Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood representative Essam el-Arian speaks during a press conference after talks with the government,Cairo, February 6, 2011. Opponents of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's embattled regime dismissed as insufficient an offer to include them in political reform plans, and renewed their demands that he step down." title="Muslim Brotherhood " class="imagecache imagecache-highslide_zoom">Young brotherhood group members to revolt and dissolve the bureau and the group’s Shura Council is strange and contradicts the group’s ethics, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Guidance Bureau said.
Young group members had called for an internal “revolution” by 30,000 members against the group leadership on 17 March. They demanded that former General Guide Mohamed Mahdi Akef lead the group for an interim period until new elections are held for the bureau and the council.
“We are not a group of old people as some may think,” said bureau member Abdel Rahman al-Barr. “Talk of a revolution is bizarre.”
Bureau member Saad al-Husseiny, for his part, denied meeting with representatives of the group young members. “Let’s see what happens on 17 March,” he said.
Meanwhile, other young members of the group launched a counter campaign on Facebook, accusing those calling for a revolution of attempting to incite discord within the group.
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