Alwaght- Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood spokesman Mohamed Montaser has said the ongoing non-violent revolutionary resistance is capable of facing up to the murderous machine of repression, violence and death that is now destroying the country.
According to a report by, Ikhwanweb, he added that this revolutionary resistance has been going on non-stop since July 3, 2013 and until today.
The top Muslim Brotherhood official added that revolutionaries are forcing the coup regime to review its political and other positions. He noted that two years on, and despite the military junta's policies of extreme violence and repression, the resistance has remained focused.
In response to a question regarding initiatives for reconciliation between the Muslim Brotherhood and Egypt’s military-backed regime, Montaser rejected such an initiative, saying: "No-one offered us any initiatives, and we did not offer any either. The situation now is no longer a crisis that can be resolved with initiatives. The situation is much more atrocious. Innocent blood is being spilled in the streets; detainees are languishing in junta prisons; and whole families are homeless on the streets of Egypt. Nothing will satisfy the men and women of the 2011 Revolution but fair and prompt retribution from the barbaric murderous militias.”
He reiterated that, “we realize that revolutions are not served on a silver or gold platter... Revolutions have a price, and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, at the heart of the revolutionary resistance, is ready and willing to pay that price. This means we cannot retreat, even if they fire live bullets at us."
Meanwhile Egypt’s ousted President Mohammed Morsi has filed an appeal against a death sentence given to him over a jail break during the rule of former dictator Hosni Mubarak.
Muslim Brotherhood's top lawyer said Saturday that he had presented an appeal to Egypt’s Court of Cassation for the over 100 prisoners sentenced in the case, including Morsi.
Egyptian courts upheld both the death and life sentences in June, defying an international outrage over President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s heavy-handed crackdown on dissent.
Hundreds have been sentenced to death since Sisi deposed Morsi in July 2013 and replaced him a few weeks later in what was branded as a coup d’état against Egypt’s first democratically elected president.