Five Perplexing Questions

 

(1) There are documents proving that in 1928 the British embassy in Egypt transferred a large sum of money (in terms of its time) to the Brotherhood, which was founded that same year by Hassan al-Banna in the city of Ismailia.  What would make Britain do that? 

 

(2) The new regime in Egypt in 1952 carried out an investigation into the Cairo fire in January of the same year.  The investigation did not lead to anything.  Some say this was an expected result in light of what was known, in that the Cairo fire in January 1952 was a joint action between some Free Officers and the Brotherhood.  Who prevented an independent investigation of this event that paved the way for a comprehensive change in Egyptian political life? 

 

(3) Why is there no scientific study of the "Saudization of Egypt" project, which was implemented by Anwar Sadat with the payment of the King of Saudi Arabia and its head of intelligence at the time (Faisal and Kamal Adham) and locally: Othman Ahmed Othman and the Muslim Brotherhood Guide? 

 

(4) Khomeini was in France when the Shah left Tehran.  From France, Khomeini returned to Iran to start a new era in the history of the Middle East.  This is an era in which two radical forces emerged on the stage of political life in the region, representing Shiite Islamic fundamentalism and Sunni Islamic fundamentalism.  What has been the role of the West in general and France in particular in this dangerous game, whose repercussions are still raging in the Middle East and North Africa? 

 

(5) The Democratic Party in the United States and the left-wing parties in Europe have betrayed and still betray one of the pillars of their intellectual background in their (erroneous) belief that the Brotherhood is a political force (and not a terrorist gang) and that the political systems in Islamic and Arab societies can and must "contain the Brotherhood."  The secular leftist who gives legitimacy to the Brotherhood is inviting his own destruction which begs the question -- what is the truth of this extremely dangerous trend?