An Egyptian Court recently sentenced 529 members of a Muslim BrotherHood to death on charges of murder. Yet not all the members were involved in the alleged killing of two police officers and attack of a police station. So how come all the supporters of the movement are being sentenced to death? The government may be desiring to make a statement to those who oppose their religion and beliefs. Killing 529 people without just cause can be considered genocide. The government has labeled the Brotherhood a "terrorist group." However, The Brotherhood calls themselves a peaceful group. While it has been proven than some members of the group have been involved in unjust crimes, the other certainly to not deserve this punishment. The Brotherhood has been accused on other occasions of burning down Christian churches, tearing down Sufis Shrines, and sidelining the military. So the government has countered this. There's is a religious war going on in Egypt and many neighboring countries. So do you think that the Egyptian government has the right of sentencing a so called terrorist group to death? Do you think that supporters of a "detrimental" group should be punished?
Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/24/muslim-brotherhood-trial-egypt_n_5019909.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular#slide=2715774
3 comments:
If the government can find concrete evidence that all 529 members of the brotherhood had been involved in terrorist activity or murder, then the sentence would make sense just to keep the public safe. However, if not, sentencing a whole group based on a few individuals is plain discrimination. It would be like if in America, Christians as a whole were discriminated upon because of the actions of the Westboro Baptist Church.
This sentence is definitely not justified. If anything, condemning 529 people of an opposition group only adds to the feud and instability in Egypt. Hearing about what is going on in the Middle East makes me understand how valuable the separation between church and state.
I think that the Egyptian court's verdict was not just. By taking action on 529 members instead of the ones that were actually involved makes it seems as if the government was trying to make an example to intimidate others rather than finding justice. If they had just sentenced those involved it would have been rational, but to sentence people that are only supporting Morsi makes it come off as a stretch. And the fact that they sentenced every single one of them to execution just seems excessive.
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