The democracy-fear of Khashoggi's killers

The Khashoggi murder, carried out in a premeditated way and with full-fledged organization at Saudi Arabia's Istanbul Consulate General, produced the opposite results, and continues to, because of a "small hitch" that was not in the perpetrators' plans. What was planned and calculated was one thing; the outcome that has emerged is something entirely different. Everyone can guess how those who planned and carried out this job must be kicking themselves now.

If there were a chance to rewind the film, they would probably already be willing to give their entire fortunes not to have undertaken such a thing. But we are at a point where regret is of no use. Lust for power and greed can always put such prices in a person's path. And a person is struck most from the point where he is most powerful, from the place where he trusts himself most.

If Khashoggi were still alive, if he were writing the most venomous articles in the world, if he were writing articles many times more effective than what he had written until now, how much harm could he have done to his killers? Those who took his life are probably losing thousands of times more than they hoped to gain by this means. They now face the loss of their reputation, their respectability, their splendid standing in the world, their friends, their alliances, their influence and authority reaching everywhere, their peace, and more importantly their mental and psychological health.

Khashoggi's cursed soul is raining down upon them.

Does the revenge for an innocent murder come this fast?

We said at the start: Nobody will be able to risk preserving their relations with the suspects of the Khashoggi murder as before. Even Trump, making big blunders at first, had to withdraw the support he gave. Is any sound coming on this matter from MBZ and Sisi, members of the alliance behind all the coups and civil war processes that have recently drenched the Middle East in blood? How they have all fallen silent. Why does not even the feeblest statement of support come from any of them for their partner with whom they entered every road together?

Because the crime committed is not a simple crime, and even if it was carried out through the complicity of all of them, it cannot be shouldered together. No one can share in this shame. We are at a moment of mass conscience-driven punishment in which brother does not recognize brother.

In fact, the data that emerged because of this murder has made it possible for everyone to read the world with new eyes. So to speak, it has opened the world's eyes.

It may be hard to believe, but for quite some time no one other than this axis was supplying the data that provoked the Western world with Islamophobic motivations. It is the rulers of these Islamic countries themselves who incite hostility to Islam; we often blame Westerners in vain.

Just by looking at their ability, from the beginning to the end of the Khashoggi affair alone, to distort the facts and produce enemy concepts, one can understand what kind of disinformation the world has recently been exposed to at their hands.

It can be seen that this group, which has a significant paid troll army and media organization, has acquired an incredible capacity to produce and spread the concept of "Islamic terror" as they wish and to stick it as a label on whomever they wish.

It is known that those who committed the Khashoggi murder, in this savagery, have made a very effective effort to demonize the Ikhwan, a movement widespread all over the world that has never been inclined to arms and violence. Sisi, who accuses the Ikhwan of being terrorists, and the killers of Khashoggi, who provide financial and lobbying support for this in the USA, manage to make people forget that the same Ikhwan came to power in Egypt through democratic elections and, only a year later, was removed from power by a bloody military coup.

Moreover, Sisi, who carried out the military coup, ruthlessly massacred at least three thousand peaceful demonstrators among those who opposed the coup, by strafing them. The only conclusion that can come out of this story is the massacre of three thousand people at Rabaa Square, a crime against humanity each of which was committed as savagely as a DAESH murder. Yet through the lobbying activities they carry out, the killers of Khashoggi have been able to produce even from this story tales about the Ikhwan's evil.

I have in my hands the minutes of a meeting held by some Saudi and American officials. The subject is counterterrorism, Yemen, Iran, the situations in Egypt, and the Ikhwan.

In these minutes, what stands out is the American side's objections to the pressure the Saudi side applied on the American side for the Ikhwan to be considered a terrorist organization in Saudi Arabia, as well as in Egypt and Yemen. The lobbying efforts that Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the UAE jointly displayed toward US congress members for a bill that would make it possible to consider the Ikhwan a terrorist organization are also mentioned.

The odd thing is that, against their Saudi counterparts' insistence on this, the US side says they do not know on what grounds they would consider the Ikhwan terrorist, and that it would be difficult to consider them terrorists merely because they are opposition. In return, they state that if sufficient evidence is presented the USA will of course not refrain from doing this either.

The initiatives some congress members made in recent months about the Ikhwan, starting from reports prepared on the Ikhwan, are a result of these efforts.

In this way this lobby is trying to demonize, in the Western world, the most widespread, most peaceful and most respected civil society formation of the Islamic world. Since it has been laid out as clear as day with the Khashoggi affair how badly they abuse the media and lobbying capacities in their hands, it should also have been understood from what vantage point the Western world looks at the Islamic world.

If one were to ask what the source of these countries' fear of the Ikhwan is, you could find no reason other than democracy.

Fear of the Ikhwan is in fact only fear of democracy.

Has the time not come for the Western world to question with what motivations and what kind of alliance it has been forming with the enemies of democracy?

How many more Khashoggi cases will be needed to open eyes?