Ibrahim Mounir, Deputy General Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood, praised the movement that Egypt has been witnessing since September 20, and said that it represents a positive start for the Egyptian people, who have begun to break the barrier of fear and abandon the negativity that they have suffered from throughout the last period.
In exclusive statements to Al-Jazeera Net, Mounir, who became the de facto leader of the group recently, said that the Egyptian people seem to have suddenly woken up to the current reality, and began to feel after 7 years of military rule.
And separate areas of the country witnessed demonstrations that began last Sunday after a call by the artist and army contractor, the dissident Muhammad Ali, to come out against the current president, Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, on the impact of a number of internal crises that Egyptians have suffered recently, chiefly the demolition of houses, claiming that they violated building requirements, as well as a dam crisis. The Ethiopian Renaissance threatens Egypt's share of the Nile River water.
Munir avoided providing a direct answer about the possibility of the group - which is the largest entity in the opposition's ranks - to participate in the demonstrations that complete its fourth day, and said, "The Muslim Brotherhood will not fail in any honorable patriotic action in Egypt, and the group and its members will not precede the Egyptian people and will not be late for it," They live with him and suffer from what he suffers. "
On the increase in anger and the escalation of the movement calling for the ouster of Sisi, Mounir said that this is positive for the people, stressing that “the Sisi regime is now suppressing its anger,” and he expects to deal with this movement just as former President Anwar Sadat dealt with the movement of 1977, by changing some faces in government in order to Please street.
Egypt witnessed demonstrations on 18 and 19 January 1977 in several cities, after Sadat made a decision to lift government support for some basic commodities, such as bread, rice, sugar, tea and gasoline, while it was known at the time as the "bread uprising" which ended with the president's retreat and the change of some Responsible.
Sporadic demonstrations have erupted in Egypt since last Sunday (Al-Jazeera)
Necks suffocate
Regarding the anger in the hearts of Egyptians, Mounir said that the reason for this is Sisi's policies and procedures that are not only based on the demolition of homes and mosques only, but also extend to the deterioration of the economy, all the way to the people’s neck that is almost suffocating and there is no longer patience and silence as a result of the wrong policy of the military coup. .
Munir explained that the people now refuse to pay money to the army or police that kill him, and the Egyptians are beginning to ask: Why are we patient with Sisi as he drains Egypt's money into fake and unproductive projects, such as the new administrative capital, and there are those who live in dilapidated housing and do not find water, food and education And health.
He pointed out that Sisi and his regime led the Egyptian people to not feel patriotism by dwarfing the nation, stressing that the platforms on which Sisi and his regime, whether media or political, have lost their influence on the people and no longer have the ability to continue polishing the president.
It is worth noting that the Brotherhood announced a few days ago, through its media spokesperson Talaat Fahmy, that Munir, the deputy general guide, became the group's first official and the acting guide of the Egyptian Brotherhood.
The Brotherhood’s guide, Mohamed Badie, has been with most of the group’s leaders and thousands of its members in prison since the coup carried out by the current president (Sisi) when he was defense minister in July 2013, during which he overthrew the late Muhammad Morsi, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, who was the first elected civilian president in modern Egypt.