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A former movie actor is promoting Islamic jihad terrorism to Egyptian TV audiences by means of an anti-France campaign riddled fallacies and myths.
In this Arabic-language video (starting at 5:28), Wajdi al-Arabi mixes historic events with fictions to propagate Islamic jihad, using bellicose rhetoric in a modern TV setting.
Once a well-known actor in Egyptian cinema, Wajdi al-Arabi turned into a member and staunch supporter of jihad terrorism after joining the Muslim Brotherhood. Later, he attacked other movie actors, accusing them of spreading immorality and destroying the Islamic community in Egypt and the Arab world.
After he disavowed his previous movie works, he began promoting Islamic Da’wa and guidance movies, which would lay down a new approach to the movie industry in an imminent religious state.
When the Egyptian army toppled the Muslim Brotherhood President Mohamed Morsi in June 2013, al-Arabi began to show anger and a jihadist tendency, which before then had not been evident in his personality.
His involvement with religious extremism began at the end of the 1980s, after a visit to Saudi Arabia and frequent meetings with the late sheikh Muhammad Metwally al-Shaarawy in Cairo. His sister stated in a television interview that he started demanding that she wear the veil, otherwise he would consider her an infidel if had she refused.
His Islamic strictness and fanaticism also were portrayed in his marital relationship and through his veiled three-year daughter, who appeared in Fitna, a 2008 short film by Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders, in which she was seen calling Jews the children of apes and pigs, as is mentioned in the Qur’an (2:63-65; 5:59-60; 7:166).
During the protests that took place in Egypt in what was known as the Rabaa sit-in which followed the ouster of Mohamed Morsi in 2013, al-Arabi was seen on the podium, standing among the leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood. He was filmed carrying his shroud on his hand, and wearing a t-shirt on which he wrote “a martyr project,” as a sign that he did not fear death for the sake of the terrorist group.
After the arrest of a large number of Muslim Brotherhood leaders following the end of the Brotherhood’s short reign in Egypt, a decision was taken by the terrorist group to resort again to forming an armed organization and establishing an intelligence apparatus. This apparatus aimed to carry out jihad terrorist operations inside Egypt in order to overthrow the regime and reinstall the Brotherhood in power.
Dozens of terrorist operations were planned and carried out in Egypt; among them was an attempt to assassinate the Deputy Attorney General of Egypt. In that case, Wajdi al-Arabi was sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia.
Recently, al-Arabi appeared on a TV program broadcast from Turkey, accusing French President Emmanuel Macron of insulting the Prophet of Islam, Muhammad. In the video, al-Arabi says that France has declared war on Islam and has closed more than 70 mosques under the “pretext of belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood.”
As he is talking about what he calls the “peaceful nature” of the Muslim Brotherhood movement, he spews hate speech, encouraging murder and lauding Hitler’s burning of the Jews.
“Islam is a religion of love, peace, justice and coexistence that is being subjected to bullying by Macron, who closed Muslim-owned shops for the simple reason that they belong to Muslims,” al-Arabi adds.
Al-Arabi in the video downplays the danger of the existence of more than 8,000 Muslims in France who are associated with terrorism. “This number does not represent half a percent of the Muslim population in France. Why would they subject the entire five million Muslims of France to scrutiny?”
Al-Arabi referred to the terrorist attack in Vienna, in which four people were killed and other 22 injured, as “the incident.” “The Austrian government should not have used that incident as a justification for the security steps taken against some of the extremist Islamic associations.”
Fancifully, al-Arabi charges that on many occasions, “an extreme right-wing, or an extreme Christian member” carries out terrorist acts in order to accuse Muslims of standing behind them. “Many of those crimes later turn out to be a terrorist act by a Catholic or an Orthodox terrorist.”
