Junior Brotherhood members threatening to establish new front
Junior members of the Muslim Brotherhood will possibly form a new front within the organization.
The new front will compound rifts
inside the organization which has so far been split into two, namely a camp
supporting acting supreme guide Ibrahim Muneer, and another supporting former
secretary-general Mahmud Hussein.
The junior members of the Muslim Brotherhood
apparently want to find a way out of the successive pitfalls and scandals
hitting their organization in the past period.
Among the junior members who want to
establish a new front is Ashraf Abdel Ghaffar who complained previously about financial
corruption among Muslim Brotherhood leaders based in Turkey and the UK.
Abdel Ghaffar accused these leaders
of stealing the donations that come to the organization.
He called on Brotherhood junior
members to stay away from senior leaders of the organization and opt for the
ideology of Hassan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood.
"You cannot choose from among
the corrupt," Abdel Ghaffar wrote on Facebook.
Corrupt clique
Abdel Ghaffar was apparently referring
to incumbent Muslim Brotherhood leaders.
Muneer and Hussein have already
polarized the organization, having been fiddling over positions inside it.
This was why Abdel Ghaffar lashed
out at both of them and lamented the lack of functional institutions within the
Brotherhood.
He also complained about the failure
of both leaders to abide by the regulations of the organization, including those
of its Consultative Office.
This comes as some Junior
Brotherhood members say they want to construct a new organization, depending on
the pits that have been left out of the original organization, both inside
Egypt and outside it.
Nonetheless, some people believe
that attempts to revive the Muslim Brotherhood or blow new life into it are
doomed to fail.
The same people look at ongoing struggles
for leadership inside the organization and laugh, given the fact that the
Muslim Brotherhood might have already reached the point of no return.