The 85-year old organization remains committed to peaceful protest, as it exhorts all Egyptians – young and old, Muslims and Christians – to join ranks and wrest their rights and freedoms and the January 25 Revolution from the brutal, bloody putschists.

The bloody putschists are persistently trying to discredit the Revolution of truth, justice and freedom, and to spread any lies and misinformation to demonize it, pitting people against it, taking advantage of the powerful media machine they control to brain-wash the people and falsify facts.

The coup commanders’ intelligence and security apparatus seek to frame Islamists by burning churches or some Egyptian Christians’ property, or paying some criminal thugs to carry out these heinous acts. They also remove security protection, delay police response to attacks on such Christian buildings, and refrain from arresting the perpetrators of those crimes.

Since it was established 85 years ago, the Muslim Brotherhood – the largest Islamist organization – has never undertaken even one violent action against their fellow Christians. On the contrary, on many occasions and in many incidents, various Islamic groups created human shields to protect Egyptian churches in the face of threats of violence.

All Islamist groups have condemned with the utmost clarity all criminal acts of violence against churches and property. Recently, news reports confirmed the arrest of a criminal gang responsible for a lot of these crimes.

Our Revolution also knows well that the evil hands that burned mosques and violated their sanctity are the same sinful hand that attacked the churches. Our great peaceful revolution realizes that all these heinous malicious attempts will not break our national unity, and will not change the Egyptians’ ages-old spirit of tolerance.

On the other hand, the putschists have committed many unspeakable atrocities against Egypt and Egyptians. They spilled the precious blood of so many Egyptians unlawfully. They made false accusations against free and honorable revolutionaries, and adopted a discourse of hatred, mistrust and exclusion in a persistent, non-stop campaign against the Revolution.

The putschists unleashed a mighty wave of repression and violence against the people as they ousted the legitimate elected President, suspended the constitution, used maximum armed force to grab power, against the will of the people, and exploited the people’s army to kill rather than protect the people.

The whole nation must come out peacefully against the coup. Everyone must participate positively in all peaceful actions against the coup, and create new innovative actions. We must devise peaceful protests that will pressure the nerves of the junta. We must unleash a gradual civil disobedience throughout the nation.

The Revolution against the Mubarak regime, the military regime and the putschist junta should not die down or fade away. It must innovate for itself new, more effective forms and peaceful tools. Our Revolution must unite all the people and active groups and movements.

The biggest goal now is to restore the January 25 Revolution, before anything else. It is the goal that should unite all January 25 revolutionaries, as well as all the sons and daughters of this homeland, to re-draw the portrait of the all-embracing revolution that dazzled the world on January 25, 2011 with its peacefulness and its inclusion of all segments of society and all political colors, and its true revolutionary purity.

Our non-violence will remain stronger than their bullets. Our blood will defeat their swords and live bullets, and free popular will shall ultimately triumph, God willing. The armies of the junta and Mubarak’s cronies will be defeated. Soon enough, all will come to pass.   »»» Ikhwanweb

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