The Muslim Brotherhood has launched a terror campaign against Egypt, a major mediator in the Gaza crisis and a leading African member of the BRICS. According to a statement by the Egyptian Interior Ministry, released on July 20, there was an attack by the armed wing of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt called the Hasm Movement (Ḥarakat Sāwa’d Miṣr, or the Arms of Egypt Movement). According to the official communiqué, two men opened fire “at random” on security forces; surrounding civilians and Egyptian security forces were able to kill two of the terrorists, as a bystander was also killed.
According to recent media reports, five leaders of the Hasm terrorists were seeking to revive the terror group, which has not carried out an attack since 2021. All five had already been sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia for a series of attacks committed after the 2013 fall of Islamist President Mohamed Morsi. These terrorists had received military training and entered Egypt from an unnamed neighboring country, and they reportedly sought to carry out attacks targeting security and economic facilities.
The July 20 attack was planned by the five leaders. The movement released a video online which showed its members training in a desert area of a neighboring country.
While it is known that a faction of the Muslim Brotherhood had refuge in Türkiye, all the orders come from the Brotherhood’s London headquarters, where it has not been designated a terrorist organization, as it has been in Egypt and other countries. The leadership enjoys perfect safety under His Majesty’s protection in Britain.
In 2017 following several bloody attacks by the Hasm movement, the Egyptian government submitted a report to British authorities documenting the Muslim Brotherhood’s links to terrorism, including fake bank accounts and front companies used to launder funds to groups based in Egypt, Türkiye, and other countries. Despite this evidence, Britain still has not designated the group as a terrorist organization.
Earlier in July, there was a massive fire at the Ramses Telecom exchange building, one of four such fires in the Cairo area. The obviously strategic building burned for 20 hours, before the fire was brought under control. While sabotage has not officially been mentioned, a judicial investigation has been ordered. At the same time, there were also fires at other important facilities in Egypt.
Speaking on a local TV program, media personality, MP Mostafa Bakry commented on these incidents, wondering: “Is all this coincidence? Why now? This is just a question, and we await the answer, as it will reveal what is happening and its purpose.” Bakry warned that a war has begun against Egypt and against President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, referring to attempts to “increase internal tension and undermine national unity.”
