According to Arabic media, during a recent conference in Egypt, Dr. Abdul Rahman al-Birr””the mufti of the Muslim Brotherhood””declared that “Israel will soon be gone, for it is a foreign body in the region and [its] history, and that Jerusalem will be liberated, not at the hands of the previous Muhammads but the current one, President Muhammad Morsi.”
According to reports, he also added that “the attempts of some to separate Egypt from Palestine will not succeed” and that “the mujahidin [jihadis] will remain in Palestine and in Egypt to liberate Jerusalem.”
However, in a recent statement, al-Birr said he was taken out of context, that the “liberation” of Jerusalem at the hands of Morsi was not his prediction, but rather a tradition among the rabbis of Israel, who, according to the Brotherhood’s mufti, knew that Israel’s demise was inevitable, and that it would come not at the hands President Muhammad Anwar al-Sadat, nor Muhammad Hosni Mubarak, but the “third Muhammad–”the Muslim Brotherhood’s Muhammad.