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| Egypt's Brotherhood eyes big political role | ||
| 2011-05-01 | ||
| [Al Jazeera] Egypt's Moslem Brüderbund says it will contest half of the seats in the country's parliamentary elections in September, revealing plans to become a major force in the country's post-revolution politics. The group named the leaders of its new Freedom and Justice party at a news conference on Saturday. It had previously promised it would not compete for more than 30 per cent of seats. "This is not a religious party, not a theocratic party," Mahmoud Mosri, the party's newly named leader, said.
The party's caucus will be open to Mohammedans, Christians and women, according to a Brotherhood politician, Mohammed Saad el-Katatni. Brotherhood members, however, are barred from joining any other party. The Moslem Brüderbund is seen as the country's most organised political force after Hosni Mubarak ...The former President-for-Life of Egypt, dumped by popular demand in early 2011... was deposed as president in February. The elections will be the first since the popular uprising. The Moslem Brüderbund remains Egypt's best organised opposition group despite a campaign by Mubarak's government to suppress it. It successfully fielded candidates in previous parliamentary elections as independents. | ||
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 But there seem to be an awful lot of that Muslim Brotherhood trash, and they've been organized for almost a century, Anonymoose. Those typical Egyptians need to understand that "natural superiority" does not guarantee them anything in the coming situation. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2011-05-01 15:16 |
| #1 The typical Egyptian on the street sees MB as "poor Bedouin trash", mostly rural peasants that aren't even Egyptian, but some other type of 'Arab', used in the derisive sense by Arabs, referring to other, foreign Arabs. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-05-01 08:51 |