Lawsuit brings Brotherhood degrees into question

Egypt’s State Council has received a lawsuit demanding the Minister of Higher Education Dr Al-Sayed Abdul Khaliq form a committee which includes members of the Supreme Council of Universities-Egypt to re-examine all postgraduate degrees granted to members of the Muslim Brotherhood who work at the institutions.

The case was brought forward by the We are the People party, which is being formed and includes 270 former members of the dissolved National Democratic Party.

A large number of Muslim Brotherhood members hold postgraduate degrees including ousted President Mohamed Morsi who worked as a professor at the Faculty of Engineering at Zagazig University and the group’s General Guide Dr Mohammed Badie who was a professor at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at the Beni-Suef University.

We are the People deputy founders Mahmoud Nafady said the case also calls to review theses that professors from group supervised. “Those who betray their homeland and conspire against it can easily betray their scientific secretariat,” he said.

In a statement, Nafady claimed that Brotherhood professors did favours for one another.

The We are the People party says June 30, 2013, is the “Mother Revolution” and call to “cleanse Egypt from the Muslim Brotherhood”. The party plans to compete in the upcoming parliamentary elections scheduled in 2015.