The Shura Council of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan condemned on Thursday Jordanian participation in the US-led coalition against ISIL, as well as the announcement that Jordanian forces targeted ISIL in Ar-Raqqa.
Jordanian newspaper Assabeel reported a statement from the Muslim Brotherhood calling the Jordanian participation in the coalition and targeting ISIL in Syria as a “contradiction with Jordan’s interests.”
The Shura Council considered “the real terrorism that of Zionism, not that of the groups being fought by the US.”
According to the statement the Muslim Brotherhood stressed that the origins of extremism are the corruption and autocracy practiced by the oppressing regimes. This, the Muslim Brotherhood said, is what led to us refusing them as they contradict Islam, a religion that offers a “great model” for freedom, citizenship, coexistence and social peace.
Meanwhile, the Shura Council condemned arresting a number of citizens and Muslim Brotherhood leaders and turning them in to State Security courts, with the claim that they are planning to undermine the country’s regime, in order to justify their arrest and punishment.
The Shura Council also discussed the Western-Iranian coalition with a number of Arab regimes and the conspiracy of this coalition against the peaceful revolution in Yemen. It described this conspiracy as a military coup similar to the one carried out in Egypt.
As a solution the Muslim Brotherhood suggested lifting all restrictions on the freedom of all nations so that people can freely choose their representatives. “This is guaranteed in God’s religion,” the Muslim Brotherhood statement said.