Organization 65 is a model: Prisons are a gathering of Brotherhood for revenge
Tuesday 09/April/2019 - 12:53 PM
Doaa Imam
The long stay of the Brotherhood's youth in prisons can be seen against the
background of their involvement in terrorist operations, as a gathering of
intellectuals, whether those belonging or part of the organization’s leaders.
Renewed initiatives of repentance that emerge from the youth of the group claim
to have produced intellectual reviews, while forgetting that these meetings
formed a pre-nucleus for the formation of terrorist organizations that planned
to assassinate the late President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
Organization 65 is a model
In one of the cells of the military prison, three men belonging to the group met after being arrested following their involvement in the Manshiyya incident (the assassination attempt of the late President Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1954, carried out by members of the Brotherhood). While everyone was discussing the fate of the group after the decision to dissolve it in the same year, Muhammad Abdul Fattah Rizk, one of the Brotherhood's members in his fourth decade, turned to Abdel Fattah Ismail, who did not complete his thirtieth year.
The desire for revenge was dominated by the three who rejected the idea of "organization without organization". They saw the impossibility of continuing the Brotherhood without the private organization (a secret organization established by Hassan al-Banna in 1940 and chose a group to train on military tasks) and the second was the assassination of the President and other personalities, in addition to the implementation of operations on vital installations, including the building of radio and television.
As soon as they left the prison, Rizk, Isma'il and Abdel-Muttal met with another group of the Brotherhood's most prominent members, most notably Ali Ashmawi (the last leader of the secret organization). The journey of seeking legitimacy for the organization began with the supervision of a former leader of the nascent organization. They contacted Hasan al-Hudaibi (the group's second leader from 1950/1973) but rejected the idea of a special reorganization and Salah Shadi (head of the unit, which included police officers from the group).
According to Ashmawi, in his memoirs, "The Secret History of the Muslim Brotherhood" issued in 2006, the rejection was not because of the renunciation of violence, but because of personal love. What is important is hearing, obedience and authorization, not the extent to which the decision is based on sharia.
Al-Hudaybi and Shadi have warned the Brotherhood against the new organization, which has been busy collecting the contributions as much as possible and making the assassination of Abdel Nasser a motive for sacrificing money in order to get rid of it. Ashmawi says the guide demanded to report the organization and the delivery of its members to the police, but the group questioned his testimony later, and said that the contents of his memoirs is a slander on the Brotherhood, and that the group never thought of the assassination of Nasser.
