El-Erian warns America Egyptians ‘ready to say enough’
The spokesman of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood Essam El-Erian accused the United States of interfering in the Egyptian revolution and warned that the people who were able to say “enough to Mubarak…are ready to say enough to everybody.”
“America is still making fatal mistakes as America, and you know what I mean. It must review its strategy, and listen to the people, not listen to the regimes. You are biased till now, biased. You are hypocritical,” El-Erian said in an interview with the Cairo Review of Global Affairs published on Monday.
He pointed out that the United States is trying to determine the outcome of political change in his country but said Americans will not find any leadership to “negotiate with… and to satisfy” because “now the people are in the game.”
The regime of ousted President Hosni Mubarak often portrayed the Muslim Brotherhood movement as a threat to democracy in order to clamp down on freedom of expression and consolidate his grip on power without drawing harsh Western criticism.
The Brotherhood have consistently indicated they have no intentions to seek power, but fears remain inside and outside the country that Egypt could come out of a democratic process as an Islamic state.
El-Erian again tried to dispel such fears saying the brotherhood’s strategy does not include seeking power.
“We are not seeking power. I say that frankly. Believe us,” he said.
He said the Brotherhood’s role in the Egyptian society has not and will not change after the revolution insisting the movement is and will remain an “organization, institution, group working for the people in all aspects of life.”
El-Erian said that after the revolution the Muslim Brotherhood continued to play a role in politics but not in the “narrow perception” of a political party that seeks to attract the support of the majority people and achieve power.
(Written by Mustapha Ajbaili)
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