after months of imprisoning members the Muslim Brotherhood and in many cases
violence leading both Muslim Brotherhood members and those opposing them as a
brother dead
egypt has formally banned at the Muslim Brotherhood for operating inside Egypt
I in fact the I meet other Egypt's the official news agency reported that
any institution branching out to the Muslim Brotherhood hot
Brotherhood or receiving financial support from it will be bent
I they believe those are covered activities that violate Islam and its
rulings
are they going to say that it violated the rights of citizens when the Muslim
Brotherhood was in power under Mohammed Morsi
and while more Morsi was in power citizens lost their basic rights for
social social justice and security
and under egyptians found only repression and
arrogance now of course you're going to have to take those words of the great
assault thing is how they are coming from the official state press
each upped but that is what's going on right now obviously
the Muslim Brotherhood not liking this legislative ruling
are this judicial really I should say either he monir a leading Brotherhood
member responded by saying
this is a totalitarian decision your losers and
the Brotherhood will remain with God's help now by the orders by the judiciary
have LCC
at talking about one of the military authorities there now %uh
many believe that this is banning of the Muslim Brotherhood is
sort of redundant considering what's been going on in Egypt in the past few
months
as I alluded to thousands of members of the Muslim Brotherhood including many of
its top political leaders
have been rounded up and detained I Mohammed Morsi retain %uh
remains in secretive military did at a
captivity as we speak and of course there have been many killed in violence
spreading throughout the country particularly in cairo over the course of
the past few months
and so many see this is sort of a redundant move although
it can set a precedent that would allow the political and military authorities
in Egypt to move from
just the political branch love the bright Muslim Brotherhood
and to sum up its support network now this support network network is
incredibly diverse and extensive
includes churches %uh schools
cherry organizations a number of different arms of the group that
are %uh instrumental both in raising money for the Muslim Brotherhood
but also rallying a popular support for the movement
now of course it's not a very popular movement as of right now in Egypt
although it has been more popular in the past
but it in so with the attempted to move against I understand politically why
they feel the need to do that but I do worry about what the future
%uh education politics holds after this move now %uh
for the vast majority of its existence the mother Muslim Brotherhood was banned
in fact it was only sorta informally unbanned in the intervening years over
the course of the past year or two
and so the idea that simply by banning it you can drive it totally underground
and perhaps even kill it that seems
completely unrealistic at this point in many of the both the numbers the Muslim
Brotherhood we have sort of a vested interest
but also just scholars I love a Egyptian politics a
this is not going to be successful in in fact it could lead to the Muslim
Brotherhood
gaining some additional degree of power because I've sort of the or other being
a martyred political party up more devout Muslims or something along those
lines
and so I don't know that that edge it ships a digits in politics or the
partitions or the up on military will be successful in their mission
now a one of the %uh the former justice minister is there says
a similar thing now this is somebody who'd does not have as best a vested
have an interest
as the Brotherhood members but Ahmed Mekki says
the group exists either with C band or without
it is like Israel for some Arab countries it exists though some Arabs
don't recognize it
does this affect Israel the answer is no and so a similar situation going on in
Egypt and
it is going to be interesting to find out what part display is
in the next couple beers a judge in politics because while not many have
as we said the political members have been rounded up by the military and
certainly support for the Brotherhood
is that I would imagine an all-time low they still Cal possibly a million
members
in Egypt now egypt is a country over 18 million people
and so as a percentage its relatively small but if you drive it underground
if you give it this mystique of fighting for something as significant
representing some on
I guess unspoken aspect if just by Gyptian society
I think that they could be shooting themselves in the foot actually making
it easier for the Muslim Brotherhood
to both were crew members and to disseminate its message
in future years