CAIRO: Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood announced on Tuesday that it rejects calls for a civil disobedience campaign being launched by a number of revolutionary youth movements, political parties and trade unions. Scheduled to begin on February 11, which marks the anniversary of former president Hosni Mubarak's ouster, the campaign is gaining steam across social and political lines. Mahmoud Hussein, Secretary General of the Muslim Brotherhood, stated that the call for civil disobedience on February 11 is a very “destructive” call and “can harm the interests of Egypt and its future.” He continued: “This call means a general strike in the sense to disrupt the railway, transportation, and delay in the work of factories, companies, universities, schools, and refraining from paying money owed to the government (taxes, electricity, water and gas bills), and all this would exacerbate the bad economic, social and services situation leading to the dismantling of the state institutions.” He added in the statement that the Brotherhood “rejects such calls,” and called on Egyptians “to double their efforts to build the state, and not demolish it.” The Islamic group also called for upholding “reason, wisdom and logic to maintain the public interest and refrain from personal and partisan interests” and advised Egyptians to ignore these “destructive calls for civil disobedience.” BM ShortURL: http://goo.gl/izXlO Tags: featured, MB, Strike Section: Egypt, Latest News
