Egypt court dissolves Muslim Brotherhood political party
Pamela Geller / Atlas ShrugsThe Egyptian government is cracking down hard against the sharia oppressors, taking the hard steps that the free world needs to take, if the appeasers and accommodationists were not in power.
“Egypt court dissolves Muslim Brotherhood party,” Associated Press, August 9. 2014:
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s highest administrative court dissolved Saturday the political party of the banned Muslim Brotherhood and ordered its assets liquidated, in the latest move against the 86-year old Islamist group.
The decision against the Freedom and Justice Party comes ahead of parliamentary elections expected this year and prevents the group from trying to rejoin politics a year after leading member, President Mohammed Morsi, was overthrown by the military.
The party was founded in 2011 by the Brotherhood, Egypt’s historic Islamist movement created in 1928, after President Hosni Mubarak was deposed in a popular uprising and it went on to dominate subsequent legislative elections.
The Middle East News Agency said the decision by the Supreme Administrative Court is final and can’t be appealed.
The party’s website quoted an unnamed senior member of the party as saying the ruling was “vindictive” because it had refused to endorse the post-Morsi political order. The official criticized that the court decision could not be appealed.
The court, headed by Judge Fareed Tanaghu, said the party’s affiliation with a supra-national group — the Muslim...