Friday, July 25, 2014

وسقطت مصر

وسقطت مصر


بقلم: محمد شريف كامل*
@mskamel
23 يوليو 2014


تمر علينا ذكرى 23 يوليو للعام الثاني ومصر تحت حكم سفاح سعى هو وعصابته لإسقاط مصر، ولقد سقطت مصر ولا عيب في سقوط يتبعه قيام، فهذا هو حال الأمم تسقط ثم تقوم. وقد حاولت مصر كثيرا أن تقاوم السقوط. ففي العصر الحديث توالى السقوط وعاصر جيلنا أشده بسقوط 1967 حين رأى العدو الداخلي والخارجي ضرورة إسقاط مصر، فمنذ هذه اللحظة ومصر تتعثر خطواتها.

وبذل جهد شديد أنتج إعادة بناء القوات المسلحة العربية والذي حققه التماسك الشعبي العربي الذي أنجب انتصار 1973، إلا أن كل ذلك استثمر لصالح العدو الأزلي بهزيمة زيارة القدس المشؤومة ومعاهدة كامب دافيد من بعده.

وسقطت مصر في حكم عائلة مبارك الذي عشش على مصر 30 عاما، وعندما استيقظت منة في ثورة يناير 2011 التي كسرت حاجز الخوف والخنوع أسقطها دعاة الليبرالية في أيدي بقايا نظام مبارك والانقلاب الساقط الذي سحبها إلى قاع الانحطاط الذي لم تصل له في أي يوم على مدى التاريخ، والذي ولأول مرة قسم الشعب المصري واسال الدم المصري بيد تبدوا مصرية.

ولقد فضحت البربرية الاسرائيلية ذلك السقوط المشين والذي ولا شك من الأسباب الرئيسية لإراقة الدماء في غزة، ولا مخرج من ذلك سوى وقوف أصحاب الحق صف واحد، يجب ان لا نأخذ في الاعتبار العصابة الحاكمة في مصر ولا النظم الغربية ومؤيديهم، فهم جميعا في خندق واحد.

وبينما نحن نترحم على شهداء الغدر، ضحايا السيسي في مصر وفلسطين، يجب أن نتحرك إيجابيا لإسقاط النظام الحاكم في مصر، النظام وليس السفاح المتربع على عرشة فقط.

نعم مصر سقطت في يد السفاح وشركاه في الداخل والخارج، ولكنها لم تمت. فذلك السقوط سوف يتيح للمخلصين من كافة الاتجاهات السياسية أن يجمعوا جهودهم لتحقيق الصحوة التي ستحتاج جهود وتضحيات جبارة. حيث يقع على عاتقهم إيقاظ المارد الذي يريد له العديد موت أبدي، ولتحقيق ذلك يقع على عاتقهم:

- وضع وتنفيذ استراتيجيات مقاومة الانقلاب
- وضع وتنفيذ ميثاق عمل واليات للشفافية والمحاسبة لفترة ما قبل إسقاط الانقلاب
- وضع وتنفيذ خطه عمل لإعادة أحياء الوعي الوطني
- وضع تصور لملامح المرحلة الانتقالية وأدوات العمل خلالها
-  وضع استراتيجيات بناء الدولة وتطهير أجهزتها

وذلك لن يتحقق إلا من خلال عمل مشترك يتنزه أولا عن تصفيه حسابات الماضي والصراع على السلطة المسلوبة، والطريق يبدأ من تشكيل جبهة إنقاذ وطني حقيقية من كل القوي الوطنية الرافضة للانقلاب وبلا استبعاد لأي منها. تعمل من خلال استقلاليه كاملة بعيده عن كل قوي السيطرة المحلية والدولية وبعيده عن كل الأيدولوجيات في إطار ديمقراطي يمزج الداخل والخارج.

لقد كان من الأمثل أن تعلن حكومة منفي التي كان توقيتها الصائب يوم مجزره رابعه، ولكنها فكرة تأخرت كثيرا. وكذلك لقد تخطينا مرحلة التحالفات التي تملأ الداخل والخارج صخبا. وأصبحنا أمام خيار واحد ألا وهو مجلس وطني يأخذ على عاتقه هذه المهمة التي تحتاج لجهود وتضحيات جبارة تبدأ من عمل جاد لإعادة أحياء الوعي الوطني الذي كان المدخل لكل السقطات والخروج منه سيكون الطريق لصحوة حقيقية.


