Moataz Abdel Fattah; Egyptian Academic Believes in "Sisi Mission" and Preaches Military Ideas

With the outbreak of the January 25, 2011 revolution, and the overthrow of the rule of the late Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, after 30 years in power, the face of Egypt's political map changed.

The new leaders of the Republic from the Military Council were keen to attract the youth who carried out the revolution and was its main pillar. 

Here appeared the role of certain men used by the military in that mission, led by the Egyptian academic Al-Mu'taz Bellah Abdel Fattah, who was unknown at the time.

As a political consultant, Abdel Fattah was appointed by Dr. Essam Sharaf, the first prime minister after the revolution, when he was not 39 years old yet.

Abdel Fattah sequenced in the corridors of power and held many political and academic positions, but he was always keen to stick to the thread of proximity to the regime.

That concern for proximity to power seemed remarkable after the military coup that hit Egypt on July 3, 2013, led by army commander Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

Abdel Fattah then preached al-Sisi as president and savior of Egypt, claiming, and even matched him on other issues, including the issue of the fateful Renaissance Dam.

Abdel Fattah overlooked the sins and mistakes of the regime's president, turning him into a hero and a genius. 

 

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The escalating Renaissance Dam crisis, and Ethiopia's announcement of the second filling of the dam reservoir, worried Egyptians that it was warning of serious consequences for more than 100 million Egyptians.

But Sisi was then making his famous speech on July 15, 2021, from the heart of Cairo International Stadium, about the dam problem.

Addressing the crowd, he said in the Egyptian dialect: "No nonsense" and the purpose of the word "words that do not benefit or rumors".

Although the sentence caused controversy and anger, it was considered to be a mockery of the Egyptian people, but Egyptian academic Moataz Allah Abdel Fattah had another opinion.

"Without complicated words: I don't just love the president, not only do I respect him, but I am assured that God sent him to our country," he wrote the next day in a Twitter post.

He added: "I think it is the embodiment of the success of the revolutions 25 and 30. Finally, a leader befitting Egypt."

The tweet received reprehensible reactions, and was widely circulated, to infer the extent to which the Egyptian politician, in front of the head of power, was over-praised.

Activist Abdul Hafiz Khalifa tweeted: "What a loss of doctorate, science and the fatigue of the years. How can reason, logic, politics and even self-respect be correct to utter such a phrase."

"Our Lord sent him to our country," he said, commenting, "As if he were a prophet of God sent by God to the people of Egypt."

Abdel Fattah spoke with the same logic on July 7, 2021, using populist terms, suggesting that Sisi was an envoy from God and recruited by selection from other human beings.

He tweeted: "Whoever God has recruited to protect Egypt from collapse, God will recruit him to protect Egypt from blackmailing Ethiopia and those with it, and from provoking the Brotherhood and those with them."

This presentation was also followed by a sharp attack on the ideas and person of Abdel Fattah, and Egyptian activist Ismail Ahmed asked: "This is your point of view, Dr. Moataz."

He added: "But can you honestly say who subjected us to the blackmail of Ethiopia in the first place? He signed an agreement unilaterally, in which no one was consulted, and the results were disastrous for the people of Egypt."

"Then you say God save Egypt from Ethiopians blackmailing, allow me your point of view is disrupted," the activist said.

A Threatening Rise 

The exciting presentation of the Egyptian academic sheds light on his first biography and the beginning of his ascent, as he was born on August 12, 1972, and ranked first in the country in the high school (literary department) in 1989. 

Despite his superiority, he went through a strange incident, Egyptian writer Mehdi Mubarak reported in an article in the local newspaper Al-Gate on July 14, 2015.

Mubarak addressed him, saying: Go back to your memory in 1989, Moataz began a journey of superiority, and he was addicted to conservation, and the newspapers published his image as the owner of the center (first - literary) in the high school.

He added: "Student Moataz Allah Mohammed. The original face of Moataz Abdel Fattah, I quote what one of his fellow activists wrote on Facebook about the case of the donkey student, referring to the description of one of his colleagues”.

He asked: "What does he think? Does he think basically? Why did he become a politician of all time, a passing adviser to the presidents, with a thousand stories to tell?”

He then stated: "When the announcer asked him (How does it feel to be the first in the Republic?) He left the question, and he replied, "I thank Mr. President Hosni Mubarak and Mother Suzan (Mubarak’s wife)".

"I always used to see President Mubarak's speeches on television, and last year the presidential elections went down," he said, addressing the authorities early. 

"After nearly 20 years, I saw that boy a lot on satellite TV after he became important, and he continued to practice his hobby (Flattering the governor) very professionally every day," he said.

Moataz continued his academic excellence, earning a Master of Political Science from Cairo University, then a Master of Economics and a Doctorate in Political Science from America.

He then ran the "Studies of Islam and the Middle East" unit at the University of Michigan in America.

The Egyptian academic writes a weekly article in the Egyptian newspaper Al-Shorouk, which belongs to the regime, and has numerous books and research published in English and Arabic.

 

The Theory of "The Holed" 

The academic and scientific rise of the Egyptian professor of political science did not deter him from putting forward strange theories, which provoked widespread ridicule, in many crucial and complex issues for his country. 

For example, on March 23, 2021, he tweeted about the GERD dam crisis and his expectations of how Egypt would deal with it.

"Egypt will make a hole in the dam, and this (this) is very enough," he said in a tweet that provoked a wave of ridicule and disapproval from his followers.

The other position was his explanation and defense of the position of the Sisi regime, which supports former U.S. President Donald Trump, in the U.S. election race.

The political science professor posted a video and then a tweet on November 6, 2020, writing, "What's the difference between Biden and Trump in dealing with Egypt?"

"Biden will play with our noses and our ears, but he will not return the Muslim Brotherhood."

Moataz takes an anti-Islamist stance, consistent with Sisi's approach to their removal and annihilation, as he spoke of in a television interview on January 31, 2021.

"In 10 years, the Egyptian state has rid itself of the biggest obstacle to democracy in Egypt, namely, the traffickers of religion," he said in an interview with MBC Egypt.

"There are good growth rates, there is a strong state, not hostile to other countries, I’m a supporter of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and I want him to complete it by 2030," he said.