The following clip is from a program on Egyptian television hosted by Mohamed Al-Ghiety, who is obviously not a pious or doctrinaire Muslim (it’s not clear to me whether he is considered an apostate). He discusses the recent incident involving Abdallah al-Hamamy, the Egyptian mujahid who allegedly attacked soldiers with a machete a few days ago near the Louvre. Mr. al-Hamamy’s father has been in the news in the past two days after talking to media reporters.
In this segment Mr. Al-Ghiety explains why the elder al-Hamamy can say with absolute honesty that his son could not possibly be guilty of such an attack, that he is in fact a good boy.
Many thanks to Sandra Solomon for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:
Transcript:
| 00:00 | Today, one of the (French) MPs | |
| 00:04 | His name is François Mollaz, he wrote… | |
| 00:07 | from reports from previous attacks, | |
| 00:12 | based on his word, on the previous attacks | |
| 00:16 | he is a suspect in four previous attacks. Now I need to know how he was a suspect. He was staying… | |
| 00:20 | In the UAE (Emirates), working. They condemned … | |
| 00:24 | Reports | |
| 00:28 | say he was a conscript from Al Mansura, with the Islamic State (ISIS). | |
| 00:32 | I did another episode last week, and I had | |
| 00:36 | the lawyer Khalid Al Bri and a guy who came back from the Islamic State… | |
| 00:40 | in Libya. And they said “in the Dakahlia | |
| 00:44 | Delta (area of Egypt) ISIS is trying to conscript the attacker, by amazing temptations… | |
| 00:48 | Some of them travel and some of them are sleeper cells who have been arrested… | |
| 00:52 | and are still under investigation. So, the Dakahlia and the Western area (of Egypt) | |
| 00:56 | is an area where they recruit people for the Islamic State… | |
| 01:00 | The question is, was Abdullah al-Hamamy, who committed the Louvre attack, a soldier for ISIS? | |
| 01:04 | They sent him to | |
| 01:08 | the Emirates, to Paris to commit a terror attack for the Islamic State. | |
| 01:12 | Some say yes. | |
| 01:16 | We have information that this guy, he visited Turkey many times for | |
| 01:20 | As a tourist, and he stayed there | |
| 01:24 | a week and he received orders from leaders… | |
| 01:28 | from a Muslim Brotherhood member (Ikhwan), an Egyptian doctor who lives in Turkey. | |
| 01:32 | Information (on Abdullah el-H.): worked with terrorist cell, including Egyptians, Tunisians, Syrians… | |
| 01:36 | As a cover story, he worked for a company in Dubai. | |
| 01:40 | And the one who helped him get the cover story job is a Muslim Brotherhood member. | |
| 01:45 | I’m telling the Emirates… Be careful. Be careful. It’s the Muslim Brotherhood, | |
| 01:48 | and you are the first people who discovered a huge infiltration in education from the Muslim Brotherhood. | |
| 01:52 | And many people have been charged and convicted and sentenced to many years in jail. | |
| 01:56 | The businesses in the Emirates have a lot of Muslim Brotherhood control, and they hire people… | |
| 02:00 | from the Islamic State. | |
| 02:04 | It’s strange that Abdullah al-Hamamy’s father, a retired police lieutenant… | |
| 02:08 | and his brother… | |
| 02:13 | who is still a police officer, | |
| 02:17 | and they told me that his brother is in important secret intelligence… | |
| 02:21 | Allah! The father, the retired police Lieutenant, | |
| 02:25 | we recorded with his father. (is the video ready Mr. Fikri?) | |
| 02:33 | I need the video… | |
| 02:37 | The father, I felt he had been hit on the head. | |
| 02:41 | And you will see the video right now. | |
| 02:45 | And he cannot believe it and is in denial. | |
| 02:49 | And this denial | |
| 02:53 | when a crisis happens to anyone… | |
| 02:57 | the first reaction is to deny to deny. “I cannot believe it.” | |
| 03:01 | I feel the father is reacting like this. Because when his son, | |
| 03:05 | who is still living with him and got married a year ago, | |
| 03:09 | and he had kids. —And then all of a sudden my son is a terrorist!? | |
| 03:14 | All of a sudden he commits a terror attack, and then all of a sudden the whole world… | |
| 03:17 | media, the national security and the global intelligence apparatus | |
| 03:21 | …and they are investigating me and the family. | |
| 03:25 | This is the situation with the father right now. | |
| 03:29 | But I want to tell (the father): when you study any guy | |
| 03:36 | who is a member of any terrorist group, you will find… | |
| 03:40 | you will find everything is very tidy. | |
| 03:44 | He (the father) said his son wore jeans, had a modern look of facial hair, | |
| 03:48 | …and our house is modern. And his room doesn’t have… | |
| 03:52 | Allah! (expression of surprise) You have your son, he is eating and drinking with you, and | |
| 03:55 | you don’t know anything about him? —And that’s what happened. | |
| 04:00 | What happened with many people. They were surprised that their kids have been recruited | |
| 04:04 | to be a member of a terrorist group. | |
| 04:08 | A part of the Muslim Brotherhood code is that you’re not supposed to tell your family you’re a member. | |
| 04:12 | Unless your family is a Brotherhood family. | |
| 04:16 | This is a part of the Charter of ten or twenty rules that Hassan al-Banna, (founder) made for the Ikhwan. | |
| 04:20 | So how about if he was in an even more secret terrorist group like the Islamic State? | |
| 04:29 | I am talking to the father now, didn’t you read his tweets? Didn’t you see his page? | |
| 04:33 | He is calling everyone a Kafir! (infidel) and this is in his private social media accounts! | |
| 04:41 | Give me his picture? | |
| 04:45 | Where is the video? |
Like father like son. Islam is a mental disorder. If it infects whole nations and cultures what’s the stretch that it infects the family top to bottom.
Denial is not just a river in Egypt. Its a huge part of the culture. Even today, Mohammid Atta’s father thinks his son didn’t do 9/11.