Press Release
Declaration of the Muslim Brotherhood a Terrorist Organization by the Interim Government is an Attempt to Terrorize All Those Confronting the Coup Authority
(Translated)

On Wednesday 25/12/2013, Al Beblawi government declared the Muslim Brotherhood a "terrorist organization". The declaration comes a day after 16 people were killed in a bombing targeting the security directorate building in Dakahlia Province, north of the country. The announcement was made despite the absence of any evidence of a link of the Muslim Brotherhood group to the blasting, and despite the fact that a group called "Ansar Bayt al Maqdis" has claimed responsibility for the bombing!

The announcement of Dr. Hazem Albeblawi through the Cabinet spokesman came shortly after the bombing, which confirms the intention to exploit the event to consider the group a terrorist organization by law. The Interior Ministry spokesman Gen. Hani Abdel-Latif, said in a press statement on Thursday, 26^th December, that designation of the Muslim Brotherhood group as a "terrorist" organization will mean a death penalty for those who lead demonstrations organized by the group, "even if she was a woman", stressing that those who participate in demonstrations affiliated to the group will be punished with five years imprisonment.

It is not surprising that the government accuses the Brotherhood group before carrying out any serious investigation into the incident to find out who perpetrated the attack and who incited it; since it is from the first moment of the coup that the interim government deals with the group and its members as a terrorist group. The coup authority did not stop for a moment the prosecution, arrest, imprisonment and murder. In addition they, the group assembly, was dissolved and its properties have been seized, and more recently the Central Bank announced the freezing of funds of 1055 nongovernmental organizations, the coup authorities, said that some of them are linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, and others sympathizing with it. The Bank notified all banks, numbering 40 banks, about seizing the funds of these associations.

We are not in defense of the Muslim Brotherhood, and we have stated in many previous releases the prohibition of participation in the current secular regimes; whether in the presidency of the Republic, or in the ministries. It has also been proven that this path besides being haram, it would not work, and will not alter the adverse reality in any way, and that the right action is to work for a radical comprehensive change, which completely removes the current corrupt system and applies Islam fully and at once, just as the Messenger of Allah (saw) did. However, we at the same time reject the accusation of anyone without any real evidence except simply being motivated by the desire for revenge and retaliation and resolving the conflict in favor of the coup and its remnants, particularly that the interim government have not so far revealed any evidence to substantiate the group's involvement in terrorist acts.

The announcement of the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group by the government is an attempt to terrorize all those opposing the coup authority, and is an execution of a deliberate intention to fight the Islamic movement as a whole and to label it with terrorism. This government was supposed to announce its resignation, or at least to dismiss the Interior Minister, before considering issuing indictment without any real evidence.

It is strange that no one indicted or even remotely referred to the Jewish Intelligence, or to Western Intelligence who are operating comfortably in Egypt to achieve their malicious goals..., as Egypt was and remains a hotbed of intelligence of colonial countries, and these countries have the sole goal to keep Egypt a secular state or quasi-secular under their influence and domination, shackled by a permanent peace treaty with the Jews, and by "strategic" relations with the state of disbelief, America.

Under such deteriorating security situation in Egypt and the intense conflict between the disputing parties over authority; We say to everyone that there is no security, no safety and no value for humans except under an Islamic Khilafah "Caliphate" on the method of Prophethood, where the ruler is a shield behind whom people fight and by whom they are protected, securing the blood, the property and the honor of his citizens. We in Hizb ut Tahrir call on everyone to work with us to re-establish the Khilafah "Caliphate" state in Egypt; to end the continual bloodshed. It is only the Khilafah "Caliphate" state that will bring security and peace for all the people in Egypt, whether they are Muslims or non-Muslims.

[وَلَيَنْصُرَنَّ اللَّهُ مَنْ يَنْصُرُهُ إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَقَوِيٌّ عَزِيزٌ]

"And Allah will surely support those who support Him. Indeed, Allah is Powerful and Exalted in Might". [Al-Hajj: 40]

Sharif Zayed
Head of the Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir
in Wilayah of Egypt