What did Macron take from and give to Sisi?

We had ended our last piece by asking: "What, I wonder, does Macron, whose democracy has reached the limit of the Yellow Vest protests, hope to get from Sisi, who turned a democratic demonstration square into a lake of blood and made a grave for three thousand people?"

Macron arrived in Egypt on Monday and met with the putschist general Abdülfettah Sisi, who bears the blood of at least three thousand people and the responsibility for violating the human rights of his entire people. Regarding this meeting, Macron told the French press that he had reminded Sisi that human rights violations in Egypt must stop and that this is the basic condition for stability in Egypt and for a real fight against terrorism.

Judging by these words, you might think that Macron came to Egypt only to say these words to his face in a friendly manner.

Yet these words are in fact cheap precautionary sentences against the lightning that France's making of commercial agreements might attract in the presence of someone like Sisi, who is diametrically opposed to all the contemporary European values France claims. Words that take the whole world for fools.

Macron, who came to Egypt in these difficult days of hers in order to make 30 commercial cooperation agreements worth hundreds of millions of dollars, also gives the picture that he has sold all of France's acquis concerning democratic values for very little.

That was not all: while describing his trip in his own words in a tweet, Macron committed an outright Islamophobic scandal:

"Egypt and France have faced Islamic terrorism. I reminded President Sisi that our commitment on security cannot be thought of separately from the human rights issue. An inclusive society is the best shield against Islamist terrorism," he said, putting the cherry on top of the blunder he had made.

You see, the scandal in these statements is not limited to their Islamophobic dimension alone. From whichever side you look at it, it is of the kind that makes you ask where to even begin to set it right. Apart from the exposure of the most ignorant Orientalist and Islamophobic prejudice, the matters of to whom the words were said and by whom they were said are additionally edifying.

First, what kind of terrorism could Sisi suffer from, he who by his own coup has made the very height of terrorism the norm? Does not saying these words to this interlocutor, at best, if they are said in belief, show how far one is from the perception of reality?

A coup is the greatest act of terror. To tell a putschist that one is in the same position as he is against terror, to show solidarity with him, can at most mean saying that one is a co-offender in terror.

The human rights violations caused by the coup in Egypt are an open secret. Tens of thousands of political prisoners, harsh prison conditions and torture resembling medieval dungeons, thousands condemned to death who are given no right of defense, people forced to leave their homeland, and the arrest of everyone who might be a presidential candidate in the election even though no crime can be attributed to them. What advice could Macron give Sisi that would make it possible to ignore these violations?

Second, the concept of "Islamic terrorism" that Macron insists on using does not really show the existence of an Islamic terrorism; it only shows that he himself is flailing ignorantly in the grip of a religious bigotry against Islam.

Third, he himself has had the opportunity to say these words to someone who is the one responsible for or the perpetrator of terrorism in his own country, and the man facing him has probably not objected to these words. In this way Macron may have experienced a false sense of confidence of having had his own words confirmed. For he probably thought that the man opposite him is, after all, suddenly in the position of the leader of a Muslim country

Sisi, who is himself investing in an expression like "Islamic terrorism" in pursuit of legitimizing his successive crimes that stem from his own coup, could hardly have been expected to object to Macron.

Not only because this twisted, immoral expression serves his own purposes as well, but also because he is completely loyal to the hierarchy in the nature of the relationship between Macron and himself.

One could hardly expect a person who can regard Israel's arbitrary operations on his own country's soil and against his own people, and the deaths of hundreds of his innocent citizens, as "fighting terror" to defend Islam as an expression of freedom, from the state of mind of such a character.

This is neither the first nor the last example of the abasement that those who are ruthless dictators, oppressive and tyrannical toward their own people display before Europeans who have colonialism in their souls.

Still, it is also possible to ask whether Macron, who went to Egypt accompanied by a series of scenes of violence and rights violations concerning democratic demonstration rights in France, gave Sisi advice about human rights, or drew inspiration from him on suppressing protests and opposition.

Anyway, what Macron got and what Sisi gave during the Egypt visit is in fact known, and ours is just a question, that's all.