Egypt Daily News – Former Egyptian Minister of Awqaf (Minister of Religious Endowments), Saad Al-Faqi, commented on the arbitrary dismissal of Moroccan engineer Ibtihal Abu Al-Saad from her job at Microsoft after she called for a boycott of the company’s products due to its ties with Israel.
Al-Faqi explained in statements that Engineer Abu Al-Saad had sent an internal message to the company calling for the boycott, considering the company’s policy to be “lacking in humanitarian principles.” He emphasized that her stance represents “a living lesson in patriotism and faith in the central cause of Palestine.”
Al-Faqi urged the free people of the world to respond to the boycott call, pointing out that the company provides Israel with advanced technologies used to commit massacres against Palestinians. He also warned Arab countries against using the company’s products, which he said “support the Zionists and serve their interests.”
Al-Faqi strongly condemned the brutal massacre committed by the Israeli occupation in the Shujaiya neighborhood in Gaza, which resulted in the deaths of dozens of innocent children, women, and the elderly. He described these crimes as “genocide rejected by all heavenly laws and international conventions.”
He confirmed that the deliberate policy of starvation and preventing food and medicine from reaching the people of Gaza, as well as targeting infrastructure, represents a “flagrant violation of international and humanitarian law.” He called on the free people of the world and those with a conscience to take immediate action to stop these crimes, while also calling for a unified Arab and Islamic stance to activate international decisions and confront “Zionist-American arrogance.”
Al-Faqi concluded his statements by stressing that these crimes represent “a stain on the face of humanity,” urging the need to support the resilience of the Palestinian people in the face of ongoing aggression.
Engineer Ibtihal Abu Al-Saad, an employee at Microsoft, had previously interrupted the speech of Mustafa Suleiman, the CEO of Microsoft’s Artificial Intelligence division, during the company’s 50th anniversary celebration to protest the provision of AI systems to the Israeli army in its ongoing war against Gaza.
