Egypt's Jama'a Islamiya (Islamic Group) dissenter Ahmed Sobh said Friday the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) terrorist group's modus operandi is to spur anti-state violence while remaining offstage, Al Bawaba News reported. While imprisoned together, MB leaders used to incite him and other inmates to object to prison regulations without taking any actions themselves, Sobh added. "The MB always incites and escalates violence but never confronts the consequences," Sobh cited Wagdy Ghoneim, an MB senior religious leader as saying. The Islamist dissenter said he expected the number of MB's allies to wane over time, indicating that the majority of the Jama'a Islamiya low and medium ranking members aspired to abandon extremist ideologies and get closer to the state. "The group's heavyweights, however, exert strenuous efforts to make them back down," he said. Jama'a Islamiya, a basic element of the pro-MB National Alliance to Support Legitimacy (NASL), is currently confronting large-scale defections with Yasser Faraweila, founder of the Jama'a Islamiya Rebellion Movement stressing on his desire to adopt a more peaceful track with the incumbent regime. Badry Makhlouf, a Jama'a Islamiya senior figure, announced April 9 that he "has withdrawn from NACL", calling on other members to follow in his footsteps. The most influential Islamist group in the country held April 10 a General Assembly in Cairo to decide on its membership in the (NASL), according to Jama'a Islamiya Liberals movement coordinator Rabei Ali Shalabi. Jama'a Islamiya, once the most perilous terrorist group in Egypt, with a string of assassinations against security personnel, thinkers, tourists and facilities denounced violent ideologies at the turn of the Millennium and entered the political scene following the 2011 uprising with the formation of their Construction and Development Party.
