Algeria’s Brotherhood ending up like its Egyptian parent organization

Shaimaa Hefzi

Algeria’s Muslim Brotherhood has been taking advantage of political events in Algeria since the beginning of the year, following the example of Egypt’s Brotherhood, which sought to make gains following the popular revolt nine years ago.

The terrorist Muslim Brotherhood organization has an arm — Movement of Society for Peace — in Algeria. The Movement was founded in 1990 by Sheikh Mahfoud Nahnah.

The Movement took part in a presidential alliance with late president Abdelaziz Bouteflika for 10 years. However, it withdrew from that alliance in 2012.

Algeria’s Brotherhood is robbing public revolutions. The beginning was using the popular protests, which called for improving the living conditions, to make political gains. The same thing happened in Egypt.

Prior to the January 25 Revolution in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood had strong ties with the ruling regime based on mutual interests. Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood was exposed after it assumed power in 2012 as Egyptians revolted its rule a year later.

Abderrazak Makri, the head of Movement of Society for Peace, accused in a statement this month the secular extremists of seizing the authority – as he put it. He claimed that the Muslim Brotherhood was fighting to form a civil government.

Makri said Algeria has been in danger since the 1990s, but this danger has rather intensified in recent years. He claimed that the power in Algeria is being transferred from the military to the extremist seculars, who want to rob the popular movement in the country.

He claimed that the polls were rigged, noting that the extremist seculars have turned the political parties into stores for assuming public office. He claimed that these parties do not do anything but to seek power without any real toil for freedoms and democracy – as he put it.