Wael Hosni - Al Jazeera Net
"The inclusion of the Islamic Group on the list of terrorist entities in Egypt completely negates all rules of reason, logic and even politics," said former head of the Egyptian Party for Construction and Development Tariq al-Zumur.
The Egyptian authorities on Sunday included the Islamic Group and a number of its leaders in the list of terrorist entities for five years, according to the official newspaper published.
According to the Egyptian fact sheet, 164 members of the Jemaah Islamiah were listed on the terrorist lists for the same period. "The Brotherhood was established in violation of the provisions of the law, with the aim of calling for the disobeying of the constitution and laws, preventing state institutions and public authorities from carrying out their activities, To citizens and public rights and damage to national unity ", in accordance with the decision of the Criminal Court of Cairo.
Al-Zomor explained in a special statement to Al-Jazeera Net that the stigmatization of the Islamic Group in terrorism does not deviate from the context of demonizing all the symbols and entities of the opposition, and consider them terrorist organizations from the Islamists and through some leftist and liberal forces, but sports gatherings such as Alters.
He pointed out that the Islamic Group launched more than twenty years ago reviews of the rejection of violence is the first in the history of the Arab world and strictly adhered to all the time, and when it had the opportunity to work legal and constitutional after the revolution of January 25 initiated to legalize the situation, and the position of all leaders of the Islamic Group and their views Declared and undeclared affirm their rejection of violence as a means of political dealings.
And warned that the stigmatization of the Egyptian regime of the Islamic Group of terrorism to provide a solution to the Party of Construction and Development, especially as the judiciary is considering a lawsuit demanding the dissolution of the party.
The party affairs department in the Supreme Administrative Court has closed the case of the Political Parties Committee, which calls for the dissolution of the BDP and the liquidation of its funds and determining the party to which it belongs, to rule on the 16 February session.
Unification of the opposition
In another context, the group paid the invitation of the former director of the International Atomic Energy Agency Mohamed ElBaradei to unite the Egyptian opposition, pointing out that the rescue of Egypt will pass only through the broad national alignment, which does not exclude any faction or a political symbol.
ElBaradei called a few days ago in a tweet to publish through his account on Twitter to unite the opposition and reject the differences between the spectrum.
"What I see as a focus since the revolution on our divisions into liberals, socialists, Islamists and other names that have led to the deviation of the revolution must stop immediately if we want to build the nation," he wrote in the twinkle.
Al-Zomor stressed the need to seize ElBaradei's call to reunite the ranks of the opposition with the need to take advantage of the mistakes of the previous experience, and to have a full vision to save the country from what it came back and return it to the map of the world.
Al-Zumar, who is currently the head of Hurriyat Center for Political and Strategic Studies, said that the opportunity today may be better for saving Egypt, especially after the regional despotism failed to achieve any form of political stability.