By Khalid Amayreh in Occupied Jerusalem

I feel I must salute the German Bundestag President Norbert Lammert for refusing to meet with Abdul Fattah al Sissi, the head of the bloody ruling junta in Egypt.

El-Sissi is planning to visit Germany in early June, probably to seek further legitimacy for his authoritarian regime.

On Wednesday, Lammert told the broadcaster Deutsche Welle that he didn't know what the head of an elected parliament would talk about with the 'undemocratic' Sisi

In his Wednesday interview with Deutsche Welle, Lammert was quoted as saying that "in light of these circumstances, I don't know what the president of an elected parliament and the president of a country that is regrettably not led democratically have to talk about."Lammert's remarks came following a letter he sent on Tuesday to the Egyptian ambassador in which he said that he has cancelled a meeting with Sisi planned to be held in June, citing human rights abuses, postponement of parliamentary elections, lack of democratic developments and mass death sentences in Egypt.

Lammert told Deutsche Welle in Berlin that he would have wished to see "a clear signal of the willingness and determination for democratic advancement" from Cairo.

Egypt’s State Information Service, a mouthpiece of the military junta, replied by claiming that all court rulings concerning the Muslim Brotherhood, the most popular political party in Egypt, were made after fair trials and arrests which are based upon concrete charges.

Lammert is correct

Lammert is absolutely and completely justified in saying what he said.

Sissi actually holds a huge amount of Egyptian and non-Egyptian blood on his sinful hands.

He ordered the murder of peaceful protesters, killing hundreds or thousands.

He carried out a bloody military coup against the first and last democratically-elected President in Egypt's history, namely President Dr. Muhammed Mursi.

He put tens of thousands of political opponents behind bars in appalling conditions.

According to human rights reports, several inmates, including college professors, medical doctors and other professionals have actually died either of torture or as a result of medical negligence.

This week, a major western human rights organization reported that the Egyptian regime employed systematic sexual abuse, including rape, as a punitive measure against political detainees.

The report drew indignation from many quarters. However, Washington, London, Paris and Berlin responded characteristically, calling the report "worrying" which underscores the west's backing of the criminal ruling gang in Cairo.

Sissi has also transformed the Gaza Strip into a virtual concentration camp, by hermetically shutting the Rafah border-crossing, the Strip's only remaining access to the outside world.

State terror

In addition to reinstating all police-state practices under the Mubarak dictatorship, the Sissi regime has effectively transformed the Egyptian justice system into a tool of repression against his Islamist and liberal opponents.

He concocted gales elections several times, dissolved elected bodies and outlawed non-conformist political groups, abruptly declaring them terrorist organizations.

And he instructed the Justice system to pass hundreds of death sentences on basically innocent political opponents who wouldn't really spend a single day in prison in any country with a modicum of respect for itself.

And when faced with objections over this pornographic state of oppression, Sissi and his ambassadors and other paid mouthpieces would simply invoke the false mantra that the Egyptian judiciary is independent.

Well, we all know this is not true if only because Sissi himself and the rest of his gang wouldn't remain at large a single day if the Egyptian justice system was truly independent.

Jungle of human rights violations

Today, Egypt under Sissi is a jungle of human rights violation. Inmates in prison are routinely raped and the perpetrators get away with impunity, women and children are routinely abused and harassed because of their family relations to Islamists. And when complaints are submitted, complainants are harassed in numerous ways which deters them from submitting their complaints.

In many cases for example, a given complainant is blackmailed to drop his complaint or else he would be charged with belonging to a terrorist group and having his or her assets confiscated. This is what happened recently to the famous soccer player Said Abu Treika.

State repression is boon for IS recruitment

Two weeks ago, this writer met with a small group of IS sympathizers. I was told that the Sissi regime is actually loved by the IS group.

"His repression is helping IS to swell its ranks in Egypt and other parts of the region. Al-Qaeda was thought to have died at the Tahrir Square in 2011, but IS was born at Rabaa."

I think this assessment is more or less correct. When one tries to argue democracy with these extremists, they instantly shut off the mouths of their opponents by invoking the west-backed bloody coup against the Islamists.

"What democracy you are talking about. Do you really think the West would allow true democracy to take place in the Arab world? We saw what happened in Egypt," the extremists would argue. Unfortunately, it is extremely hard to refute their arguments.

One of the IS sympathizers told this writer the following: The secular fascist repression of Islamists and non-Islamists in Egypt will ultimately lead to two major scenarios: "First, a complete implosion in Egypt, which will happen sooner or later, especially if the Sissi's reign of terror continued, and, second, millions of Egyptians would take to the Mediterranean heading to Europe for a more dignified life."

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Khalid Amayreh is a veteran Palestinian journalist and current affairs commentator living in occupied Palestine