Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood: We will fight peacefully until the revolution's goals are achieved

The Muslim Brotherhood will continue their peaceful struggle against the Egyptian authorities until the demands of the revolution are achieved in full, the group’s acting supreme general guide said on Saturday.

Mahmoud Ezzat, who is working underground, said in a statement that the Muslim Brotherhood stresses that it will continue to call for religion with wisdom and good advice, and will remain on the path that was charted by the Hassan Al-Banna, who founded the group in 1928, in a peaceful struggle to restore citizens’ freedom and dignity.

“It is a desirable thing for us that our souls be sacrificed for our nation and the freedom of our people and the support of our Islamic nation,” The Anadolu Agency reported him saying.

“We pledge, to God and to all the revolutionary and nationalist forces, of which we are part, to continue the peaceful revolutionary struggle … until the goals of the revolution are achieved.”

The Brotherhood’s Supreme Guide, Mohammed Badie, has been detained for more than two years on several charges which his lawyers consider political. He has received several life sentences.

Egyptian President and Muslim Brotherhood member Mohamed Morsi was ousted from power in a military coup in July 2013.