MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD SAYS WON’T BOW TO ‘TERRORISM’, VOWS TO END ‘COUP’

       Cairo, 29 Syawal 1434/4 September 2013 (MINA) –  The Muslim Brotherhood has said that the Egyptian people will not bow to what it called “terrorism”, vowing to end the “military coup” at any cost.

        In a Wednesday statement, the Islamist group said protests staged by supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi over the past two months “tell the world that we will not bow to force and terrorism and that we will end the military coup at any cost”.

 Egypt has been in a state of turmoil since the military ousted Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically elected president, on July 3 following mass protests against his presidency.

The unconstitutional change of government is described by supporters of the Islamist president as a “military coup,” while his opponents describe it as a military-backed uprising.

The Muslim Brotherhood said the “excessive brutality” by the coup leaders “shows their weakness”, Anadolu Agency quoted by Mi’raj News Agency (MINA) as reporting.

Hundreds of  anti-coup protesters were killed when security forces violently dispersed two major protest camps in Cairo last month.

The Brotherhood called on “the masses to take to the streets everywhere until the bloody usurpers find no way but to leave”.

Egyptian authorities have unleashed a massive crackdown on Brotherhood leaders since the bloody August 14 dispersal of two anti-coup sit-ins, in which hundreds of demonstrators were killed by security forces.

Since then, Egypt’s military-backed authorities have rounded up hundreds of the group’s senior and mid-ranking members, topped by Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie and deputies Khairat al-Shater and Rashad Bayoumi. (T/P08/E1)

Mi’raj News Agency (MINA)