Columnist Suleiman Shafiq begins the article by writing that the Tamarod campaign has scared the Islamist groups to the point where they have developed a “phobia” over 30 June. He adds that their speeches show their fear, including Morsi’s latest speech in which he claimed that “he is prepared to go to the opposition”.
He explains that attempts like Tagarod and Ayman Nour’s effort to divide the opposition have failed. In addition, he notes there were 37 statements issued in the first week of June, with “90% [of them] holding some kind of threat, and 73% of them against Copts.”
He adds that Jihadist Ahmed Abu Samra announced: “Jihadists will declare an Islamist revolution if Morsi is removed on 30 June,” threatening a revolution similar to that of Iran’s. Abu Samra also added that they will not allow early elections, and have already formed groups to take over the governorates after Egypt becomes an Islamist emirate.
He mentions that according to a survey done by the American Embassy, many Islamist leaders have backed this idea. In addition, Shafiq claims that El-Shater used the same scare tactic when addressing the American administration to fortify the Brotherhood’s status.
Then Shafiq begins to explain possible scenarios for 30 June.
The first one is the “scarecrow” technique where Jihadists scare people, specifically Copts and women. In addition, the Jihadists would be used as a constant threat for Americans like Mubarak did.
The second scenario is the use of negotiations with the opposition or holding a referendum concerning early elections.
Shafiq mentions the statement of Ahmed Raga’e Attia, founder of squad 777 for combating international terrorism to the TV talk show Mubasher Men Al ‘asema. He confirmed that there is a Brotherhood plan to convert Sinai into an Islamist emirate and an epicentre for terrorism.
The third scenario is that the Muslim Brotherhood would divide the work between them, the Jihadists and Hamas to exploit 30 June to separate Sinai from the rest of the country. In addition, the Brotherhood would give Egyptian citizenship to 50,000 Palestinians from Hamas, and fund their acquisition of Bedouin lands. The scenario also includes the murder of Egyptian soldiers and the smuggling of army uniform to Jihadists in Sinai to carry out fake divisions within the army.
He adds that the field commander of the second army visited Sinai on the emergence of this information. Shafiq also claims that some information has surfaced of 30,000 of the Brotherhood’s militia, who are positioned on Mount Helal, wearing military police uniforms.
Shafiq goes over the number of attacks on Sinai during the past two years, and then concludes that the whole of Sinai, except Al-Arish, does not contain any Egyptian forces.
