So while people on the ground can simply state the unadulterated truth, politicians have to get large coalitions of disagreeing people to follow the politician’s lead (at least that is true in a democracy). When two of his military commanders declared local emancipations without consulting him, Lincoln abrogated their declarations, because politically the time was not right and those emancipations could easily have led to disaster for the long term cause of freedom. Lincoln waited till the time was right, then acted. While Trump is no Lincoln, there may be an analogy here to Lincoln’s action in abrogating the earlier emancipations. In his criticisms of the courageous Pam Geller and others involved, Trump arguably was trying to gain a certain political control of his “generals”, as it were, and take charge of the whole business. If you look at some of the people now on the inside of the Trump administration or connected with it — Jay Sekulow, Bolton, the Center for Security Policy — I think I am not exaggerating about the degree of Trump’s sympathy for Islam-critics. When the criticisms of the courageous Geller happened, I recall that the most prominent counter-jihadist and Islam-critic in the world soured for a time on Trump and gave indications of doubting Trump’s sincerity on these issues. At the time, I commented, “wait, just wait, you’ll see he’s sincere on these issues, but as a politician his role is different from yours. Your role is to shout the truth from the housetops. His role is to marshal vast and disparate forces and get them to reach the goal you want, which takes longer and requires compromise, tact, deceit, or at least not always being forthright.” I think I was right that Trump was sincere on these issues. Not to say he can’t be criticized, of course. Just my two cents.
5 years ago
Far too many generations of inbreeding coupled with Islam on display here…
5 years ago
Thanks to Hugh Fitzgerald for this interesting window into Egypt and Turkey.
5 years ago
Reply to
traeh
It will be very interesting to see how Egypt and Turkey develop in the future. Whether the jihadists win out, or the intelligent people win.
5 years ago
Same thing here in the US the crazies are lecturing the sane.
5 years ago
Ever since the Arabs conquered Egypt, it has literally never been the same. Another ancient civilization ruined by the religion of peace.
5 years ago
I remember Egypt had a “documentary” that portrayed the Protocols of the Elders of Zion as historical fact. It even included a dramatization of a rabbi arranging for a gentile infant to be bled dry to make flour for matzoh.
5 years ago
This is a good article and it gives hope.
A similar thing is happening in the Muslim world as in the Western world. I think it has something to do with social media.
In the past the main-stream media could spread lies, such as Jews are bad, Israelis in particular are bad to Palestinians.
Now thanks to social media, there are different narratives emerging. The truth is slowly coming to light.
However, my experience of many people, is that they have no interest in the truth, especially in subjects that do not directly concern them. They just want to know which opinion is fashionable. Is it more fashionable to be pro-pali or pro-israeli? So to achieve justice, goodness, kindness in this world we still must pray to God to send the Holy Spirit down to stir man and woman’s hearts.
This is the Lady of All Nations prayer:
“Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Father, send now Your Spirit over the earth. Let the Holy Spirit live in the hearts of all nations, that they may be preserved from degeneration, disaster and war. May the Lady of All Nations, who once was Mary, be our Advocate. Amen.”
5 years ago
The failures of Islamic society and civilization are so vast and endemic that its defenders must blame any and all failures on the Jews and any other society other than their own. That anyone would question Islam would bring them instant opposition and sudden death. Islam is parasitic and like Communism depends upon devouring and enslaving all in its grasp until nothing is left except hate.
