According to Egyptian newspaper
El Watan,
a group of Egyptian lawyers has submitted a complaint charging U.S.
president Barrack Hussein Obama with crimes against humanity at the
International Criminal Court.
The complaint charges Obama of being an accessory to the Muslim
Brotherhood, which incited widespread violence in Egypt both before and
after the June 30 Revolution.
Along with Obama, the complaint reproduced by El Watan mentions
several Brotherhood members by name, beginning with the leader of the
organization Muhammad Badie, and other top ranking leaders such as
Mohamed al-Beltagy, Essam al-Erian, and Safwat Hegazi, adding that
“Obama cooperated, incited, and assisted the armed elements of the
Muslim Brotherhood in the commission of crimes against humanity in the
period from 3/7/2013-8/18/2013, in the Arab Republic of Egypt.”
According to the published text, the complaint begins by quoting Article 7/1 of the
Statute of the International Criminal Court, titled “Crimes against humanity,” which is reproduced below:
Article 7
Crimes against humanity
1. For the purpose of this Statute, “crime against humanity” means
any of the following acts when committed as part of a widespread or
systematic attack directed against any civilian population, with
knowledge of the attack:
(a) Murder;
(b) Extermination;
(c) Enslavement;
(d) Deportation or forcible transfer of population;
(e) Imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty in violation of fundamental rules of international law;
(f) Torture;
(g) Rape, sexual slavery, enforced prostitution, forced pregnancy, enforced
sterilization, or any other form of sexual violence of comparable gravity;
(h) Persecution against any identifiable group or collectivity on political, racial,
national, ethnic, cultural, religious, gender as defined in paragraph 3, or other
grounds that are universally recognized as impermissible under international
law, in connection with any act referred to in this paragraph or any crime
within the jurisdiction of the Court;
(i) Enforced disappearance of persons;
(j) The crime of apartheid;
(k) Other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing
great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical
health.
Next, the complaint shows how Muslim Brotherhood leadership violated
some of the above definitions, for example, by torturing, mutilating,
raping, and killing Egyptians in their “sit in” camps (first reported
here),
with a highlight on the role the Brotherhood played in inciting
violence and the killing of peaceful protesters around Itthadiya Palace
back in December.
Above and beyond the accusations of crimes against humanity that the
lawyer-drafted complaint cited by El Watan levels against the
Brotherhood, one need only look to the fate of Egypt’s Christian
minority, who were especially targeted by the Muslim Brotherhood—and
thus, by extension, their supporter, Obama—to see numerous examples of
nearly every aforementioned definition of crimes against humanity, as
follows:
Religious Persecution and Apartheid (see h and j)
Right after Morsi was ousted, the Muslim Brotherhood, including its
supreme leader, Muhammad Badie, and its spiritual leader, Sheikh Yusuf
Qaradawi, as well as several of the other Brotherhood members mentioned
in the complaint, publicly scapegoated the Christian minority for daring
to support the popular June 30 Revolution (that is, for acting like
equal citizens as opposed to cowed
dhimmis as required by Islamic
law). The aftermath of the atrocities committed against the Copts are
well known (to those who do not exclusively rely on the so-called
mainstream media), and include the torching, destroying, and plundering
of at some
85 churches, some of which were ancient. Islam’s back flag was raised above some churches;
anti-Christian graffiti littered the sides of other churches and Coptic homes.
Murder and Extermination (see a and b)
Among many others to be murdered in response to Brotherhood-incitement against the Copts, a
ten-year-old girl was shot and killed while walking back from Bible class. In the Sinai, a young
Coptic priest was shot dead in
front of his church, while the body of another Copt was found mutilated
and beheaded. Four other Christians were slaughtered by Muslims in
Luxor province. Most recently, a church wedding was attacked, leaving,
among others,
two girls, aged eight and twelve, dead and riddled with bullets.
As for “extermination,” the Muslim Brotherhood and its supporters have long been
threatening the Copts
with annihilation if they ever opposed them. Back in December 2012,
Safwat Hegazi (a leading Brotherhood member named in the complaint,
publicly declared during a Brotherhood rally:
A message to the church of Egypt, from an Egyptian
Muslim: I tell the church—by Allah, and again, by Allah—if you conspire
and unite with the remnants [opposition] to bring Morsi down, that will
be another matter [screams of "Allah Akbar!" followed by chants of "With
our soul, with our blood, we give to you, O Islam!"]… [T]here are red
lines—and our red line is the legitimacy of Dr. Muhammad Morsi. Whoever
splashes water on it, we will splash blood on him” [followed by more
wild shouts of "Allah Akbar!"]
