On the anniversary of the founding of «Construction and Development»… Najih Ibrahim calls on the Islamic Group to dissolve itself

In line with the 7th anniversary of the establishment of the Party of Construction and Development (founded October 2011), the political arm of the Islamic Group in Egypt, the 11th Chamber of the Egyptian Criminal Court in Cairo decided to include 164 members of the party on the lists of terrorism in order to implement the law of terrorist entities. The group and its party, which is facing a lawsuit to dissolve and liquidate its funds, by the Committee on Party Affairs, and is awaiting the hearing of February 16 next to pronounce the verdict, against the backdrop of the election of the fugitive terrorist Tareq al-Zomor, president of «Construction and Development», in May 2017.

For his part, Dr. Najah Ibrahim, one of the historical leaders of the group, believes that the future of «construction and development» and other Islamic organizations and groups in Egypt has become threatened after this decision.

He asked them to solve themselves and get rid of burdens not before them, and the policy is launched indefinitely, so as not to become a burden on these groups of their children, so there is no pretext for prosecution and security, but ruled out the Islamic Group and similar to this step.

Ibrahim said in a statement to the «reference»: «Although the dissolution of the Islamic groups organizationally for themselves will benefit the Islamic movement before others, the leaders of these groups have neither the thought nor the courage to take this important step».

Alignment for violence

On the other hand, Hisham al-Najjar, an expert on Islamic groups, predicted that the inclusion of names of leaders and members of the BDP on the list of terrorist entities would negatively affect the party’s political and legal position, In February 2019, after the Party Committee referred the file to the top management.

Al-Najjar confirmed in a statement that the party and the group did not do a strong parallel and rewarding work for the extent to which they have been involved in recent years with the Muslims Brotherhood and the Salafist jihadist groups, which would convince observers, the public and the judiciary of the validity of their position. Practices and attitudes outside of their control were carried out individually.

He added that the group was supposed to declare clear positions on the separation with MB and the groups of violence, and are reintegrated into the political situation and party practice, including participation in the elections, which did not happen, in addition to the presence of leaders of the party and the group involved in cases of violence and incitement, Meaning that this option was not an individual but came from the levels of the leadership of the group and the party.

Al-Najjar pointed out that the main problem is the nature of the act and the practice on the ground away from the allegations and allegations, the attempts of late withdrawals and the speeches that come at the end of each disaster and the dilemma of an attempt to absolve and break the impasse.

This is what became the approach of the group, which exercises its convictions, In the minds of their leaders, of old outdated perceptions, and then trying to evade the bill of what she had committed, after the disaster, to export a letter blending the oppressor and letters of apology bluntly.

He explained that the practice on the ground has remained the same without any change.

He added “The group still exists without dismantling its traditional form and approach, and there is no separation between the partisan political path and the organizational track, and the group’s position is consistent with the internal affairs.

It is not familiar with developments and developments, The MB`S narrative, as well as the position of the group and the party on regional and Arab issues, as it has not changed, is completely opposed to the position of the Egyptian state and its national and Arab options, which are keen on Egyptian national security and Arab national security. ”

He concluded: “The Islamic Group is biased towards the violent organizations and the Brotherhood and al-Qaeda factions that strike the Arab armies and the state institutions in Libya and Syria and are aligned with the strategy of Qatar and Turkey in exchange for the Egyptian and Arab strategy, alongside the disaster of the fugitive leaderships, which is clear from their speech and positions that they were not far from what MB and its allies Of armed violence organizations against violence and terrorism against the Egyptian state, its institutions, symbols and men over the past years.

There is no doubt that all these facts, in addition to the recent action against the party leaders, will play a role in predicting the ruling to dissolve the party and Issued his money and the funds of his leadership ».