Comment on The Film Of Al-Midan/The Square/Meydan

    The film of Al Midan is a good work in terms of explaining the pre revolution term and revolution process.However on  explaining  the after revolution term, it is really not objective.

     If we consider the protests ,which took place different region’s of Egypt in 2011,aiming primarily ousting Mübarek,we can see that a lot of different groups which are Egyptians were all together.Salafi,secular,islamist,Christian and all other groups came together to provide a better future for their children. Until Mübarek was overthrowned, different groups generally achieved to find a middle ground by ignoring their differences.Thanks to all differnet groups’ sacrifices and blood they reached their prior aim, resigning of Hosni Mubarak.

      After resigning of Mubarak, most of protesters leaved from square. However, leaving Mubarak’s was only a deceptive iniciative of regime. Military government took power and they continued govern country with same constitution, same policies and same attitudes against public.Some conscious protesters understood that leaving square after resigning Mubarak was a strategical fault.They should have not leaved the square until they provide fundamental changes in constitution,institutions and mentality of management group.They understood that actually with leaving of Mubarak nothing was changed. Before army seized power, public respected to army. Even some groups thought that they achieved revolution’s aim thanks to army.Because during revolution army did not took side beside regime.

     However after took power army lost its repetition.Same violence,human rights abuse etc.,like regime’s ,was performing by military regime. A group of protesters started to inform public about this thread. They said that military regime is not different from Mubarak’s regime, they are using violence againts protesters, corruption is common among military leaders, they don’t care about Egyptian’s happiness etc.Protests against military regime has started.Along this process, hostility against Muslim Brotherhood has increased among some groups.The reasons of these anti-Muslim Brotherhood groups for being against İhvan were that they thought that Muslim Brotherhood betrayed to revolution because they cooperated with military regime.They embraced the revolution and ignored other protesters after regime was overthrowned.They used revolution as an tool for seizing power.

     I think the punch line was this separation among revolutionaries.Egyptians took the road by ignoring their all differences and achieved their goals by solidarity among themselves.The only thing that brought them these achievements was unity,togetherness of them.However after Mubarak’s leaving this solidarity gave place to separations, grudge and hate.Being an islamist party of Muslim Brotherhood was thought as an thread to Egypt.By focusing on these kind of fake threads, likeMuslim Brotherhood will bring to country sharia, Egyptians forgot the main thread and ignored their real,common thread.The real thread for all Egyptians was actually illegitimate military regime which took power without elections.

    I believe that Muslim Brotherhood opposition  was used both by military regime and external Powers for strenghtening the military’s role in Egypt’s politics. Stiring up trouble to revolution’s unity was only way to stop the awakening. Maybe it can be thougt as conspiracy theory, but this is impossible to think that external powers did not an actor in this critical term of Egypt.

    I think it is impossible to put protests for turning over Muslim Brotherhood in the same equation with protest which are against Mubarak’s regime and military regime.For this situation we are talking about a legitimate government came with public’s vote.There were some protesters who think Muslim Brotherhood government as more dangerous than Mubarak’s regime.The men with whom they counteract arm in arm against Mubarek’s regime was be seen as primary enemies  for this time.

    After the coup d’etat which overthrown the Ihvan, this time Muslim Brotherhoods take their place in Tahrir square and the same army which opened fire on anti-İhvan protesters, opened fire on Muslim Brotherhoods supporters.

     In sum ,Egypt was in a vicious circle.They came to same point, the same point with before January 25 Revolution.The results were thousands of deaths, casualties and wounded people.The worst part of this vicious circle was  that rising again the seperations among people.Moreover, this time these seperations were so deep.Even both sides, supporters of Ihvan and anti-İhvan, can be seen as responsible for their killings.

    By the way we should never ignore the wrong approaches of politicians which polarize the society.If Ihvan follow a more cooperative policy toward opposition groups and vice versa, the situation may be more recoverable.