Brotherhood calls for its members to defend its leaders

The head of the Supreme Administrative Committee of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed Abdullah Al-Morsi, yesterday urged the group’s supporters to rise up in the face of increased targeting of the group’s leaders and members by Egyptian authorities.

In a message, Al-Morsi said: “Our allegiance to Allah makes it obligatory to move and defend our brothers and leaders. We have to take to the streets to reject the oppression against them.”

“We have to support their steadfastness against the regime’s plot of target them.”

A couple of weeks ago, Egyptian police raided an apartment, where three Muslim Brotherhood members were hiding. The police claimed that they were the masterminds of the group’s military wing and they were killed during a shootout.

The group does not have a military wing and has been insisting that it does not and would never adopt anything except peaceful ways to fight oppression. It accused the Egyptian “regime” of “targeting” its leaders.

“Put your hands in the hands of your leaders and this way each side bolsters the other and you become one united entity,” he said.