"The recent government designation of the Muslim Brotherhood as a 'terrorist' organisation will only force the group to go back underground to survive as it used to be throughout its history. It will further cast the Brotherhood in the eyes of society as an oppressed group that suffered a great deal of injustice. Egypt's incumbent rulers are the biggest losers as they have imprudently boosted the Brotherhood rather than weakening its stature in the eyes of many Egyptians; firstly by committing the most heinous massacre in Egypt's modern history after breaking up the group's sit-ins in August; and secondly by forcing it to work clandestinely. As the political saga goes on, the Egyptians continue paying the price of taking to the streets on June 30 to call for early presidential elections to end up with an autocratic military rule with a civilian veneer." Egyptian writer Bilal Fadl, Al-Shorouk daily, December 28, 2013.
