US research shows transformation of MB to use violence

CAIRO – 30 July 2017: U.S. Hudson Institute issued a research on Sunday showing the transformation of Egyptian outlawed Muslim Brotherhood to use violence, as a new methodology after losing power in 2013.

In the research titled “The Rise of the Violent Muslim Brotherhood,” research fellow at George Washington University's Program on Extremism, Mokhtar Awad, said that the group from the past had no trouble in reconciling clandestine violent action while its leader Hassan al-Banna engaged in politics.

The research referred to a book authored by a group of the Brotherhood titled “The Jurisprudence of Popular Resistance to the Coup,” in which it reveals how scholars have successfully attempted to restore the group’s methodology to violence.

This book says that the Brotherhood members who advocate violence do not consider violence as a “negative” word. They think of it as a form of Jihad or “resistance.”

In the book written by Brotherhood members, they stated that “resisting [the regime] does not mean total war that is open on all fronts…between peacefulness and total confrontations are many stages of attrition.”

Brotherhood also said that they didn’t resort to violence in the past and they failed in this strategy, so “it became possible for peoples to use force as an alternative means for change.”

The book concluded that Brotherhood ideology has witnessed a great change since losing power and they resorted to violence.