Cairo Special Envoy - During the rise of this unprecedented challenge in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood have a low profile, distilling comments with caution. Their participation in the first major event, Tuesday, Jan. 25, has been the subject of bitter debate between the leaders of the Brotherhood and the youngest of their activists.
Mohammed Badie, their supreme leader, had ended up publishing a statement announcing that he did not call to participate on behalf of the brotherhood, but that those who wished were free to go there personally. Fear nourished by the leaders, according to several sources within the Brotherhood, was a more active involvement would give the regime the opportunity to make a "scarecrow Islamist" to scare some of the Egyptians and the international community.
Considered the main opposition force, despite the official ban which is the subject, the Brotherhood has repeatedly demonstrated in the past its ability to mobilize the masses. But his relations with the regime, between confrontation and compromise, remain complex. In the parliamentary elections in late 2005, they had managed to win 88 seats in Parliament (elected under the label "independent"), a score that no opposition party had ever reached before being victims of a campaign of mass arrests.
This has intensified with the approach of the parliamentary election, in November 2010. After hesitation, the brothers had decided to participate. But after this election, marred by fraud, they did not win a single seat in Parliament. Friday, if the participation of the Muslim Brotherhood in the demonstration against the regime was now official, it was very difficult to know what they could represent in number among the crowd of Egyptians took to the streets of the capital.
Slogans such as "Islam is the solution", which made their popularity, had been banned by leaders of the Brotherhood and, indeed, have remained invisible in the processions. Galvanized the crowd often chanting "Allah Akbar" (God is greatest "), she prayed, kneeling on the pavement even when the prayer of the afternoon.
Testimony, at most, the importance of religion to the Egyptian people. Cécile Hennion Article published in the edition of 30.01.11 
Mohammed Badie, their supreme leader, had ended up publishing a statement announcing that he did not call to participate on behalf of the brotherhood, but that those who wished were free to go there personally. Fear nourished by the leaders, according to several sources within the Brotherhood, was a more active involvement would give the regime the opportunity to make a "scarecrow Islamist" to scare some of the Egyptians and the international community.
Considered the main opposition force, despite the official ban which is the subject, the Brotherhood has repeatedly demonstrated in the past its ability to mobilize the masses. But his relations with the regime, between confrontation and compromise, remain complex. In the parliamentary elections in late 2005, they had managed to win 88 seats in Parliament (elected under the label "independent"), a score that no opposition party had ever reached before being victims of a campaign of mass arrests.
This has intensified with the approach of the parliamentary election, in November 2010. After hesitation, the brothers had decided to participate. But after this election, marred by fraud, they did not win a single seat in Parliament. Friday, if the participation of the Muslim Brotherhood in the demonstration against the regime was now official, it was very difficult to know what they could represent in number among the crowd of Egyptians took to the streets of the capital.
Slogans such as "Islam is the solution", which made their popularity, had been banned by leaders of the Brotherhood and, indeed, have remained invisible in the processions. Galvanized the crowd often chanting "Allah Akbar" (God is greatest "), she prayed, kneeling on the pavement even when the prayer of the afternoon.
Testimony, at most, the importance of religion to the Egyptian people. Cécile Hennion Article published in the edition of 30.01.11
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