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UK not in favor of ban on Brotherhood
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A British government review into Egypt’s outlawed Muslim Brotherhood published yesterday concluded that membership of or links to the political group should be considered a possible indicator of extremism but that it should not be banned.
The long-delayed review into the organization was first commissioned in April 2014 by Prime Minister David Cameron with a remit to examine whether the group put British national security at risk.
“Parts of the Muslim Brotherhood have a highly ambiguous relationship with violent extremism. Both as an ideology and as a network it has been a rite of passage for some individuals and groups who have gone on to engage in violence and terrorism,” Cameron said in a statement. He described the group as “deliberately opaque, and habitually secretive.”
“The main findings of the review support the conclusion that membership of, association with, or influence by the Muslim Brotherhood should be considered as a possible indicator of extremism,” he said.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi launched the toughest crackdown on Islamists in Egypt’s modern history after toppling President Mohamed Mursi of the Brotherhood in 2013. Sisi classifies the Brotherhood as a terrorist group, but on a visit to Britain in November he said it could again play a role in public life if Egyptians wanted it to return.
The Brotherhood, the Middle East’s oldest Islamist movement and long Egypt’s main political opposition, criticized the review as being unacceptable and politically motivated.
The group said the British position suggested it backed the military’s overthrow of Mursi.
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