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The EU could not cross the Red Sea and sank

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"Europe's priority is to create wealth and to preserve it, but our priority is to preserve our country, to protect it from falling, collapsing and crumbling." This is what Sisi said, standing beside Europe's democratic, human-rights-loving, civilized leaders, who listened to him in awe. Ah yes, beside them were also leaders who are members of the Arab League.

What kind of meeting is this? Why have they come together? What will they find a solution to together? Since they gathered right after a series of murders, as if to reward and encourage them, it is quite obvious that they did not gather against murders, against savagery, for humanity, for human values, for good.

"You talk about death sentences, but please do not pressure us, do not teach us our humanity, we have our own humanity, our own values, our own ethics, we respect you and you should respect us. Respect our ethical values."

With these words he defends the killing of young people in Egypt on the basis of confessions extracted under torture, for crimes attributed to them. However you look at it, this is a disgraceful defense; however you look at it, it is a vile one.

First, there is a shamelessness that has usurped the values of the Egyptian people and speaks roughshod on their behalf. First of all, do the "values of the Egyptian people" that he refers to, and about which he says "respect them," include killing people unjustly, cruelly, under torture?

Sisi should not slander the Egyptian people. These cannot be the values of the Egyptian people. These cannot be the values of any people. These values, which rest on no law and no moral foundation, cannot be the values of any people. Massacring three thousand civilian, civilized, peaceful demonstrators by strafing them, and rounding up those they could not massacre there with slanders and wiping out their lineage through sham trials cannot be the value of any people, let alone the Egyptian people.

These can at most be Sisi's own values, which he concocted to protect the power he unjustly usurped by a coup.

More shameful than Sisi's being able to utter these words so brazenly is of course that the defense of these murders, each as terrible and immoral as a Khashoggi murder, was listened to by the AB leaders without objection.

"These are our own particular values, our conditions," he says. He explains in one sentence crimes against humanity: his torture is one, his executions another, his coup and his more than a hundred thousand detainees yet another. And those very intellectual, very democratic, civilized AB leaders nod their heads there. What is this if not the picture of the whole of Europe drowning in the Red Sea?

Let no one try to deceive either themselves or others. The AB countries, by being guests of Sisi in Egypt precisely in the days when these unjust executions were being carried out, became partners to all his crimes. Thus the saying "Pharaoh and his entourage" has come true once again. The AB leaders, who swallowed it when he said "these are our values," did not set against these disgraceful bandit values their famous values, which they set against Turkey even in the most irrelevant situations; following in the footsteps of Pharaoh, they drowned in the Red Sea.

The Red Sea was the last stop for Pharaoh, who went ahead, and for the people who followed behind him and drove their horses into the Red Sea, and for the elite of his people, in the arduous pursuit they undertook to hunt the valiant youth who were after their freedom.

The place at which the AB countries, who put their own values up for sale, have arrived is Sharm el-Sheikh on the Red Sea. The poses of solidarity there with Sisi, whose hands are fresh with the blood of young, innocent people, are engraved as a pitch-black stain that will have the whole of European history rewritten and will in fact remind us of it anew.

The AB thus showed once again that it has no loyalty to the values it claims. Besides, the values it markets as European Values are not even its own values. Human rights, freedom, multiculturalism, democracy: values it has appropriated by gleaning from the accumulation of all the civilizations the West has exploited. It has no loyalty even to those values. For it those values are idols made of halva, which it will readily eat when it is hungry, when it needs to, when it suits it.

It clings to them to the extent that it can exert pressure on others and rule them. They are values that they cling to because they find them functional in their own countries, but values that are deemed too much for Muslims.

That is why they always try to keep Turkey on the defensive on democratization and human rights, but when there are coup attempts against Turkey they are immediately caught in solidarity with the coup-makers, and indeed they were caught.

FETÖ AND SISI PARALLELS

It is not very strange that whenever we bring up Sisi's executions and the tens of thousands of political prisoners in his dungeons, an alliance of Arab trolls and FETÖ trolls immediately pounces with the same arguments. This kinship was seen once again on the occasion of the meeting on the Red Sea coast. What was wanted in Turkey was also a Sisi administration.

Had the FETÖ coup attempt succeeded, the order that would have been established in Turkey too would have been the Khashoggi-murder order, the Sisi dictatorship, and its victim would have been the whole of the Turkish people. God forbid, had they succeeded, they would have imposed Sisi's order on Turkey today, with its executions, its arbitrary trials, its torture and its dungeons, its exiles.

Those who today, whenever victimhood is at issue, display the cunning of stealing parallels between themselves and Sisi's victims should be left with their hypocrisy and their spite.

They spew out their anger at the coup they could not carry out as "Sisis who could not be appointed." If there is any parallel between them and the Sisi order, it is the brains watered down by the Balaam of the Pharaonic order.

Balaam steps in to legitimize before religious people the order that Pharaoh has difficulty legitimizing by force. The muftis who issue fatwas for the killing of young innocent children in Egypt, selling the knowledge given by God for a small price, and FETÖ, which tries to use the knowledge it has stolen from the Book of God to bring down Turkey, the only remaining hope against pharaohs in the world: this is the only "parallel" they deserve.

The Red Sea, which became a grave for Pharaoh and his elite, has opened its embrace and awaits them all for the same fate. And the martyrs whom they imagine they have killed are awaited by the Prophet, who has opened his embrace.

THANK YOU ERDOĞAN

Against the massacre-like executions, over which even all the AB leaders who leave no stone unturned on democracy, freedom and human rights remained silent, again a single world leader raised a strong voice. That voice became a consolation to the oppressed, and reminded the oppressed once more that hope in the world has not run out and will not run out. It also announced anew to the oppressors that the breath of what they have oppressed is on their necks.

May my Lord always keep that voice alive.

Thank you, our esteemed President, thank you, esteemed Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.