محمد شريف كامل

* Mohamed S. Kamel: is a Freelance writer, the editor of http://forafreeegypt.blogspot.com/, he is a professional engineer, a LEED Green Associate and a recognized project manager professional, he is Member of several civil society organizations, a co-founder of the Egyptian Canadian Coalition for Democracy (ECCD-CECD(, Egyptian worldwide for Democracy and Justice (EW4DJ), Canadian Egyptian for Democracy (CEFD), National Association for Change in Egypt (Taghyeer – Canada), Association of the Egyptians of Montreal (AEM), Alternative Perspective Media (APM-RAM), , Quebec Antiwar movement “Échec à la Guerre”, Coalition for Justice and Peace in Palestine “CJPP”, ex-president and co-founder of the Canadian Muslim Forum (CMF), member of the board of trustee in the Canadian Muslim for Palestine (CMP) and Community Center for Montreal Muslims (CCMM) . He could be reached at public@mohamedkamel.com and followed at @mskamel


Wednesday, July 16, 2014

My Interview with Radio Shalom, a pro-Israel radio in Montreal

My Interview with Radio Shalom, a pro-Israel radio in Montreal, start from Minute 33:32 to 49:35 
Listen before it to the propaganda from the Israeli Consul General   

(Note that he introduce me as the organizer of the rally, while I am not, which is an honor I don’t deserve)


Mohamed S, Kamel

Montreal, July 13, 2014

Saturday, July 12, 2014

الدور القذر للنظام المصري وعصابة الرياض- دبي في تدمير غزة والقضية الفلسطينية


الدور القذر للنظام المصري وعصابة الرياض- دبي في تدمير غزة والقضية الفلسطينية

من غزة في 12 يوليو 2014

(منقول وموثق بمنطق تسلسل الاحداث، وسيظل المغرضون من أعداء العرب يقنعوا الخانعين منهم حتى يسجد هذا القطيع بالكامل للصهيونية)

سأغرد قليلا عن زيارة مدير المخابرات المصرية العميل محمد فريد التهامي للكيان الصهيوني قبل العدوان الأخير على غزة ودور الرياض ودبي

التقي محمد فريد التهامي بقادة الصهاينة الأمنيين والجيش وكان هدف الزيارة التنسيق للضربة العسكرية على غزة كما أوضحنا وقت الزيارة فكان مطلب التهامي لقادة الصهاينة "توجيه ضربة قاسمة لحماس وذراعها العسكري" ضمن خطته في القضاء على الإخوان في المنطقة

وسالت قادة الصهاينة التهامي عن مسألتين: مدي جدية الرياض ودبي من القضاء على القسام وحماس والثانية إن كان السيسي مستعد للمشاركة

جاء رد التهامي بأن زيارته لإسرائيل جاءت بعد مشاورات مكثفة مع الرياض ودبي وأنهم يباركون بشدة وعلى استعداد لتعويض إسرائيل مالياً

كانت صدمة الصهاينة في رفض التهامي مشاركة السيسي بشكل مباشر عسكريا في الحرب والعذر أن الرياض عارضت ذلك بشدة لأنها ستحرجهم كداعمين للسيسي

دام الجدال حول مشاركة مصر أكثر من 6 ساعات تخللها اتصالات من التهامي للقاهرة والرياض ورفض المطلب لكنه إستعوض بالسماح للعدو احتلال محور فيلاديلفيا الحدودي بين قطاع غزة ومصر لفسح المجال للعدو الصهيوني من اقتحام غزة من عدة محاور وإحكام السيطرة، لهذا أخلى السيسي المحور

ولقد ظهر جليا لدي قادة حماس خلال ما عرف باتصالات التهدئة من قبل مخابرات مصر أن الأخيرة لم تكن جدية بل مخادعة ومراوغة فأملت حماس شروط، وكانت تعلم مسبقا أن مخابرات السيسي والعدو لن يقبلها وكان الاستعداد من قبل القسام للأسوأ وهم يعلمون أن الخطة اقتحام بري فاستعدوا منذ بدء القصف الصهيوني تحضيرا لحرب برية ولم تعول حماس على الرياض والخليج كالعادة بل لم يطالبوا السيسي بأي وساطة فكيف وهم العدو المبين.

