Press Release
Egyptian-American Cooperation... A Subservience and Dependence on the Colonizer with Neither Egypt nor the Ummah Having a Say or Stake in It!
(Translated)

On May 25, 2025, the so-called Egypt-U.S. Policy Leaders Forum was held in Cairo, attended by Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly, U.S. Ambassador Herro Mustafa Garg, and representatives from over 60 American companies, along with Egyptian ministers from sovereign and economic sectors. The forum was portrayed as a strategic opportunity to enhance cooperation between Egypt and the U.S., backed by official rhetoric praising the American private sector and its role in “developing Egypt,” with numerous promises and incentives for foreign investment.

But the glaring truth, which must not be obscured by the dust of diplomatic slogans, is that this forum does not represent a partnership between equals. Rather, it is an expression of a humiliating political and economic dependency that entrenches Egypt’s subservience to colonial powers, foremost among them America. It lays the groundwork for new decades of plundering the Ummah's wealth, restricting its sovereign decisions, and strangling its potential for genuine progress.

Portraying America as an economic partner to Egypt is a reversal of facts and a falsification of political awareness. America has never been a friend of the Islamic Ummah; it is the head of the colonial serpent, fueling wars, supporting oppressive regimes, looting wealth, and sustaining the political and economic subjugation of the region's countries.

It is America that protects the Jewish entity, supporting it with weapons and funds. It imposed Camp David, oversees regional security arrangements to ensure the supremacy of the Jews, and props up its client regimes, including the Egyptian one. Is it conceivable, after all this, to present this state as merely a strategic economic partner?

Anyone who views America as a partner is either ignorant of political realities, a rented will devoid of dignity, or an agent executing its plans as part of its instruments of influence.

This forum was not merely an economic meeting; it was a political platform to legitimize direct U.S. intervention in shaping Egypt’s economic policies. In the name of "improving the investment climate" and "supporting the private sector," the keys to Egypt’s economy were handed over to U.S. transnational corporations, beyond sovereignty, through massive privileges, including:

* Abolishing Egyptian specification requirements on American cars.

* Exempting American dairy products from halal certification.

* Accelerating the “golden license” process for foreign investors.

* Signing customs agreements that eliminate remaining protective barriers.

All of this is carried out under the pretext of attracting investment, while the real result is: opening Egypt’s markets to American imports, dismantling what remains of local industry, and organically linking the Egyptian economy to the American capitalist machine. Is it reasonable that American companies—political and economic tools of hegemony, are entrusted with saving Egypt? This is an insult to intelligence and a manipulation of the legal and political reality.

It is regrettable to see Egyptian ministers competing to offer facilitations, reduce conditions, and open doors for American companies as though they were commercial agents for them. Worse still, Madbouly declared that Egypt would reduce the state's role in the economy in favor of the private sector, when in reality, this is nothing more than a cover for handing over vital sectors to foreign influence.

The energy, infrastructure, transportation, communications, industry, and education sectors... are all today being laid on the privatization table for foreign companies, led by American ones. This is the model of modern economic colonialism: controlling the levers of production and services without needing military occupation. Even worse, the regime markets this forfeiture as structural reform, when in reality, it is enabling the colonizer to dominate the people’s livelihoods, wealth, and destinies.

What the regime is doing—strengthening economic ties with America and empowering it over the country’s resources—is a manifest haram, explicitly forbidden in Islam for many reasons: It is not permissible in Islam to ally with disbelievers who are actively at war with Muslims, like America—who occupies their lands, supports the usurping entity over their territory, and is hostile to Islam.

Allah (swt) says:

[يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لَا تَتَّخِذُوا الْيَهُودَ وَالنَّصَارَى أَوْلِيَاءَ]

“O you who have believed, do not take the Jews and the Christians as allies.” [Surat Al-Ma’idah:51].

And America is the head of these, and the most hostile to Islam and the Muslims. It is forbidden for the colonizing kafir (disbeliever) to have any authority over Muslim lands. Any economic, political, or military empowerment granted to them is a clear haram. Selling the Ummah’s wealth and enabling foreign companies to control the economy is a betrayal of the trust, a violation of the people's right to wealth, and corruption on Earth.

The solution to crises and the effective treatment for problems is not through further dependence on America or partnerships with the enemy, but through liberating political and economic will from all Western guardianship and establishing the Khilafah Rashidah (Rightly Guided Caliphate) on the method of the Prophethood. This Khilafah (Caliphate) will restore sovereignty to the Shariah, sever ties with colonizing states, and rebuild the Islamic economy on strong foundations of industry, agriculture, and trade according to Islamic rulings. Only the Khilafah can prevent colonial companies from entering the country, restoring wealth to its rightful legal status as a public property of the Ummah that must be managed and benefited from. It will revive the true monetary system based on gold and silver, which eliminates all forms of inflation, preserves people’s efforts and savings, prohibits usury, ends dependency, and severs all threads of foreign influence.

The Egyptian-American economic forum is not an achievement to be proud of—it is a political scandal that reveals the extent of the ruling regime’s exposure and its subordination to the American enemy. Its statements about a “strategic partnership” are nothing but verbal cover for a bitter reality of dependency and submission to the colonizer.

It is incumbent upon Muslims to reject this path and realize that salvation does not lie through the gates of the White House, but through returning to Islam, implementing it in politics and economics under the Khilafah Rashidah on the method of the Prophethood, which will restore the Ummah’s position, expel the colonizer from its lands, and establish true justice.

[يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اسْتَجِيبُوا لِلَّهِ وَلِلرَّسُولِ إِذَا دَعَاكُمْ لِمَا يُحْيِيكُمْ]

“O you who have believed, respond to Allah and to the Messenger when he calls you to that which gives you life [Surat Al-Anfal:24].

Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir
in Wilayah Egypt