Egypt's Muslim Brothers deny Mubarak's accusation to them of terrorism
Egypt, Politics, 12/22/2004

The Muslim Brothers movement has rejected the accusations of terrorism addressed to it by the Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak.

Member of the guidance office of the Muslim brothers group Abdul Menem Abu al-Fattouh said that the Muslims Brothers have not been at any day advocated violence.

He indicated that the successive "revolution's governments" are the one which practices terrorism against Muslim Brothers, and an evidence on that was the killing of the intellectual of this movement Abdul Qader Odeh and its founder Sayed Qutb and others at the hands of these governments.

On the other hand, the first guide for Muslim Brothers, Muhammad Habib, said that Muslim Brothers are the most sincere and careful to serve their homeland, rejecting being described as terrorists.

He indicated in a statement that the Muslim Brothers have been calling with other political and national forces of political reforms as a genuine entrance to all forms of reforms on the ground that the state of political stalemate in Egypt is behind scientific and technological backwardness in addition to severe economic crisis the country suffers.

However, in his statement to a German magazine Mubarak said that "the Muslim Brothers group had a terrorist history," accusing it of killing one former prime minister ( under the royal rule) and the assassination attempt of President Jamal Abdul Nasser in 1954.

Mubarak added "the Muslim Brothers are the last our country needs. Religious hatred or ethnical hatred split societies as a whole. Religious parties threaten social peace."

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