Egypt mulls ban of Muslim Brotherhood as it calls week of protests

Egypt mulls ban of Muslim Brotherhood as it calls week of protests

The Muslim Brotherhood may be banned in Egypt, the country’s interim prime minister’s spokesman said. The threat comes after the Islamist movement called for a week of protest against a military crackdown that left over 700 dead.

Egypt's current Prime Minister, Hazem el-Beblawi, proposed on Saturday that the Muslim Brotherhood be dissolved. The idea is being mulled, according to a government spokesman.

Beblawi proposed the dissolution to the minister of social affairs who heads up the ministry tasked with licensing non-governmental organisations. "It is being studied currently," Sherif Shawky said.

Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood brought tens of thousands of people to the streets across the country following traditional Muslim prayers in what it called a “Friday of Rage.” In Cairo and other cities violent clashes erupted.

Overall, at least 173 people were killed Friday across Egypt, including some police and members of the security forces. This included 95 in central Cairo alone, a spokesperson said on Saturday. The official death toll from the violence now stands at more than 800 since Wednesday, when security forces evicted two large pro-Morsi sit-in camps in Cairo. The crackdown was the worst episode of violence in the country in decades, triggering condemnation from a number of international organizations and foreign governments.

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Sky News: Egypt: Gun Fire Exchanged At Besieged Mosque : The Egyptian PM proposes legally dissolving the Muslim Brotherhood, as its supporters clash with soldiers at a Cairo mosque.

Soldiers have entered a mosque in central Cairo where Muslim Brotherhood protesters had taken refuge after another day of deadly clashes across Egypt.

A tense stand-off remains at the al-Fatah mosque in Ramses Square with Egyptian footage appearing to show the security forces negotiating with the protesters, attempting to persuade them to leave.

The bid to resolve the siege continued as an official announced that Egyptian Prime Minister Hazem el Beblawi had proposed the legal dissolution of the Muslim Brotherhood and that the idea was being studied by the government.

It also emerged that the brother of al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahri had been arrested in Egypt for supporting ousted president Mohamed Morsi.

Hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood supporters have barricaded themselves inside the mosque, which has been turned into a makeshift field hospital for the wounded and a morgue for some of those killed in the protests.

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Looks like they are going to lable the group a Terrorist group. It was interesting to see a feed from Egyptian TV that had the caption 'Egypt Fighting Terrorism' Well the Muslim Brotherhood had waited a very long time to get into power and it looks like it has cost them. I can see this being a real big turning point for the whole of the region. The MB are close with Hamas and if the troubles spread to Palastine which is slowly happening according to reports which can bee seen bellow:-

Hamas security forces detain PA officers in Gaza

GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Security forces of the Hamas-run government in the Gaza Strip on Friday detained two Palestinian Authority security officers.

Hamas security forces ransacked several homes in the Fadil Rayhan neighborhood in northern Gaza, a Ma'an reporter said.

They detained Zakariyya Shehada, an officer in the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority's Preventive Security Services, and his son Jihad, and confiscated a computer and mobile phones from Shehada's apartment.

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There have also been reports of Hamas fighters clashing with Palastinian forces in Hebron. If this spreads to Palastine then this could get really ugly.

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It also emerged that the brother of al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahri had been arrested in Egypt for supporting ousted president Mohamed Morsi.
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Looks like they are going to lable the group a Terrorist group. It was interesting to see a feed from Egyptian TV that had the caption 'Egypt Fighting Terrorism' Well the Muslim Brotherhood had waited a very long time to get into power and it looks like it has cost them. I can see this being a real big turning point for the whole of the region.

Al-Zawahri, before being part of A.Q. was a leader of Islamic Jihad in Egypt, who were responsible for the assassination of Sadat and were supporters of similar groups in Egypt like the MB. It's not at all surprising that they are still allies. Different names but all fruit from the same tree.

I don't doubt the MB will be banned once again, they obviously didn't learn the lessons of why they got banned in the past. Like I said, once a hard-line fundamentalist, always a hardliner fundamentalist.

Somehow and for some stupid reason, the US government thought the MB had changed, even though there were no real indications that they had. It was all wishful thinking on our part.

What a slap in the face for the Obama administration support for Terrorist in Egypt, what can I say Obama is a muslim behind the scene and always will be one.

People should be so proud of how our tax dollars get to finance terrorism in other countries.

Juan Cole posted a good resume at twitter a few minutes ago:

Egypt: 1948, MB banned for killing PM; 1954: MB banned for trying to kill Pres; 2013: MB banned for getting elected Pres & doing bad job

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Maybe Obama will bring the leaders of the MB here give them citizenship and have them place in his cabinet or in the white house, after all he seems to love them.

As someone who really don't like Muslim Brotherhood and what they stand for, Egyptian army is guilty of pushing economically, politically and socially unstable country toward civil war.
If both sides will not find compromise it is going to be inevitable, in my opinion. And after recent harsh treatment chance of compromise is really low.

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Sadly the next step was to tell the media how and what they may write:

At a time when the SIS expresses its respect for the freedom of opinion and expression, it noticed that some media coverage has steered away from objectivity and neutrality that are internationally common, according to a certain political agenda; a state of affairs that led to conveying a distorted image that is very much far from the facts and media coverage.

Source: Egypt's State Information Service

Journalists fear more attacks again. On Friday two Canadian filmmakers, John Greyson and Tarek Loubani, were arrested and there are no news about them since then.
People of the Jan25 movement react with bitterness to the statement of the Army, that there was a second revolution on June 30, saying it was a counter revolution instead.