Question:
انا شايف انك بتشيد بإي عمليه يقوم بها المجاهدين في البلاد العربية ولكن لم تشيد بعملية باريس لأسباب غير مقنعه بأنه أجل ثورة محتملة من الشعوب الغربيه!!
Answer:
Firstly, I don’t believe I have commended terrorist attacks at all, neither in Arab lands nor elsewhere. It is not a tactic I ever advocated. I have been quite explicit and detailed in explaining the strategic concept of targeted system disruption and in the types of tactics that may be used in this approach. There is no difference between what I advocate in the West and what I advocate in the Muslim world.
Targeting civilians is as counter-productive in Egypt as it is in France, Europe or the US. I have written repeatedly about the crucial need to avoid the spilling of innocent blood, and to focus confrontational efforts against corporate systems and the interests of investors. I have also warned against even targeting vital infrastructure and public utilities, to avoid causing suffering and inconvenience among the population. There is no change in my position on this issue, and there is no contradiction between what I advocate within our own lands and in the lands of the West; it is the same strategy, the same principle, and the same logic.
As for whether the rationale is convincing or not that terrorist attacks lead to intensification of security and surveillance which are ultimately used to repress the domestic population and prevent potential rebellion,; it is up to you to objectively analyze the evidence.
Since the attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States has become almost a police state, metadata surveillance was initiated, severe curtailment of civil liberties has become the norm, brutal economic policies have intensified to the point of bankrupting entire cities, and the gap between the rich and poor has grown drastically. And, of course, US foreign policy has not become less aggressive towards the Muslim world. The repressive power of the state has increased, and US military interventions in our lands have multiplied.
There is no logical reason to assume that similar types of attacks in our own lands will bring different consequences. There is perhaps no greater tool for a tyrannical regime than spreading fear among the population, and nothing more destructive to a revolutionary movement than alienating the population through indiscriminate violence. Any terrorist attack will automatically send the people rushing into the arms of the state for security and protection, and even when the state puts them in a choke hold, they will imagine that it is an embrace.