فكانت مبادرة القسام بضرب الكيان الصهيوني في عقر داره وعمقه لأن هذه المعركة لن تكون كسابقتها والردع منذ اللحظة الأولي ضرورة قصوى



الدور القذر للنظام المصري وعصابة الرياض- دبي في تدمير غزة والقضية الفلسطينية


من غزة في 12 يوليو 2014

(منقول وموثق بمنطق تسلسل الاحداث، وسيظل المغرضون من أعداء العرب يقنعوا الخانعين منهم حتى يسجد هذا القطيع بالكامل للصهيونية)

سأغرد قليلا عن زيارة مدير المخابرات المصرية العميل محمد فريد التهامي للكيان الصهيوني قبل العدوان الأخير على غزة ودور الرياض ودبي

التقي محمد فريد التهامي بقادة الصهاينة الأمنيين والجيش وكان هدف الزيارة التنسيق للضربة العسكرية على غزة كما أوضحنا وقت الزيارة فكان مطلب التهامي لقادة الصهاينة "توجيه ضربة قاسمة لحماس وذراعها العسكري" ضمن خطته في القضاء على الإخوان في المنطقة

وسالت قادة الصهاينة التهامي عن مسألتين: مدي جدية الرياض ودبي من القضاء على القسام وحماس والثانية إن كان السيسي مستعد للمشاركة

جاء رد التهامي بأن زيارته لإسرائيل جاءت بعد مشاورات مكثفة مع الرياض ودبي وأنهم يباركون بشدة وعلى استعداد لتعويض إسرائيل مالياً

كانت صدمة الصهاينة في رفض التهامي مشاركة السيسي بشكل مباشر عسكريا في الحرب والعذر أن الرياض عارضت ذلك بشدة لأنها ستحرجهم كداعمين للسيسي

دام الجدال حول مشاركة مصر أكثر من 6 ساعات تخللها اتصالات من التهامي للقاهرة والرياض ورفض المطلب لكنه إستعوض بالسماح للعدو احتلال محور فيلاديلفيا الحدودي بين قطاع غزة ومصر لفسح المجال للعدو الصهيوني من اقتحام غزة من عدة محاور وإحكام السيطرة، لهذا أخلى السيسي المحور
ولقد ظهر جليا لدي قادة حماس خلال ما عرف باتصالات التهدئة من قبل مخابرات مصر أن الأخيرة لم تكن جدية بل مخادعة ومراوغة فأملت حماس شروط، وكانت تعلم مسبقا أن مخابرات السيسي والعدو لن يقبلها وكان الاستعداد من قبل القسام للأسوأ وهم يعلمون أن الخطة اقتحام بري فاستعدوا منذ بدء القصف الصهيوني تحضيرا لحرب برية ولم تعول حماس على الرياض والخليج كالعادة بل لم يطالبوا السيسي بأي وساطة فكيف وهم العدو المبين.
فكانت مبادرة القسام بضرب الكيان الصهيوني في عقر داره وعمقه لأن هذه المعركة لن تكون كسابقتها والردع منذ اللحظة الأولي ضرورة قصوى



Wednesday, July 9, 2014

The man the Israeli-Palestinian crisis needs most? Egypt’s Mohamed Morsi

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/07/09/the-man-the-israeli-palestinian-crisis-needs-most-egypts-mohamed-morsi/
 July 9, 2014


