The opposition in Egypt under the umbrella of National Salvation Front (NSF) led by Nobel Peace laureate El Baradei, as part of international conspiracy to “unsettle” the Mohamed Morsi administration, is creating violence in the country. On this disquieting scenario prevailing in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood said in a statement on 23 March:
“Certain parties and individuals are doing their worst to drag Egypt into disasters and civil wars. They desperately tried to storm the Itehadia Presidential Palace in several consecutive violent protests, and failed. Then, they tried to torch and vandalise public and private buildings and institutions, spreading their web of violence and destruction across several provinces, and again failed.
“Now, they target Muslim Brotherhood youths and their headquarters, in another desperate attempt to undermine society at large, using the most savage means and dirtiest barbaric treachery, using young boys and criminal thugs. They are trying to drag the Brotherhood into a cycle of violence, all the while hiding under ‘revolutionary’ or ‘activist’ banners, phrases and names that no longer deceive the Egyptian people.
“Yesterday [22 March], those criminal saboteurs resumed their futile evil attempts. They attacked the headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood in various provinces, violated the sanctity of mosques and lay siege to them, targeted innocents inside places of worship, prevented ambulances from reaching the injured, raided homes and stormed offices with a barrage of Molotov cocktail fire-bombs, birdshot and live bullets, and terrorised innocent residents and merchants in surrounding areas.
“These attacks wounded hundreds of Brotherhood members, many of whom were treated inside Brotherhood headquarters, while 176 injured Brothers had to be transferred to a number of hospitals, including 26 Brothers in critical condition (brain and chest haemorrhage, and other injuries caused by birdshot in the eye and head).
“Violent thugs also torched ten buses, smashed several private vehicles’ windows and windscreens, attacked Brotherhood headquarters in Mansoura, Mahalla, Fayoum and Minya, in addition to a massive mindless attack on our headquarters in Manyal Al-Rhoda where they terrorised and robbed girls preparing for Mother’s Day celebrations and stole office contents.
“Anger and pain and frustration boil inside Brotherhood youth, as they take all kinds of insults, curses, obscenities and assaults after the revolution – just as they did before it, paying an exorbitant bill for the election of a leading Brotherhood member to the office of President, at the dawn of a new civil era, challenged by a deep state well-versed in the ways of corruption and despotism.
“Brotherhood youths, however, have no intention of venting this anger, except within the boundaries of law and in peaceful ways, believing that God will fail works of mischief, and that falsehood lasts for only a moment, while truth lasts to the end of time.
“Brotherhood youth will abide by the Holy Quran, and remember how the first companions of the Prophet (peace be upon him) and – more recently – the Brotherhood’s earlier generations suffered patiently, giving the greatest lessons and best examples of forbearance, of directing endeavours to appropriate arenas.
“If the Muslim Brotherhood had ‘militias’ – as some haters claim, if the Brotherhood was inclined to use violence, it would have retaliated, rather than show so much patience…