Why Sisi activists attacked after the New Zealand attack?

In the wake of an Islamist outcry of a terrorist attack on mosques in New Zealand, media leaders focused on what they saw as hatred, extremism, racism and "demonizing" the other, behind the crime of Brenton Tarant, in which 100 Muslims were killed and wounded.

In this direction, the letter written by the terrorist prior to his crime, containing extreme and racist responses to his motives, draws on texts from the radical Christian discourse steeped in the Crusades, as well as texts from the right-wing racist discourse steeped in modern populism.

But some saw that it was not only racist and extremist by the Christian discourse, but also mixed with strange statements made by Muslims, and draws the finger itself to the Islamic parties to serve the objectives related to political conflicts and power.

If the instigator of the crime is the radical Christian discourse and the racist right-wing discourse, there is another speech by Islamic organizations that contributed to the demonization of Muslims and the fabrication of a false mental image that extremists have used as an excuse to attack Muslims.

The discourse of this "demonization" is based primarily on the distortion of the Islamic heritage as a calling for killing, destruction and hatred. It also depends on the accusations of terrorism and extremism on Muslim activists. This has led many to question the role of Arab and Islamic leaders, And participating in stigmatizing Islam on the other hand.

Sisi and the Islamic heritage
According to activists, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is one of the most prominent Arab and Islamic leaders who speak about the danger of terrorism and extremism. He does not leave a religious or public occasion except to talk about the need to purify the Islamic heritage, which he describes as "fighting the world."

In the celebration of the anniversary of the birth of the Prophet in early 2015, Sisi claimed that Muslims based on a sacred intellectual heritage want to kill all those who violate them, saying "it is not reasonable thinking that we sanctify the whole nation, it is a source of concern and danger and killing and destruction in the whole world."

"It is not possible to think of texts and ideas that have been sanctified over hundreds of years, and it is difficult to get out of them so hard that they are hostile to the whole world," he said.

In an interview with CNN in September 2016, Sisi also linked Islam to extremism by saying: "Yes, it is extremism, it is really an Islamic extremism that needs to be confronted. I am a Muslim and hard on me. I very much say this but the truth. "

The fire of anger hits the sissy
With the shock of the Massacre of the Al-Nour Mosque in New Zealand and the burning of anger among Muslims, Sisi's latest warning to Muslims in the West emerged. At the Munich Security Conference in February, Sisi said he always asked European countries to monitor mosques and pay attention to what was going on inside them.

"If we meet with European partners or any other country, I tell them, please pay careful attention to what is being published in the places of worship, and do not allow the extremists and the extremists to mean ordinary people and lead them towards extremism and extremism," he said.

The activists also exchanged pictures of the Egyptian army's previous training to confront terrorism in the presence of Sisi. Surprisingly, the target of training the soldiers to attack is a mosque and soldiers around it who are preparing to break into it under the pretext of having "terrorists" inside it.

Al-Sisi's warnings from mosques in Europe Egyptian journalist Salim Azzouz considered a legal justification to reduce the punishment for the perpetrator of the massacre. "It is enough for the New Zealand criminal to say that he did what he did after warning a Muslim ruler in the largest Muslim country, Observe the mosques, so that this is a legal justification to reduce the punishment. "

Egyptian poet and journalist Mohammad Tolba Radwan also claimed responsibility for the speeches he described as "corrupt politicians such as Sisi." He uses the Western discourse on Islamic terrorism to undermine his opponents and political rivals. "The world is tired of us because we are terrorists," he said.

Syrian opposition politician Bassam Ja'ara also accused Sisi of being "a student of mosques because they are the source of terrorism."

Egyptian playwright Hossam al-Ghamri asked a legal question about the possibility of considering Sisi as a partner in the massacre for his confession of incitement against mosques.

Right-wing political activist As'ad al-Shar'i also expressed surprise at the skepticism and incitement against mosques in Europe by Muslim heads of state.

The anger over Sisi's warnings about mosques in Europe was not limited to politicians, media and activists. It spread to the leaders of the websites who poured out their anger at Sisi. The incitement from Islamic countries was the most dangerous to fuel extremism and Western racism towards the Muslim communities.