Less than two years ago, the situation between Israel and the Palestinian territories seemed to be on the brink of disaster. In November 2012, Israeli airstikes pummeled the Gaza Strip while militants fired rockets back at Israeli towns. As scores of Palestinians died and Israeli families cowered, the international community seemed split and unsure about how to deal with it. Experienced international mediators looked impotent.
In fact, the one man who seemed able to step in had been a world leader only for a few months. And, unfortunately, he would be a world leader only for a few months longer.
At the time, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi's role in the Israeli-Palestinian talks was something of a revelation. After the conclusion of the talks, all sides seemed to agree that Egypt had played the key role in solving the crisis. Here's how The Post's Michael Birnbaum put it in 2012:
The end result — an agreement between Israel and Hamas, which have long refused to acknowledge each other, brokered by a neighboring Islamist government — would have been unthinkable before the Arab Spring reshaped the region less than two years ago, toppling autocrats who had long held political Islam at bay and strengthening the hand of once-isolated groups such as Hamas.
Morsi had played a different game than his predecessor, Hosni Mubarak. While Egypt had negotiated peace treaties before, critics of the Egyptian autocrat had long argued that he had bowed to Israeli and U.S. pressure to isolate the Gaza Strip and Hamas. Morsi, of course, was part of the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamist movement that eventually gave birth to Hamas. Soon after entering office, he eased travel for Palestinians across the Rafah crossing in southern Gaza, a small but clearly noteworthy change of course.

As negotiations began in November 2012, no one was surprised that Morsi came down on the side of the Palestinians. What was surprising, however, was that he seemed to be able to do so without alienating the Israelis. The Egyptian president pledged to adhere to the 1979 Israel-Egypt peace treaty, for example, and kept lines of communication to Israel and the United States open as tensions grew. The communication and good faith proved fruitful: Just minutes before the brokered truce went into effect, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly said that he wanted to express his "appreciation for the efforts of Egypt to obtain a cease-fire.”
Times have changed, and Morsi isn't around to help mediate today's Israeli-Palestinian crisis. Egypt's first democratically elected leader was forced out of office a year ago; he is facing a number of criminal charges related to his time in office. Morsi was eventually replaced by Egyptian military leader Abdel Fatah al-Sissi in an election this year that left many international observers underwhelmed.
Exactly what Sissi makes of the Palestinian situation is unclear. On the one hand, since his election, he has significantly tightened the borders with the Gaza Strip. However, before he was elected, he said he would not receive an Israeli prime minister without concessions to Palestinians. Egypt’s ambassador to the Palestinian territories, Wael Nasr El-Din, attended the funeral of the Palestinian teenager allegedly killed by Israeli extremists this weekend and there is talk of some kind of Egypt-brokered deal happening. Hamas is certainly not a natural ally for Egypt's new government, but, as Palestinian political scientist Ali Jarbawi noted in an op-ed for the New York Times, Sissi does appear to be trying to move his foreign policy away from U.S. interests into a more independent direction. More support for Palestinian causes may be a way for him to show Egypt's geopolitical clout in the face of other regional giants such as Turkey and Iran.
Would Morsi have been able to defuse the current tensions between the Israelis and the Palestinians? Perhaps not – this situation is different from the one in 2012 and arguably far more complicated. But it's hard to deny that with the military coup that ousted Morsi, one of the glimmers of hope in Middle East diplomacy appears to have been extinguished just before we needed it most. And we're still not entirely sure what has replaced it.

*Adam Taylor writes about foreign affairs for The Washington Post. Originally from London, he studied at the University of Manchester and Columbia University


Sunday, July 6, 2014

Alastair Campbell from the Iraqi Lie To the Destruction of Egypt


Introduction by: Mohamed Kamel

This is not a fictional story nor a point of view illustrated in an article.  This is the realty of a new Egypt that is been created by Jehan Sadat entourage, inherited by the Mubarak Family. This regime orchestrated the removal of Mubarak and the destruction of the revolution and one year of a false dream in democracy.

The real engineer of this mass killing and the destruction of Egypt is unknown and will not be known for 10s of years.  But the puppet in this is El-Sisi and the financers are UAE and SA. Executed on the ground by the mislead Egyptians, planed by the engineer of Iraq’s lie of having Weapons of Mass Destruction, Alastair Campbell.

