Muslim Brotherhood warns Egypt's generals of "life or death" struggle

Brotherhood or blood. "Muslim Brotherhood warns Egypt's generals," by Jack Shenker and Abdel-Rahman Hussein in the Guardian, June 18:

The Muslim Brotherhood has vowed to face down Egypt's ruling generals in a "life or death" struggle over the country's political future, after declaring that its candidate had won the presidential election and would refuse to accept the junta's last-ditch attempts to engineer a constitutional coup.
As final ballot results trickled in and unofficial tallies suggested that Mohamed Morsi had secured approximately 52% of the popular vote, the Brotherhood deployed its harshest language yet against the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (Scaf), promising to bring millions of Egyptians back on to the streets if attempts to rebuild the old regime continued.

"Over the past 18 months we were very keen to avoid any clashes or confrontations with other components of Egypt's political system because we felt that it would have negative consequences for the democratic system and for society as a whole," said Fatema AbouZeid, a senior policy researcher for the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice party and a media co-ordinator for the Morsi campaign. "But now it's very clear that Scaf and other institutions of the state are determined to stand in the way of what we're trying to achieve, and we won't accept this any more. Egypt will not go back to the old regime through any means, legal or illegal.

"If we find that Scaf stands firm against us as we try to fulfil the demands of the revolution, we will go back to the streets and escalate things peacefully to the highest possible stage," she said. "Now we have a new factor in Egyptian politics, the Egyptian people themselves, who will not accept a return to the old regime in any form, not after so much Egyptian blood was shed to remove it.

"The revolution is facing a life or death moment and the Egyptian people have put their faith in Dr Morsi to represent them at this time."...

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Wellington | June 19, 2012 4:28 PM | Reply

And what is the reason for this mess? I mean the bottom-line reason, not the fluffy, stupid, politically correct reason, replete with academic and journalistic commentary about the dimensions of the present intractable situation, the dynamics of current Egyptian politics, blah, blah blah.

Why Islam of course.

guide inside | June 19, 2012 6:30 PM | Reply

"It is written"---Yep, its all in the book. We are seeing Thousands of years of Bible prophesies being fulfilled in our eyes.

exsgtbrown | June 20, 2012 1:22 AM | Reply

"The Muslim Brotherhood has vowed to face down Egypt's ruling generals in a "life or death" struggle over the country's political future,..."

sounds like a threat.....

ApolloSpeaks | June 20, 2012 1:28 AM | Reply

What? Karen Armstrong's great compassionate social welfare Brethren threatening violence? Mahatma Mohammed is rolling in his grave.

ewha1 | June 20, 2012 2:58 AM | Reply

The Jihadists in a power grab. It doesn't matter which country we're talking about, which decade or century we're in, it's the same old story.

They want complete power

Dr Radovan Karadžić, in his opening statement at the ICTY, spoke of the Jihadist leadership of the SDA in Bosnia.

" When the United States, in 1995, decided to end the war which they had been waging in Bosnia-Herzegovina, their ambassadors, Holbrooke and Bildt, write and say that Holbrooke told the Islamic leadership, they said, What do you want us to negotiate for you? Do you want to have 100 per cent power in 30 per cent of Bosnia, or 30 per cent of power in 100 per cent Bosnia? You cannot have 100 per cent power in 100 per cent Bosnia. And that is the crux of all our crisis and the war and the crisis that is still ongoing today, and you can clearly see that it came from the state department and Holbrooke"

And

"So this -- there was this need to have one more vote, one extra vote, but not only that was enough, because the substance of the requirements of the SDA was to have Bosnia 100 per cent for them, and that was the basic way in which they were thinking. "Bosnia is ours. The Serbs are guests here, and God knows the Croats, too", When they didn't need them to leave Yugoslavia anymore, and so they have to obey. And that was the attitude towards the Christian majority"

And

"Now what was this conspiracy core within the SDA? They were the young Muslims. And it is these young Muslims that were formed as an affiliation or a reflection of the Muslim brothers in Egypt, for example, who, as you know, killed Sadat and did goodness knows what else."

The countries change, the dates are different, the details aren't the same, but it's still the same "Young Muslim" organisations. Seeking total power.

Now they're going to finish what they started all those decades ago when the MB was born.

logdon | June 20, 2012 4:26 AM | Reply

MB to voters.

If we win it's a glorious victory. If the seculars win we will kill them.

And that's an election?

Why bother? Why not just skip the democratic pretense and get to the killing stage straight away?

Fact is the MB expected absolute dominance in the polls. Now it's teetering either way they've decided that elections are for wimps.

This is pure Islam. A fantasy world of smoke and mirrors which dogs every aspect of their lives.

I'm objective enough to know that we in the West are not perfect.

Our history is far from a utopian ideal but nothing matches Islam in it's hypocrisy, dishonesty, barbarism, hate and backwardness.

Islam Moohammed | June 20, 2012 3:54 PM | Reply

Having friends in the Egyptian military I can only say that the ones that I knew were honorable people. Both a mix of muzlim and (for me) Christian Nubians from lower Egypt. General Samir El Hadiddi was a great guy and his family was super to mine.

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