The secret files of the Muslim Brotherhood: Episode 11

This chain of articles is firmly focused on shedding light on the dark history and bloody crimes committed by the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood organization since it was first established.

On February 24, 1945, Ahmed Maher Pasha was heading to the House of Representatives to deliver a statement.

While passing through the Pharaonic lobby, a young man named Mahmoud Al-Essawy immediately shot him dead.

Maher Pasha was a politician who served as the prime minister of Egypt from 10 October 1944 to 24 February 1945.

After assuming power, he called for new elections and opposed the candidacies of members of the Muslim Brotherhood.

He was only four months in office when he was assassinated, having come to power in October 1944.

A number of Muslim Brotherhood members were arrested after the incident, including Hassan Al-Banna, the founder of the outlawed group, and Al-Essawy as well, but days later, they were released because Al-Essawy recognized his affiliation with the National Party.

After the release of the group’s leaders, none of them mentioned his relationship with Al-Essawy, but later, this relationship was exposed.

Senior member of the Muslim Brotherhood Guidance Bureau Ahmed Hassan El-Bakoory says in his book ‘The Remains of Memories’ that the identities of members of the Brotherhood’s Special Apparatus were kept a secret.

He recalls that circles of the Brotherhood sought to retaliate against Al-Banna’s failure at the elections, as they thought it was a conspiracy against the Brotherhood, and one particular young lawyer was so keen about the idea of taking revenge.

This lawyer, namely Al-Essawy, was being trained at the law firm of a prominent National Party member.

The incident happened in the Egyptian parliament while he was presenting the proposal to declare war against the Axis Powers in World War II, primarily to gain a diplomatic advantage at the end of the war.

The Muslim Brotherhood, however, saw it as the perfect timing for the assassination of the prime minister.

This was just the dawn of a bloody history written by the Muslim Brotherhood; As years later, in December 1948, Mahmoud Fahmy El Nokrashy Pasha, an Egyptian political figure and prime minister, was gunned down by Abdel Meguid Ahmed Hassan, who was a veterinary student at the University of King Fouad I and a member of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Nokrashy Pasha was killed in the main building of the Ministry of Interior by Abdel Meguid, who was disguised as a lieutenant.

Then, the Muslim Brotherhood saw Ibrahim Abdel Hady Pasha, the 28th Prime Minister from 28 December 1948 until 26 July 1949, as an extension of Nokrashy Pasha, so they decided to get rid of him as well.

So, indeed they ambushed a car that they thought was carrying Abdel Hady Pasha, but as their were arrested, they got released after the 1952 Revolution.

This blood shedding extended to reach the rows of the Muslim Brotherhood itself; When Al-Banna appointed Sayed Fayez responsible for the Special Apparatus instead of Abdul Rahman Al-Sanadi, who was responsible for a series of acts of political violence, the latter decided to assassinate him in order to remove him from his position.

In January 1954, the Muslim Brotherhood organization was outlawed, and on 26 October, an assassination attempt by the Brotherhood, a young Muslim Brother by the name of Mahmoud Abdel-Latif, was directed at president Gamal Abdel Nasser during a rally in Alexandria, Mansheya.

When the Brotherhood member fired at him, Nasser was speaking at Manshiya Square in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria to celebrate the signing of a new treaty with Britain.

Nasser had secretly set up an organization that would sufficiently oppose the Muslim Brotherhood once he came to power.

In 1965, Sayed Qutb, a leading member of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, was accused of plotting to overthrow the state and subjected to a trial that had culminated in a death sentence for Qutb and six other members of the Muslim Brotherhood.

He was sentenced to death for his part in the conspiracy to assassinate the President and other Egyptian officials and personalities.