I suggest you read these articles:    

1)
Who is Alastair Campbell?
Iraq War
In the run-up to the Iraq War Campbell was involved in the preparation and release of the "September Dossier" in September 2002 and the "Iraq Dossier" (or "Dodgy Dossier") in February 2003. These documents argued the case for concern over possible weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) in Iraq. Both have been criticised as overstating or distorting the actual intelligence findings. Subsequent investigation revealed that the September Dossier had been altered, on Campbell's orders, to be consistent with a speech given by George W. Bush and statements by other United States officials. On 9 September 2002, Campbell sent a memo to John Scarlett, the chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, in which Campbell directed that the British dossier be "one that complements rather than conflicts with" the US claims.[18]
Later in 2003, commenting on WMDs in Iraq he said, "Come on, you don't seriously think we won't find anything?".[19] He resigned in August 2003 during the Hutton Inquiry into the death of David Kelly. Kelly's view that the government exaggerated the Iraqi threat in the Iraq Dossier, told to BBC journalists Andrew Gilligan and Susan Watts, had led to Campbell battling with the BBC. When Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon revealed to Campbell that Dr Kelly had talked to the BBC, Campbell had then decided, in his own words, to use this fact to "fuck Gilligan".[20] The counsel for the Kelly family said to Lord Hutton: 'The family invite the inquiry to find that the government made a deliberate decision to use Dr Kelly as a pawn as part of its strategy in its battle with the BBC

2)
Alastair Campbell: Egypt hasn’t paid me a penny [But UAE did]

3)
Former spin doctor Alastair Campbell meets Egyptian regime blamed for 1,000 deaths - weeks after Blair gives staunch backing to its coup leader ahead of election

4)
Tony Blair and his former spin doctor Alistair Campbell accused of propping up the mass-murdering regime of Egypt's General Sisi

5)
Tony Blair to advise Egypt president Sisi on economic reform

6)
Regarding the Blair’s Project in Egypt


Egypt's Copts may soon regret supporting Sisi

by: Joseph Fahim*


http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/07/egypt-coptic-christians-sisi-secular-islamist.html#

