The Grand Egyptian Museum: Glorification of Pharaonism and Waste of Public Money
News:
Some estimates and official statements indicate that the total cost of the new Egyptian Museum amounted to between 1.2 trillion and 1.5 trillion US dollars, while 2023 statistics state that the poverty rate in Egypt exceeds 36% of the population, while 2025 statistics state that more than 60% of the population lives below the poverty line.
Comment:
The inauguration of the Grand Egyptian Museum is considered one of the most financially and ideologically failed projects adopted by the Egyptian state. From a material point of view, it is very costly, and the state will have to pay off the usurious loan returns that it borrowed from foreign and domestic banks to complete this very costly project, and all that payment will be at the expense of the Egyptians, from their labor, effort, and sweat.
It would have been better for these huge sums of money that were wasted on this failed project to be spent on vital projects that people urgently need to serve two-thirds of Egyptians who live below the poverty line, who need food, housing, medical care, education, and infrastructure.
From an intellectual and civilizational point of view, this museum reinforces the idea of tyranny and disbelief in people's minds, deludes Egyptians that they are descendants of the Pharaohs, and deceives them by saying that the Pharaonic historical era is the most brilliant in the history of Egypt, and that it is the civilization that historically preceded the civilizations of the Greeks, Persians, and Chinese, and that it will remain a source of pride for all Egyptians, as if the Egyptians are not Muslims, as if Islamic civilization does not belong to them, as if they do not read the Qur’an, and do not know the story of the drowning of Pharaoh and his soldiers because of their disbelief, arrogance, stubbornness, injustice to the people, and because of their challenge to the Prophet of God Moses, peace be upon him, and their arrogance, and making Pharaoh their supreme lord.
When some believers in Egypt, who enjoin good and forbid evil, denounced the idea of glorifying Pharaoh, they were arrested, harmed, and their image was distorted in front of the media, and the government's electronic flies were activated to undermine them, describe them with the ugliest epithets, and claim that they were inciting sedition!
Some of the fallen ones who are counted on religious bodies were also employed as rented mouthpieces, and one of those dissonant mouthpieces that the tyrant Sisi's regime used to intimidate and silence people was the so-called Hisham Rabie, who works in the Egyptian Dar al-Ifta, and who is described as the secretary of fatwas in the department. He criticized one of the museum's visitors who read Qur’anic verses in the museum that spoke about the believer from the family of Pharaoh who challenged Pharaoh and his soldiers, so they killed him because he challenged them, so he entered Paradise by striving against them with the word. This imposter, Hisham Rabie, commented on this Qur’an reader by saying: "When specific verses are selected, such as the story of Pharaoh, and recited in the Grand Egyptian Museum specifically, it carries a dangerous insinuation that this place, which includes the history and civilization of the nation, is a house of polytheism, and this direction is a great evil and impoliteness towards the Qur’an," so Hisham, who works in the Egyptian Dar al-Ifta, who is supposed to defend Islam, we find him taking pride in the Pharaonic pagan civilization, and denouncing describing it as polytheism, then others come from the regime's henchmen who have reached a degree of audacity in which they defend Pharaoh and describe him as perhaps being a believer!
These shameful positions issued by the regime's choir, which is desperately defending the greatest tyrant known to mankind, express the level of intellectual and moral degradation reached by this choir, which consists of hypocritical media figures and those who are falsely and slanderously called (religious scholars).
The establishment of such a (large) Egyptian museum will not be, for the believing Egyptians who enjoin good and forbid evil, but a new dose of anger that will explode the nation's energies on the path of revolution and change.
Written for the Central Media Office Radio of Hizb ut Tahrir
Ahmed Al-Khatwani
