Rabat – The vice president of the International Union of Muslim Scholars and former leader of the Movement for Unity and Reform (URM), Ahmed Raissouni, said, “I was very comfortable with the overthrow of [Egypt’s] Mohamed Morsi. I was in fact happy because the presidency is irrelevant.”
In an interview with the Moroccan weekly newspaper Al-Ayam Al-Ousbouiya, the Moroccan scholar said, “I was aware that the quick emergence and rise of the Muslim Brotherhood were abnormal. However, the problem is not only the coup and the overthrow of Morsi – it’s the bloodbath, tyranny and the cancel of all the benefits of the revolution.”
With respect to the political dimension of the Muslim Brotherhood’s candidacy for Egypt’s presidency amidst Egypt’s revolution that started on 25 January 2011, Raissouni said that “The Muslim Brotherhood’ candidacy for Presidency was a mistake, and so their swift handle of state responsibilities rests on supreme rank alone. Otherwise, the whole state structure would be against them.
“The doctrine that every state servant adopted was anti-Muslim Brotherhood and focused on fighting them. So how can he [Morsi] rule those people,” Raissouni said.
He went on to reveal that “during their visit to Morocco two months ahead of the Egypt’s presidential elections, I, and some members of the URM and the Justice and Development Party (PJD) advised many leaders of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood not to elect their candidate as Egypt’s president.”
“The Muslim Brotherhood’s [members] have been subject to prison, exile, and assassination for 80 years and the history of Egypt’s modern state includes struggle against them,” Raissouni added.
