The Muslim Brotherhood asked the Egyptian authorities for “pardon in exchange for retiring from political work, provided that all its detained members are released.”
Maged Abdullah, a media figure for the Muslim Brotherhood on the Al-Sharq satellite channel, which broadcasts from Turkey, revealed in a broadcast on his own YouTube channel that “Helmy El-Gazzar, the deputy of Dr. Salah Abdel Haq, the acting guide of the group, officially asked him to convey a message through his channel demanding that the authorities in Egypt pardon the group in exchange for completely retiring from politics and releasing its members detained in Egyptian prisons.”
Abdullah said that “Al-Jazzar” asked him to convey on his behalf that the group is ready to reconcile with the authorities and political forces in Egypt, and to accept their initiative for reconciliation, pledging that the group would abandon political work for periods ranging between 10 and 15 years, and forget what happened during the past 11 years since the group’s rule was overthrown in the summer of 2013.
He commented: Egyptian media figure and MP Mustafa Bakri responded to this call, saying: The initiative launched by “Helmy El-Gazzar”, the deputy general guide of the Muslim Brotherhood in London, and presented in the media by “Majed Abdullah”, one of the group’s cadres, which calls on the Egyptian authorities to pardon convicted members of the group in exchange for retiring from politics, has sparked controversy and sharp disagreement among the group’s members. Here I will pause at a number of points.
He added: “Launching this initiative is evidence that the group has reached a stage of despair and the end of its project, which it launched to seek to return to power once again, and its loss of popular support and its realization that the revolution project against the ruling regime in Egypt has failed, and that the public’s confidence in all their proposals is almost non-existent.”
He continued, “The call comes in light of the intensification of differences among their ranks abroad between the London front and the Turkish front, in addition to their awareness and certainty of the failure of the political Islam project in the region, after the experiences of rule in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Morocco and Sudan.”
Bakri said, “The pressures exerted by the convicts in prisons to accept any solution that leads to their pardon, and it seems that this initiative will increase the intensity of the division within the group, which will make matters more complicated between them, and in return this means a new victory for the Egyptian state, its institutions, its leadership and its national constants.”
It is noteworthy that in 2019, the youth of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt launched an initiative to reconcile with the state, and 1,350 members of the group in Egyptian prisons sent a letter to state officials requesting amnesty, announcing their desire to review the ideas they adopted when they joined the group, and expressing their complete readiness to abandon them, violence, and their loyalty to the group and its leaders.
Last updated: August 25, 2024 – 14:31
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