Egypt-Muslim Brotherhood - The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt (MB), on Thursday accused the US of supporting specific political parties and civil organizations in the country, 'in an attempt to buy their loyalties'. In a statement here, MB considered the US moves as a direct interference in Egypt's internal affairs and an attempt to ruin ensure that such groups would be aligned to US policies. The MB statement called on all 'honorable and respected' people to avoid taking illegal money from Western countries.

It also called on all monitoring organizations, the Egyptian Government and Egypt’s interim ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) to investigate the matter and publish the names of entities that continue to receive direct and indirect funding from the West.

Thursday's statement by the MB acknowledged that Egypt’s 25 January Revolution was facing major obstacles and challenges.

It clarified that the Brotherhood believed that people had the right to write their own constitution, in a clear rejection of the SCAF-supported 'Above Constitution Principles', and denouncement of the adjournment of Legislative elections for two months to November, as requested by most Liberal and Youth organizations.

The statement did stress though, that Friday's planned demonstrations were aimed at unifying all political powers in the country, and giving Egypt’s interim Military rulers and Government a chance to hold fair trials of all corrupted figures of the former regime including ousted President Hosni Mubarak.

The MB further asked all Egyptians to show respect for the Army which embraced the January revolution from its early days, and to avoid marches similar to the one that targetted the Defence Ministry headquarters in Abbassya this past weekend.

The Brotherhood announced it would not stage sit-ins and called on all demonstrators, currently occupying the iconic Tahrir Square, to end their sit-in so as to allow safety and stability to return to Egyptian streets, and to give concerned authorities time to deliver on their promises of swift reform.

Pana 29/07/2011