The Elite will Face a Threat

By: Abdullah Ali Ibrahim

Part of God’s wrath upon us is that the elite (this is what school graduates and professionals call themselves) criticize others and have not yet found anyone to criticize them in a systematic manner. It describes groups of people as “illiterate,” “primitive,” or “backward,” or as suffering from a “pastoral mentality,” or “rural idiocy,” or as “Arabized” or “Islamized.” It monopolized the right to belittle others’ things. It even monopolized its own criticism, but gentl it is a “failure” or “addicted to failure,” which is similar to being reprimanded for a temporary situation it has fallen into and will emerge from it when it is determined.
I rarely found criticism of the elite that went beyond its humble self-compassion and pride in its awakening to a radical criticism that addressed its “failure” by looking at its political economy: at its cultural and social origins and its homes in the production process. I was happy to read a few days ago in this newspaper by Professor Mohammad Al-Ghabshawi, a conclusive speech that “led” the elite in “Al-Tanak.” He described it as suffering from two things. It is “lack of passiom” on the one hand and suffers from “ extra passion” on the other hand.
By the concept of “lack of passion,” Al-Ghabshawi means what I have tried more than once here by saying that the elite are devoid of passion. It It is my translation of the English “passion”. I believe that Al-Ghabshawi agreed on the most accurate Arabization of the word. The West has emptied the elite in its schools and through its role models of all passion for its people and their culture, and unleashed their tongues on them: “Oh primitive,” “Oh illiterate,” “Oh backward,” what a doer of yours, or your legacy. I was surprised, for example, by a Marxist who said, following Lenin, that the illiterate is outside politics, while his party is in the leadership of most of the labor unions and farmers’ unions, which are made up of illiterate people. Or you hear someone say to you, “By God, if he read this, it would be an innovation.” It was as if what Al-Haredlu said verbally was incomplete.
Al-Ghabshawi said that the loss of passion empties the conscience of the elite of creativity. Where does it come from and why has it always been “abolished by the nation”. Look at how we arrived at the failure, sterility, and addiction of the elite in a radical way that turns the entire tables of the elite upside down and returns them to the founding platform. The misery of poverty is what the communist regimes in China and Cambodia took upon the elite and treated with “forced labor” of re-education. It is to mobilize the elite to the countryside to eradicate the stigma of their Western upbringing among the peasants described as “authenticity” and drudgery. Of course, our comrades drove us away and left us with a blame. Rather, Temple Bay, the former Prime Minister of Chad, attempted this by subjecting the entire civil service to a very harsh traditional African ritual to return them to “Chadianism.”
As for the excess of subordination, it is the elite’s excessive acceptance of “blonde guardianship,” that is, white Western, in Al-Ghabshawi’s phrase. After the abolition of the nation, they became dependent on the West, its ideas and its methods. In short, the Muslim elite was blamed for not discovering the experience of the Bangladeshi scientist Mohammad Younus (author of the book A World Without Poverty) in microfinance until after the World Bank “masked” it. It is the bank that breaks and heals. The bank imposed poverty on the majority of the population of the Third World with its policy known as structural reform (and its privatization) and then covered up its misfortune with microfinance.
I noticed that Al-Ghabshawi reads in a manner other than what was agreed upon by most of our elite at best, such as Marquis, Amal Dunqul, Mansour Khaled, Mahjoub Sharif, and Al-Jabri. It is read in a clear view by Jalal Amin and Ramzi Zaki (Modernizing Poverty and Development of Backwardness) and by Al-Mahdi Al-Najra (Insult during the Mega Era), and I did not know about the latter two before. He reads Al-Mazan Al-Hasan.
Professor Salah Faragallah said that our elite are dependent on reality. This is close to what Brecht said: “Raising intellectuals is a long and arduous process. It is what tests the masses and sustains their patience.” If the elite becomes addicted to failure and continues to do so, it will come out like the Cambodian Pol Pot, and “they will face a threat .”