Most Coptic Christians will tell you that anything is better than the Muslim Brotherhood. Thus, the unequivocal support for current President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi among Copts was no surprise. But now with the devastating curb of freedom of expression and the widespread crackdown on journalists and activists, the Coptic Orthodox Church’s support for the government’s post-June 30 Revolution policies may prove to be a grave miscalculation.
too, are not safe from the new government’s oppressive measures. Two weeks ago, a 23-year-old Coptic teacher was sentenced to prison for six months for insulting Islam. On June 23, a Christian convert reporter was sentenced to five years in prison for allegedly reporting false information about discrimination against Copts. The following day, a 29-year-old Copt from Upper Egypt was given a five-year prison sentence for liking a Facebook page put up by a group of Christian converts — so much for the secular utopia we conjured in our imagination.
The Coptic push for a secular Egypt stemmed largely from the fear of Islamists. The failed Mohammed Morsi administration may have not taken direct action toward minority groups, but for many Copts their policies and statements suggested that it was only a matter of time before wide-scale, concrete laws were put into place. The empowerment of radical religious leaders and fundamentalist groups after Morsi’s election in June 2012 provoked fear among Egypt’s 10 million Copts, who felt more threatened than at any time in recent history.
The debilitating fears were well-justified: Marginalization of Copts from political life was expected to increase, sectarian clashes were already on the rise and hate speech grew rife at the time. Most of all, the unprecedented infiltration of religion into every aspect of political and public life caused the alienation of Copts on a scale unseen since the banishment of Pope Shenouda III by Anwar Sadat in 1981.
Then the June 30 Revolution happened and suddenly Copts were emancipated from the foreboding Islamist rule. For nearly all Copts I know, June 30 had a bigger significance than the Muslim Brotherhood detractors and liberals alike. It was a renewal of hope, a promise of a secular Egypt where political Islam will never have a say again. The then-Field Marshall Sisi was no mere military leader; he was the great savior.
A month and a half later, all hope was dashed to pieces. On Aug. 14, 2013, and for the next couple of days, approximately 1,000 people were killed in police raids on Brotherhood protesters. By then, Egypt’s former rulers were now framed as the No. 1 enemy of the nation, demonized by every media outlet in the country. The Coptic media, which has grown astronomically in popularity among middle-aged and elderly Christians over the past three years, jumped on the bandwagon, promoting the government discourse that was also embraced by state and independent media alike and distorting facts. 
The Coptic Orthodox Church watched the bloodshed and did nothing. Never has the church at any stage condemned what happened in Rabia al-Adawiya, bemoaning instead the widespread church burning by Brotherhood supporters and refusing to acknowledge the gravity of what happened on Aug. 14. The burning of the churches, as horrific, despicable and absurd as it was, still did not substantiate the position of the church toward Rabia.
In his last days, Pope Shenouda III was heavily criticized for siding with the ruling Mubarak family, for supporting an administration responsible for all Coptic woes. His successor, Pope Tawadros II, suggested a change of direction when he took office in November 2012. He initially refrained from getting involved in politics, preferring to focus primarily on matters of the spirit. That proved to be short-lived.
In a TV interview broadcast prior to the presidential elections, the pope dismissed the discussion of human rights, asserting that the “Western reports” about said subjects were “inaccurate.” In various other statements, he stressed the importance of restoring security and advocated the "war on terror," disregarding the blatant and widely reported violations on political and human rights activists, journalists and the regime’s critics.
While not explicitly endorsing Sisi’s candidacy, the church’s patriarch expressed on more than one occasion that the former minister of defense was the right man to lead Egypt at such a precarious stage, while calling the Arab Spring “the Arab Winter” that was engineered by “malicious motives.” He openly encouraged the church’s followers to vote in favor of the last constitutional amendments in a video message released online in January.
On paper, the church’s official position was one of impartiality, but in reality, its unhidden stance was adopted and implemented on the ground locally and abroad. In the United States, Canada and Australia, several Coptic churches provided buses for their worshippers — some of whom have not been to Egypt for decades — to vote for both the constitutional amendments and presidential elections, implicitly indicating what and whom to vote for.
Coptic media followed suit, albeit in a more abrasive fashion. Support for the "yes" vote and Sisi was strongly propagated by TV channels such as CTV and El Karma, stressing that a "no" vote was associated with the Muslim Brotherhood and constantly ridiculing Hamdeen Sabahi’s candidacy. The Muslim Brotherhood remained the biggest threat to Copts and only Sisi could eradicate it once and for all, the Coptic media bluntly stressed day after day, writing off any opinions deviating from this course.
The January 25 Revolution's narrative and the destructive role of the military is being modulated and rewritten from scratch. When asked in June about the deadly Maspero demonstrations where 25 Coptic protesters were killed in cold blood by the army, Bishop Pola said that “we should forget about what happened in the past for the sake of the nation,” acknowledging in another interview also in June that the church did mobilize its populace to vote for Sisi. “We’re not playing politics,” he said in the later interview, “we’re playing a patriotic role.”
A year after June 30, Egypt has returned to square one. According to Wiki Thawra, an initiative created by the Egyptian Center for Social and Economic Rights (ECSER), more than 40,000 arrests have been made since Morsi’s overthrow, journalists have been prosecutedartists have been censored, opposition voices have been violently silenced, dissented politicians have been witch-hunted, the Mubarak regime has successfully reassembled itself, institutional corruption has grown more rampant, the country has descended into further chaos and fear has become the prevailing sentiment of the day. Democracy seems like nothing but a pipe dream: elusive, distant and unattainable. The church has decided to support a candidate with no political program and unknown economic agenda, choosing to champion the same figures and system that oppressed us before.
But as the recent arrests and sentences of Copts shows, the Coptic Orthodox Church may soon realize that the civil liberties it chose to discard, the bloodshed it opted to ignore and the despotic establishment it continues to back will be the basis for the further suffering of its own people.

* Joseph Fahim is a film critic and programmer from Egypt. He is the chief programmer of the Cairo International Film Festival. His articles have been published in Al Jazeera, The National, Variety Arabia, American Theater and Culture among other publications. His film reviews are currently published in British film magazine Vérité, and he has contributed to various books, including Dubai International Film Festival's Cinema of Passion and the German book, The Arab World. He was the arts and culture editor of Daily News Egypt for seven years. 

