Fake Protests

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Gatestone Institute:

One of the reasons democracy has not really taken roots in much of the contemporary world is that some groups still remain aligned to the status quo -- reactionary forces in our society. They apparently prefer to join a democratic system, and then invent ways to hijack its terminology and misuse its tools to destroy it from within. As such groups can be found the world over, sadly India is no exception.

 

A case in point is the protest, organized by the All India Muslim Majlis-e Mushawarat, the Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, the Association for Protection of Civil Rights and the Students Islamic Organisation of India, against the recent visit of Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to New Delhi to attend India-Africa Forum Summit.

 

The organizers said in a press statement:

 

"Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is guilty of occupying power after ousting a democratically elected legitimate government in an illegal and immoral way and is responsible for brutally killing and arresting thousands of people. It is, therefore, extremely sad that India, a bastion of democracy, has invited an anti-democracy and fascist dictator such as Sisi. This move by the government goes against the nature and will of the democracy-loving masses, and is therefore condemnable and reprehensible.

 

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"[T]he dictatorial regime of Sisi continues to wreak havoc upon the people of Egypt, with thousands killed and tens of thousands illegally detained and punished without a fair trial. The Egyptian economy is in shambles, and inflation and unemployment have reached unmanageable levels."

 

Although many of those words appear aligned with democratic values, it is not hard to see that such groups are hardly democratic. These groups have, in their statement, shown a preference for the reactionary Muslim Brotherhood at the expense of the relatively moderate Sisi regime that replaced it.