Letter dated 09 November 2011 (Sharjah Central Prison)
…Egypt is more important than Libya for a host of reasons, not least of all because the revolution was genuine and unpredicted. To try to guess the direction Libya will take, I think it is maybe enough to look at the examples of Western backed overthrows in Latin and South America in the 1970s and 1980s; adding oil to the formula of course. I expect to see similarities and I do not expect good from the new rulers of Libya. Allahu’alam.
But Egypt is more or less a new scenario and I think that the terms of power are going to be determined in Egypt more than anywhere else. By the terms of power, I mean all that we have previously discussed in terms of the termination of traditional state models of authority and control and sovereignty; increasing the super-sovereignty of multinational corporations and financial institutions and their extremely hostile and aggressive domination and suppression of the population of the world. Egypt is a battle ground for the future of not only the Muslim world, but in fact the whole world.
Every weapon of business is going to be unleashed against Egypt to enslave them because self determination is a far worse crime than political corruption in the view of international power. The elite of Egyptian society will be complicit in this and will work to forward the agenda of international investors….The Muslims, the activists, the people must be prepared to address this before they are forced to choose between having a government that represents their values or having bread to eat.
The economic weapon is exceedingly dangerous to the Islamic project. Shaitaan orders us to comit fahsha by threatening us with poverty. And Rasulullah (صلى الله عليه و سلم) said that poverty is almost a prelude to kufr.