Thursday, July 3, 2014

ECCD Statement on the Anniversary of Egypt's Bloody Coup of July 2013

Ottawa, July 3, 2014
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ECCD Statement on the Anniversary of Egypt's Bloody Coup of July 2013
July 3rd marks the first anniversary of the military coup that overthrew the democratically elected Egyptian president, Mohamed Morsi.  The past year has been a nightmare, thousands died in the Rabaa and Alnadha massacres, the worst incidents of repressive violence in modern Egyptian history. Dissent has been crushed, including mass killings, jailing of journalists, rape and torture of detainees, and mass death sentencing against regime opponents. Abdel Fatah el-Sisi, the coup leader, stepped down from his post as the minister of defense and installed himself as president in an ‘election’ where he received 97 per cent of the low voter turnout.
Canadian Citizen Mohamed Fahmy received a seven year sentence for being Aljazeera Bureau Chief for three months prior to his unlawful imprisonment.  The verdict and the bizarre trial that preceded it sparked international outrage, while Canada stayed silent.  Fahmy chose not to appeal his verdict as it would be entertaining “ their theatrical performance aka "trial", as he recently tweeted.  Khaled Al-Qazzaz, Canadian resident and husband of Canadian born wife Sarah Attia, has been jailed without a charge for a full year.
Canada was the first major western country to call what happened in Egypt on July 3rd 2013 a coup.  Shortly after, and in an incredible about face, the Conservative government refused to condemn the anti-democratic coup in Egypt.  Mr. Baird, Canada’s foreign minister, visited Egypt prior to the staged presidential election.  "Mr. Baird endorsed an illegitimate regime of terror", said Samaa Elibyari, a member of the Egyptian Canadian Coalition for Democracy (ECCD).  Incredibly Canada became one of the first Western countries to support El-Sisi’s self-installation to presidency and described it as “a key step along Egypt’s path to democracy.”, as Minister Baird commented on the sham presidential election.

“The Conservative government has betrayed its long standing commitment to supporting democracy, human rights, and freedom of the press”, said Ehab Lotayef, the Chairman of ECCD.  Mr. Baird has ignored all ECCD requests for a meeting to discuss Canada’s foreign policy in Egypt, a position that Mr. Lotayef perceives to “undermine Canadian citizens’ right to directly communicate their concerns to their elected officials.”
On the anniversary of the bloodiest coup in Egypt’s history, The Egyptian Canadian Coalition for Democracy calls upon the Conservative government and our elected officials to discontinue endorsing general El-sisi and the Military Junta’s regime of terror.  ECCD calls upon the government to forcefully demand an immediate restoration of true civilian democracy, the revocation of all politically motivated jail sentences, and the immediate release of Mohamed Fahmy, Khaled Al-Qazzaz, and all the Egyptian and foreign nationals unlawfully jailed in the most horrific conditions in Egyptian prisons. July 3rd marks the first anniversary of the military coup that overthrew the democratically elected Egyptian president, Mohamed Morsi.  The past year has been a nightmare, thousands died in the Rabaa and Alnadha massacres, the worst incidents of repressive violence in modern Egyptian history. Dissent has been crushed, including mass killings, jailing of journalists, rape and torture of detainees, and mass death sentencing against regime opponents. Abdel Fatah el-Sisi, the coup leader, stepped down from his post as the minister of defense and installed himself as president in an ‘election’ where he received 97 per cent of the low voter turnout.

The Egyptian Canadian Coalition for Democracy
For more information:
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http://www.clker.com/cliparts/0/f/c/2/1195445181899094722molumen_phone_icon.svg.med.png Ehab Lotayef: (514) 941-9792

Toronto: 
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Montreal: 
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Québec City: 
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Vancouver: 
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Calgary: 
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Kingston: 
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About ECCDEgyptian Canadian Coalition for Democracy (ECCD) is a politically independent, non-affiliated pan Canadian organization with chapters in Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto, Quebec City, Hamilton, Winnipeg, Regina, Calgary, Vancouver, Kingston, and St. John, which advocates for democracy and human rights in Egypt.


