Muslim Brotherhood candidate, Mohamed Morsi won the presidential elections in Egypt, according to results announced this afternoon by the Electoral Commission. Morsi won 13 million votes, compared to 12 million recorded by his rival, Ahmad Shafiq, former prime-minister during Hosni Mubarak’s reign. Thousands of Egyptians took to Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo – the symbol of the Egypt where the people defeated Mubarak regime – to express joy at the victory.
Muslim Brotherhood (The Society of the Muslim Brothers) is an Islamist movement, the oldest Muslim political organization founded in 1928 in Egypt by Hassan al-Banna, an Islamic scholar and schoolteacher, as a social, spiritual and political party. The organization fought initially against the British Empire that was occupying Egypt. The Islamic organization made statements, a number of occasions, calling to resume the fight against Israel, so the coming to power of this organization will cause concern in the Western world.
Movement motto is: ” Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. The Qur’an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.” The movement has expanded over the years, throughout the Arab world. It is well regarded among Muslims because it’s involved in charity activities. In 1954, after an assassination attempt against Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser which was attributed to the Muslim Brotherhood, the organization was banned in Egypt. Thus, movement went underground, but after the fall of the Mubarak regime, it came back with its own candidates for elections.
Egypt is led by the army now, in power after overthrowing the old regime in February 2011. Population is challenging the massive military presence, but the Army stated that it will hand over the power when there is a new parliament in place, under a new constitution. The former parliament, dominated by Islamists, was dissolved recently by a decision of the Constitutional Court, which argued that election law had judicial errors.
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