Before June 30, MB confused, begging supporters

On the eighth anniversary of the June 30 revolution, and from the memory of the Egyptian media during that period, Abdel-Rehim Ali, Egyptian thinker, CEO of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies in Paris, and Editor-in-Chief for Al-Bawaba Newspaper, has said the Muslim Brotherhood is a politically confused group, and is constantly working on the reaction.

He added that the Brotherhood has a goal that is difficult to achieve in Egypt, which is the full empowerment of the joints of the Egyptian state.

The 30 June protests occurred in Egypt on 30 June 2013, ending with the ouster of former president and member of the Muslim Brotherhood Mohamed Morsi after mass protests across Egypt demanding his immediate resignation.

Ali said in a televised interview with journalist Osama Kamal on his show “Cairo 360” that the Egyptian state has been around for over 7000 years, and it has a national army of the oldest armies in the region, in addition to the oldest police, oldest information and intelligence agency, and the oldest civilization.

Therefore, according to Ali, the Egyptian people were a lot tougher to control than what the Muslim Brotherhood expected, which confused the group and startled their schemes.

He pointed out that the Brotherhood began to beg citizens in the governorates of Egypt, providing them with transfer means, and paying them money to come to the Rabaa Al-Adawiya Square, and despite that, they were clearly short in numbers.

Ali explained the dimensions of Rabaa Al-Adawiya Square and its neighboring areas, which are proven according to agencies that this whole area only fits from 90 to 140 thousand people only.

This gathering, however, for the Brotherhood was the lifeline, through which it tried to demonstrate that Mohamed Morsi is the country's legitimate leader, Ali explained.

Ali added, during the interview that was aired on June 23, 2013, that state agencies are arranging themselves on June 30; This is because they want to maintain the security of the country, which made the Brotherhood in a state of confusion and terror.

Reasons for demanding Morsi's resignation included accusations of increasing authoritarianism and his pushing through an extreme Islamist agenda, not to mention the apparent grip that the Muslim Brotherhood had on him and state agencies at the time.

The uprising concluded seven months of protests that started when the Morsi government issued a highly controversial constitutional declaration that gave him temporary sweeping powers over the state's judicial system.

It is pertinent to mention that weeks before the demonstrations, Coptic Christians received threats from Morsi's supporters, pressuring them not to take part in the protests.

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