A young boy in Egypt, apparently no more than six years old, was recently raped by a Muslim Brotherhood member “angered” at the child for singing praises to Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, widely seen in Egypt as the hero of the revolution that saw the ousting of Muhammad Morsi and the Brotherhood in July 2013.

The details, including video interviews with the boy (whose face appears alternatively blotted out or hidden by his hands to protect his identity and dignity) and his father and mother, recently appeared on Egyptian journalist Wael Ibrashi’s television program (the same program that exposed Egypt’s “first sex-slave marriage” and how women were drinking camel urine in connection with Islamic teachings).

The story goes as follows: one day, when the boy was singing praises to Sisi near his home, a neighbor, Ahmed Abu Sa'id (the Brotherhood member), called him over and took him to a nearby shed, saying he needed help with something.  Once inside, Sa'id locked the door, began tearing the boy’s pants off, and raped him, saying, “You’re always holding pictures of this Sisi and singing his praises.  Come, I’ll humiliate and break you – and your Sisi.”

The boy started screaming aloud, until the man was finished and released him.  According to his mother, “I heard him crying and left my work [in the field] and ran up to meet him.  He was holding his pants up.   I thought some kids had beaten him!”  (She bursts into inarticulate tears when describing what actually did happen to him.)

When the mother tried to confront her son’s rapist, she was beaten by him and his crew.

According to the boy’s father, Ahmed Abu Sa‘id is a well-known Brotherhood member, living in the neighborhood, who often appeared with leading MB members back when Morsi was in power.  Sa‘id often tried to enlist the support of the boy’s father but was refused.

Similarly, the raped boy’s mother said that Sa‘id’s wife also tried to buy her support, and once offered her a considerable amount of money – much more than she was earning working in the field – to go and support the Brotherhood “sit ins” in Rabia (where rape, torture, and mass murder were taking place). 

In other words, constant refusals from the boy’s family to join and/or support the Brotherhood earned the Sa‘id family’s wrath – culminating in the boy’s rape and degradation, for daring to sing songs in praise of Sisi and the anti-Brotherhood revolution.

Of course, none of this should be surprising, as it conforms to earlier Brotherhood patterns.  For example, back in December 2012, when Egyptians first rose en masse against Muhammad Morsi, Fox News reported that “Egypt’s embattled Muslim Brotherhood regime is paying gangs of thugs to rape women and beat men who gather in Tahrir Square to protest the power grab of President Mohamed Morsi, say activists.”

This is to say nothing of the fact that, under Brotherhood leadership, rape and sexual harassment in Egypt skyrocketed.

More broadly speaking, and beyond the issue of rape, during Egypt’s presidential elections in June 2012 (and as I reported here), Islamist parties in general and the Muslim Brotherhood in particular made perfectly clear that they would do anything – lie, cheat, steal, threaten, beat, and kill – to get what they want.  A small sampling during elections follows:

• One man “beat his pregnant wife to death upon learning that she had not voted for the Muslim Brotherhood candidate Muhammad Morsi.”  According to police reports, “despite her pleas,” the husband “battered and bruised” her after discovering she had voted for Ahmed Shafiq, the other candidate.  She died later in the hospital “from injuries sustained.”
• A 52-year-old man and “supporter of Morsi” slapped his mother for voting for Shafiq.  The man took his elderly mother to the voting booth, informing her that she must vote for Morsi; after she voted, he pressed her to confirm that she did in fact vote for him – only to be told that she did not.  The man “lost his temper” and slapped her in front of the other voters and electoral supervisors.
• In accord with the Muslim Brotherhood’s own directives, whole segments of Coptic Christians were prevented from voting.  According to Al Ahram, in Upper Egypt, where millions of Copts live, “the Muslim Brotherhood blockaded entire streets, prevented Copts from voting at gunpoint, and threatened Christian families not to let their children go out and vote.”
• A peasant farmer was “stabbed” by a “supporter of Morsi,” simply for putting up a picture of the secular Shafiq on his motorcycle – reminiscent of the recent rape of the boy singing praises to Sisi.

In or out of power, then, the Muslim Brotherhood continues exposing its true colors – to those not colorblind.