بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
" … we wold like our
people to know also that we love them more than ourselves and that we wish to
sacrifice our souls for their honour, glory, dignity, religion and their
aspirations, we work for people only for God's sake more than we work for
ourselves; we are for- our belover brothers- and we will never be against
you".
Imam Hassan Al Banna.
Statement
From
the
Muslim Brotherhood in
Our group is facing a fierce
campaign aiming to distort its image, frighten people and incite them against
it, with the participation of official media and security services, after some
of
To avoid the media's war
drums from blurring the memory of the nation, we should mention the following:
-
We adopt a gradual, peaceful apparoach for reform which is based on
Islam, and is concerned with building up the human being; the family; reform
the society including all its political, economic, social, cultural and
educational aspects, in simultaneous and interwined paths. We belive reform
should be based on moral principles in all aspects of life; that's,
truthfulness, honesty, fairness, integrity, sacrifice and faithfulness should
be the mainstay of any activity in addition to freedom, justice, equality and
truth. Therefore, we have declared that we beleive that the people must
be the source of authorities and that we believe in political plurality
the right to form parties, a peaceful circulation of power, integrity of
elections, judicial independence, separation between powers, press freedom, and
we completely rejected the use of violence and terrorism as a method to achieve
political or any other targets.
- Our words have always been
followed by actions; the MB contributed to ending many sectarian tensions,
resisted extremism and violence, protecting tens of thousands of young men from
falling in this abyss. We condemned all crimes of violence, assassination and
terrorism, demanding to study its causes and treat them, seeking to realize a
national reconciliation, and stopping random detentions, tortures and fake
trials. We stressed on the right of civilians to appear before natural justice,
respect law and court rulings, human rights. We focused our efforts to treat
poverty and unemployment and achieve a social solidarity, and fighting
corruption. We participated in different political activities and the people
gave us their trust and elected us in syndicates, teaching staff clubs, the
People's Assembly, and students unions. Instead of making the race focus on
winning people's support in an honest competition; the government and unfair
secularists launched a relentless campaign against us to spearate and sow
seditions between us and people, this campaign consisted of the following:
1- Denying us a legal
recognition, describing us as an outlawed group so that they can oppress us
whenever they want, curbing our movement and activities, denying us our rights
as Egyptian citizens and as a big popular and political group.
2- Using the voting bloc of
the National Democratic Party- which we all know how this party won it- in
enacting or extending legislations to harrass, harm and do injustice against
it, like the emergency law, the law of parties, the parties committee, the
parties court, the law of syndicates, press and judiciary, and others.
3- Postponing the
Municipalities elections for two years to prevent the group from competing with
the NDP although every one agree that the current municipalities are corrupt.
4- Stopping the elections of
the professional syndicates and the teaching staff clubs in universities
fearing our victory in them.
5- Rigging the elections of
the Chambers of Commerce and Labour Unions after striking off our candidates
and arresting others.
6- Jailing a big number of
our members- nearly 25000- during the last 10 years, including high school
students and elders, to the extent of that prisons wern't empty of MB
members from 1992 until now.
7- Torturing a considerable
number of MB members inside state security headquarters; one of them was
martyred.
8- Trying more than 150
Muslim Brotherhood leaders before five martial courts and sentencing most for
3-5 years in prison without committing any crime.
9- Rigging the last People's
Assembly election in a number of constituencies, and using bribes, bullying
and police to beat and harrass voters and some judges to the extent of
killing a number of citizens and injuring many; however, 88 Muslim Brotherhood
candidates won seats, and Dr Nazif acknowledged blocking 40 other Mb candidates
from winning through election rigging.
10- Using the so called
national television and press in launching distortive campaigns, lies and
fabrications against us without allowing us to respond or clarify the truth.
11- Blocking airing the
People's Assembly sessions on the television, as was the case in the previous
parliament targeting obscuring- from the media- the activities and performance
of our eighty eight MPs.
12- Standing behind
preventing issuing (Afaq Arabiyah) newspaper which was one of our media
outlets.
13- Shutting down a number
of companies and commercial activities and confiscating whatever money they
find in the the houses of the MB members when they arrest them.
14- Transfering thousands of
teachers and mosque imams to administrative jobs.
15- Imposing a travel ban on
a big number of MB members through administrative decisions without having any
court ruling, and even aginst court rulings.
16- Beating peaceful
demonstrators who took to streets in solidarity with the judges, by karate
groups affiliated with the central security forces, and arresting some
others some, the latest released over this issue was Dr. Mohamed Mursi and Dr.
Essam El-Erian after staying seven months behind bars.
- All this show the extent
of injustice and persecution which we are facing, however, we were and are
still patient and tolerant, and we open our minds and hearts for dialogue, and
reach out to others to cooperate concerning the common good and we never
thought about any retaliation.
- Then came the students
issue; MB students- who were prevented from running for the student unions, and
those whose nominations were accepted, their names were struck off before the
beginning of the elections; consequently, no one succeeded except those the
security approved; the other students had to hold parallel elections to
establish free student unions which aren't controlled by the whims of the
administration and the security; a university used bullies armed with with bladed
weapons to assault and beat the students inside the university under the eyes
of the university guard who only watched the aggression and did not intervene;
a number of MB students were injured and were sent to hospital, and a number of
free union students were referred to disciplinary boards and some of them were
dismissed from the university for a month, something that enraged their
colleagues and made them stage a sit in protesting at this dismissal; during
the sit-in, the aforementioned performance that we condemned and for which the
students apologized took place. Does this deserve all this hubub, incitement
and fabrications?
As for our stance, we will
follow the example of our messenger- peace be upon him- who face severe harm
then he was so patient and he prayed for his people, and we will respond to the
saying of our late Imam Hassan Al Banna : Treat people like trees, when they
throw stones at us, we will respond with fruits", and we
repeat with him his saying:" and we wold like our people to know also that
we love them more than ourselves and that we wish to sacrifice our souls for
their honour, glory, dignity, religion and their aspirations, we work for
people only for God's sake more than we work for ourselves; we are for- our
belover brothers- and we will never be against you".
(And whosoever putteth his
trust in Allah, He will suffice him. Lo! Allah bringeth His command to pass.
Allah hath set a measure for all things. ) ( at-Talaq "the divorce":
2 - 3 )
Peace, mercy and blessings
of Allah be upon you
Mohamed Mahdi Akef
The Muslim Brotherhood Chairman