2025-08-13
Al-Raya Newspaper:Privatization of Egyptian Army Companies Under the Supervision of Companies Linked to the Occupation
A Crime Against the Nation and a Betrayal of Trust
In a move that reveals the extent of the decline reached by the ruling regimes in Muslim countries, Egypt has announced the start of privatization of five army-owned companies, under the supervision of international consulting firms with proven direct links to the Jewish entity and its army. This step is not merely an economic decision taken in the context of market and governance policies as promoted, but in reality, it is a described betrayal, a waste of the nation's security and capabilities, and a surrender of the keys to its economic and strategic sovereignty to its enemies who have usurped its land and oppressed its people.
Privatization itself, as an economic approach that enables individuals and companies to control wealth and public utilities, contradicts the provisions of Islam. Ownership in Islam is divided into three types: individual, public, and state ownership. What falls under the category of public property, such as subsurface resources, water, energy, and public roads, cannot be owned by individuals or private companies under any circumstances.
The companies of the National Service Projects Organization are not merely independent economic entities, but rather active military arms within the army system, used to secure its needs, provide independent funding for it (as the regime claims), and strengthen its dominance over the vital joints of the economy. Therefore, handing over these companies to investors from the private sector, under the supervision of foreign companies with ties to the Jewish entity, is tantamount to dismantling the army's capabilities and handing over its sensitive files to the enemies of the nation.
What is worrying is that the supervision of this process has been entrusted to consulting firms that have proven to be commercially and security active within the usurping entity, including the Boston Consulting Group, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Grant Thornton. It is sufficient to point out that Talia Gazit, who is in charge of digital transformation and cybersecurity at PricewaterhouseCoopers in the Jewish entity branch, is a colonel in Unit Mamram, the cyber arm of the Jewish army. Boston itself even participated in the establishment of the "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation," which practiced starvation and systematic liquidation of the people of Gaza under the guise of aid.
How can a state that claims to be sovereign accept to delegate the privatization of companies affiliated with the Ministry of Defense to companies that have documented relationships with military leaders in the Jewish entity?! And how can it justify enabling these entities to access military files, financial data, organizational structures, and operational plans that affect its security? What is happening is a voluntary surrender of sovereignty and opening the doors for the enemy to see what only the legitimate guardian of the Muslims is allowed to see.
Islam strictly forbids handing over the affairs of Muslims, especially those related to the army and defense, to the infidels, or to those whose enmity to the nation has been proven. Allah Almighty said: ﴿Let not the believers take the disbelievers as allies rather than the believers. And whoever [of you] does that has nothing to do with Allah﴾ That is, whoever allies with the infidels and entrusts them with the affairs of Muslims, or agrees to hand over the keys of power to them, has left the umbrella of allegiance to Allah and His Messenger.
What Egypt is doing today, by signing agreements with consulting firms with ties to the occupation, is enabling the infidels to control the affairs of Muslims, and even their military and economic secrets, and this is not permissible under any circumstances, especially since these consultants have participated in genocidal crimes in Gaza.
The army in Islam is not an investment entity or a commercial institution, but rather a military apparatus with a combat doctrine prepared to protect the abode of Islam and repel aggression against the nation, and everything that enables this army to perform its function, from equipping, arming, and logistical support, must not be handed over to foreigners, nor dismantled under the title of privatization or reform. Rather, it is religiously obligatory to spend on it from the treasury of the Muslims, without mortgaging its capabilities to international funds or foreign experts. As for selling its economic arms, which should not exist in the first place, and opening them to foreign investments, it is taking the nation's weapon out of its hand and handing it over to the enemy, and the original principle is that it should not exist, because the army is not a merchant or a manufacturer and does not engage in politics and government, because the army's function is Jihad, and the state takes care of it and sponsors it and guarantees its needs, and what should really happen is that these companies should be under the control of the state, not the army, and should not be sold to anyone or privatized because they are from the public property.
What makes this decision even more criminal is that it comes at a time when mass genocides are being committed in Gaza, at the hands of the same army with which these companies have close ties. How can a state that claims to support Palestine allow itself to contract with those who finance, promote, and design plans for displacement and killing of the people of Gaza?! Is this not forbidden cooperation? Is it not a violation of allegiance and disavowal?
Rather, what makes matters worse is that this abandonment is promoted as economic reform and development! While in its essence, it is dismantling of sovereignty, selling of the capabilities of Muslims, and handing over of their secrets to the enemy.
The religious duty today is not privatization or meeting the conditions of the International Monetary Fund, but rather complete disengagement from the capitalist system and its colonial system, and rebuilding the economy on the basis of Islamic laws:
- Abolishing usury and dealing with currency as a real gold cover
- Restoring the importance of public property and preventing its ownership by the private sector
- Limiting the army's tasks to protecting the nation and carrying Islam to the world through Da'wah and Jihad, not managing factories, farms, and gas stations
- Preventing any form of cooperation or partnership with those whose enmity to the nation has been proven, even if it is in the form of an international advisor or expert
The economy in Islam is not separate from the creed, but rather a branch of it, governed by halal and haram, and is not managed according to free market indicators, but according to divine laws that guarantee justice and prevent dependency.
What is happening today of privatizing the Egyptian army's economy under the supervision of companies directly linked to the Jewish entity is a betrayal of Allah, His Messenger, and the believers, and a realization of the colonizer's desires without any restrictions or conditions. This must not be tolerated, but rather must be denied explicitly, exposed in public, and the sons of the nation, especially the armies, must be called upon to stand against it, and work hard to establish the authority of Islam that protects the nation and preserves its capabilities from tampering and betrayal.
The only solution for Egypt and its people is to adopt the Islamic economy and apply it completely with the rest of the Islamic systems, which complement each other under the Rightly Guided Caliphate according to the method of Prophethood, which takes care of people with Islam and divides ownership on its basis, so it establishes public property and puts it under the management of the state to take care of people with it in the best way, away from the West and its monopoly on services and its companies plundering wealth. O Allah, restore for us the state of Islam, its authority, and its law so that we may be shaded by its shadow once again; a Rightly Guided Caliphate according to the method of Prophethood.
Written by: Professor Mahmoud El-Leithy
Member of the Media Office of Hizb ut-Tahrir in the Wilayah of Egypt
Source: Al-Raya Newspaper
