The Muslim Brotherhood Denies Report It Called for Writer Prosecution
IkhwanWeb - Egypt
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
The Lebanese Menassat news agency has mysteriously translated the word
"Jama’a Islamiya" or "The Islamic Group" into the Muslim Brotherhood in a news
story about a call by Jama’a Islamiya to prosecute feminist writer Nawal
Saadawi on charges of blasphemy and contempt for religion.
The error in translation itself was a fatal mistake, since it confuses
two completely ideologically different organizations and schools of thought,
but it also feeds into false allegations by opponents of the Muslim Brotherhood
that it adopts a hard-line stance against freedoms of thought and expression.
Prosecuting writers contradicts with the Muslim Brotherhood ideology
which has always been staunch supporter of freedom of thought and expression
"We promote freedom of thought," said MB Secretary General Mahmoud Ezzat,
"and never in the history of the Muslim Brotherhood we prosecuted or called for
the prosecution of writers."
"But is important that writers and thinkers use their talents in a way
that respects the creeds and beliefs of others; in another word seek to
reconcile between principles of freedom and the respect to the rights of
others, so that one’s opinion will not be a violation of the other’s freedom of
belief," he told Ikhwanweb.
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