The Muslim Brotherhood's Supreme Guide Mohamed Badie has offered an explanation for the fall of former President Hosni Mubarak, suggesting that Egypt's tyranical leader was the victim of God's wrath because his regime mercilessly persucuted the group's members for so long.
“Every time members of the Muslim Brotherhood were imprisoned and tortured, God punished those who did it,” said Badie.
Badie claimed in his weekly address to the group's members that after the infamous arrests of Brotherhood members in 1954, during former President Gamal Abdel Nasser's reign, Egypt was defeated in the 1956 war against Britain, France and Israel. After the group's persecution in 1965, Badie said, Egypt lost the 1967 war against Israel.
“And now Mubarak and his regime has fallen, after he kept persecuting us,” he said.
“Victory is coming and we will get Jerusalem and the Golan back, now that the nation has awakened,” he said, referring to the Palestinian and Syrian territories currently occupied by Israel.
Translated from the Arabic Edition
