The execution of those who did not die at Rabaa in Egypt

While the world is focused on Idlib on one side, and on US President Trump's lawsuits and the wars he has opened against anyone who comes in front of him on the other, a military coup court in Egypt has quietly handed down death sentences against 75 of the elected officials against whom a coup was carried out.

Staging a coup is the lowest crime in the world, because it is a crime that contains within itself all the low crimes. Lies are in it, and betrayal, and treason against the homeland, theft and extortion, murder and rape, in short all crimes. Coup is the name of the package crime in which all these crimes are committed as a single package.

When a coup cannot be prevented, those crimes continue in succession. It continues its murders, its lies, its thefts, its distortion of the truth. Although it is itself the one that deserves to be put on trial for all these crimes, it finds a way to put on trial those whose right to life it has violated.

The coup organized by Sisi in Egypt opened a space for itself by spreading, with the most disgusting media campaign, the lie that Morsi had begun to turn into a dictator. In the end, a defense minister appointed by Morsi was promoted as the savior from dictatorship, and his coup resulted in the deaths of thousands of people and in a dictatorship that inflicts on its people an oppression and cruelty not seen even in the darkest periods of Egyptian history. When it proved impossible to disperse by persuasion those who objected peacefully to the coup, fire was opened on the crowds, and at least three thousand unarmed demonstrators were massacred in the most savage manner. Some of those who could not be massacred in the square were arrested and held under torture for years without trial or question in the harshest prison conditions. In these dungeons, on average several people die of their own accord every week because of these conditions. Hundreds of those who could not die there have the death sentence read to their faces in a single session in the courts to which they are brought.

In a court that continued in recent days, 75 people at once were given the death sentence, including close associates of Mohamed Morsi, perhaps the first elected President in Egyptian history. Hundreds more received life sentences. Among those who received the death sentence are Mohamed Beltagy, father of Asmaa Beltagy, who was targeted and massacred in the square and became the symbol of Rabia Square, as well as Imam Safwat Hegazy, one of Egypt's great scholars, and Tarek al-Zumar. Among those who received life sentences is Mohamed Badie, the General Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, who, after Rabia Square was bloodily stormed and 3 thousand of his brothers were massacred by the coup plotters, did not lose his composure and said "our peaceful stance is stronger than their bullets."

They knew very well that if they carried even a single pocketknife, the regime could turn it into an opportunity to justify its own violence. But beyond that, not inclining toward armed struggle was for them the result of a sense of responsibility toward their own people that was hard to bear. They saw very well that armed resistance would lead in Egypt to a civil war and chaos that could not be stopped, and however hard it was to endure, even if they were crushed, even if they were massacred, they preferred to be patient through all the oppression.

If peace is truly a precious value of the world we live in, these people should be rewarded for the self-denial they have shown in their own rights in not dragging their country into a further spiral of violence.

Yet while the world did not see this delicacy of theirs, the military coup regime did not hold back from displaying the shamelessness of holding them responsible for the murders it had itself committed. The killing of 3 thousand innocent demonstrators in this way is a great crime that requires trial no matter what. But far from being tried, since no one asks about its front or back, its nature or its number, the coup plotters keep raising the bar of shamelessness and dare to pin all the crimes on themselves by trying the victims of the square, those who could not escape, those who did not die, those who survived a massacre.

Such is the shamelessness that no one's face reddens even when it emerges that 5 of those being tried for death had already died because of torture and harsh conditions in prison.

The coup in Egypt and the world's stance toward this coup are an instructive example that reveals, with all its parameters, the order and the hypocrisy of the world we live in.

How will the Western world, which for a century has been reading in the Muslims' hearth, as if cooking boza, the question of why democracy has not developed in the Muslim world, hide from now on that if there is any fault in this matter, nearly all of it belongs to itself?

At the same time as the death sentence issued by Egypt's military coup regime against 75 innocent demonstrators, 1.2 billion dollars of US aid to Sisi was released. As if paying a subcontractor his due...

Yet what has hit rock bottom with the death sentence is the so-called "Western values" that are claimed, democracy, human rights...

Isn't this payment to Sisi, in spite of the democracy he massacred, from the US, which stops arms sales with its money through Congress decisions in each of its disputes with Turkey, being made precisely as the price for killing a democracy that had begun to revive in a Muslim country?