In a rare comment on a political matter.. Mohamed Hassan: Ethiopia is dragging Egypt into a war it does not want تريد

In a rare comment on the political issue in Egypt, Salafi preacher Mohamed Hassan called on Egyptians to forget their differences, stand united and support any decision taken by officials regarding the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam crisis, considering that Ethiopia is dragging Egypt into a war it does not want.

The crisis of the Renaissance Dam is in place after the tripartite negotiations between Egypt and Sudan on the one hand and Ethiopia on the other failed, and the negotiations sponsored by the African Union failed, which prompted Egypt and Sudan to resort to the UN Security Council, but many major countries contented themselves with urging all parties to return to negotiations. Sponsored by the African Union.

In a video clip circulated by the pioneers of social networking sites, Sheikh Mohamed Hassan said that Egypt did not object to the right of the Ethiopian people to the waters of the Nile, but demanded in long, patient negotiations that were wise and responsible that Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt benefit from the Nile water in a fair and just manner, but failed. All these negotiations are faced with "this Ethiopian intransigence regarding the Renaissance Dam," as he described it.

During his program on Al-Rahma channel, which he owns, Hassan accused Addis Ababa of complicating the crisis when it took a unilateral decision to start the second filling of the Renaissance Dam, without coordination, agreement or arrangement with the downstream countries, Egypt and Sudan, pointing to Ethiopia's forgetting that the Nile for Egypt is the lifeline.

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Hassan said that Ethiopia, with this stubborn management of the real, worsening crisis, is dragging Egypt into a war it does not want, adding that Egypt does not like aggression, but it responds to any aggression from its people.

He continued, "Egypt throughout history, and I do not mean Islamic history, but all human history, was not an aggressor against anyone. Read history, but Egypt was and still is a rock of truth, on which all waves of injustice, tyranny and aggression have been shattered. Egypt is the one that responded to the barbarism of the Hyksos, which is That responded to the brutality of the Tatars and the Crusades, and it was Egypt that expelled the English occupation, the French occupation and expelled the Zionist occupation from the land of Sinai.”

Since the military coup in the summer of 2013, Sheikh Muhammad Hassan - like most of the famous Salafists in Egypt - has stopped commenting on political events, except once when he defended himself and his role towards the killing of protesters in the Rabaa Al-Adawiya and Al-Nahda squares.

Hassan is one of the most famous symbols of the Salafist movement in Egypt during the last decade, and he was a supporter of the late President Mohamed Morsi, and he sought to mediate between the army and Morsi supporters before the dispersal of the Rabaa al-Adawiya and al-Nahda sit-ins on August 14, 2013, more than a month after the military coup he led The current President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi when he was Minister of Defense.