Around the same time, and more to the point, Dr. Wagdi Ghoneim—another vocal Brotherhood agitator who earlier
praised Allah for the death of the late Coptic Pope Shenouda,
cursing him to hell and damnation in a video he posted on YouTube—made another video telling Egypt’s Christians:
You are playing with fire in Egypt, I swear, the first
people to be burned by the fire are you [Copts].” … The day
Egyptians—and I don’t even mean the Muslim Brotherhood or Salafis,
regular Egyptians—feel that you are against them, you will be wiped off
the face of the earth. I’m warning you now: do not play with fire!… What
do you think—that America will protect you? Let’s be very clear,
America will not protect you. If so, it would have protected the
Christians of Iraq when they were being butchered!
Ghoneim’s words have proven prophetic—an indicator that this Egyptian
hatemongering sheikh, who was expelled under Hosni Mubarak, knows the
conduct of America’s leadership better than most Americans. Along with
Iraq’s and Egypt’s Christians, he could have mentioned the Christians of
Syria as well, who are being decimated thanks to Obama’s support for
al-Qaeda and other Islamic terrorists, AKA, “freedom fighters.”
Deportation, Extortion, Kidnapping, and General Abuse of Copts (see c, d, e, f, g, and i)
Since the Muslim Brotherhood publicly denounced the Copts, entire
towns and villages have been emptied of Christians—for example, more
than 100 Christian families from El Arish. After mentioning the mass
destruction of churches during
a recent conference,
and speaking of a different incident, Dr. Sherif Doss, an Egyptian
activist, said, “But worst of all, about 140 families were evicted from
their own homes; and worse still is that, not only were they thrown out
of their houses, but their shops and properties were robbed and
destroyed… General Sisi has promised to rebuild the churches and this
takes time to be done. But we can’t wait all that time for those people
destitute and in the streets, with no place to live and nowhere to
work…. These people are in a very bad condition. If you go and see these
villages, you will be amazed—it is as if a nuclear bomb exploded there.
People burned and plundered their homes without mercy.”
Similarly, Muslim Brotherhood supporters are extorting Copts, rationalized in the context of
making them pay jizya—the
money, or tribute, that conquered non-Muslims historically had to pay
to their Islamic overlords “with willing submission and while feeling
themselves subdued” to safeguard their existence, as indicated in Koran
9:29. For instance, the roughly 15,000 Christian Copts of Dalga village
in south Minya province were recently forced to pay
jizya. In
some cases, those not able to pay were attacked, their wives and
children beaten and/or kidnapped. As a result, some 40 Christian
families had fled Dalga, joining the
ever growing list of displaced Christians in the Middle East.
Days before the June 30 Revolution,
letters addressed to the Copts threatened them not to join the protests
against Morsi, otherwise their “businesses, cars, homes, schools, and
churches” might “catch fire”—which of course they all did. The message
concluded by saying “If you are not worried about any of these, then
worry about your children and your homes.”
Such threats, as mentioned, were hardly limited to anonymous
letters. During a TV interview, Sheikh Essam Abdulamek, a then member
of parliament’s Shura Council, warned Egypt’s Christians against
participating in the June 30 Revolution against Morsi, threatening them
by saying “
Do not sacrifice your children” since “general Muslim opinion will not be silent about the ousting of the president [Morsi].”
And the children of Copts have certainly been targeted—both during
and after Morsi’s tenure. Some, especially young girls, are regularly
abducted, raped, and shamed into converting to Islam and “marrying”
their rapists. Coptic boys have increasingly been abducted from the
doorsteps of their churches and held for ransom. Recently, a 6-year-old
Christian boy was murdered by his kidnapper—
after the boy’s family paid the ransom. (Read more about the
jihad on Egypt’s Christian children.)
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In short, by simply focusing on the plight of Egypt’s Christians,
almost every criterion found under the category of “crimes against
humanity”—including murder, extermination, deportation, torture, rape,
disappearance, apartheid and religious persecution—are met.
Only one is necessary for the charge to stick.
As for the Obama administration’s support for the Brotherhood, if
most Americans are clueless or indifferent about it, average Egyptians
have long known and resented it—hence the many large placards and signs
held during the June 30 Revolution calling on Obama to stop supporting
terrorism and calling on Americans to wake up.
One need only follow the words and deeds of
Anne Patterson,
John McCain, Lindsay Graham,
Hillary Clinton, et. al. to know that the U.S president is a firm supporter of the crimes-against-humanity-committing Muslim Brotherhood.
Of course, whatever the merits of El Watan’s report—here is another
English-language article
talking about apparently a different complaint of crimes against
humanity leveled against Obama by Coptic activists—all these complaints
seem futile, as the U.S. is not a signatory to the International
Criminal Court.
However, all technicalities aside, the facts are clear: by any
definition, the Muslim Brotherhood and its supporters have committed
numerous crimes against humanity in Egypt, especially in the context of
the Christian Copts; and by its ongoing support for the Brotherhood, the
Obama administration
is complicit. Remember this next time the
Obama administration cites concerns about “human rights” violations as
reason to involve the U.S. in war—as it
recently tried to do in Syria, again, to support more Islamic terrorists who are committing even worse crimes against humanity.
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