Tuesday, July 1, 2014

C'est pourquoi nous rassemblons devant le consulat égyptien, le jeudi 3 Juillet à 17h30

[Français suive l'anglais et l'arabe,العربية تلى الإنجليزية]

C'est pourquoi nous rassemblons devant le consulat égyptien, le jeudi 3 Juillet à 17h30

It is a year since the bloody coup took place in Egypt. A year of killing, massacres and thousands of unjustified detentions. On the anniversary of the coup, the Egyptian Canadian Coalition for Democracy, and the Egyptian Canadian Home Organization will hold a vigil in front of the Egyptian Consulate for freedom lovers who reject the coup and support human rights in Egypt. This is to show the continuation of our revolution, and our continued rejection of the enslavement of the Egyptian people by its own army and to demand the return of legitimacy and the path to democracy. This Thursday under the banner “The Coup Has to Leave” will meet in front of the Egyptian consulate on Thursday July 3rd, at 5:30 pm, 1000 de La Gauchetière, Montréal

عام على الانقلاب الدموي في مصر، عام من القتل والمذابح والاعتقال وانتهاك الاعراض على ارض المحروسة. في ذكرى هذا الانقلاب يدعوا التحالف المصري الكندي للدمقراطية والبيت المصري الكندي رافضي الانقلاب من مختلف البلدان ومحبي الحرية وداعمي حقوق الانسان لتجمع أمام مقر القنصلية المصرية بمونتريال، نعلن فيها استمرارا للثورة ورفضنا المستمر لاستعباد العسكر، ونطالب بعودة الشرعية وعودة مصر للمسار الديمقراطي الصحيح. معا تحت شعار "الانقلاب لابد ان يزول" نجتمع بأذن الله يوم الخميس 3 يوليو الساعة الخامسة والنصف امام مقر القنصلية المصرية بالعنوان التالي
1000 de La Gauchetière
, Montréal


C'est pourquoi nous rassemblons devant le consulat égyptien, le jeudi 3 Juillet à 17h30
Le 3 juillet 2013, la controverse qui éclate en Égypte était à propos de la décision de l’armée et si celle-ci soutient un soulèvement populaire ou un coup d'État militaire. Maintenant que une année oppressive et sanglante a passé, et le chef du coup d'État, Abdel Fattah el-Sissi est officiellement déclaré le président du pays, il n’y a aucune doute que l'Égypte va dans la direction contre-révolution.

Le 3 juillet 2013, c'est le jour lorsque le premier président égyptien démocratiquement élu, Mohamed Morsi, a été renversé par un coup d'État militaire après un an des élections présidentielles qui ont eu lieu en Égypte suite à la révolution du 25 janvier 2011. Cette date marque une grande déviation de la voie démocratique en Égypte. Le processus politique qui a suivi la révolution en 2011, a permis au peuple égyptien d'exprimer leur volonté au moins cinq fois par des élections et des référendums libres et équitables, qui ont tous été jetés par le coup d'État militaire.
Depuis le coup d'État, L’Égypte vit sous un état de terreur imposé à la population par la police et les forces armées. Des milliers de manifestants pro-démocraties pacifiques ont été tués dans plusieurs endroits, y compris la place Rabaa. Rabaa, étant aussi connue que la place Tahrir au Caire en raison de la résistance des centaines de milliers de manifestants anti-coup d'État, a connu le pire massacre de l'histoire moderne de l'Égypte en août 2013.
De plus, des dizaines de milliers de citoyens civils se sont trouvés en prison dans des conditions inhumaines, dont beaucoup parmi eux sont soupçonnés d’être torturés. Plusieurs journalistes, des militants et des figures de proue de la révolution du 25 Janvier sont détenus, soit pour leurs positions politiques ou pour étant coupables de couvrir la vague des manifestations anti-coup. Des journaux indépendants et des chaînes de télévision ont été fermés. Seuls ceux qui sont sous le contrôle de l’État ou sous le contrôle des pro-putschistes ont été laissés pour fonctionner.
Dernièrement, l’ex-chef de l'armée, Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, a démissionné de son poste militaire afin de se présenter aux élections présidentielles illégitimes crées par les autorités putschistes. Avec un très faible taux de participation des électeurs qui reflète le manque de confiance des Égyptiens à la restauration d'un processus démocratique sous un régime militaire, Sissi remporte les élections à 96%. Le résultat nous rappelle des élections sous la dictature de Moubarak.

Les autorités actuelles en Égypte répriment, emprisonnent, tuent et implantent une loi qui interdisent les manifestations pacifiques, ce qui montre aucunement l'intention de rétablir un pays libre et démocratique.