Audio leak reveals differences, divisions ravaging banned MB

A recent audio leak for a senior leader in the banned Muslim Brotherhood has revealed details of the differences and divisions tearing the group apart.

“Over the period 1954-1974, we were afflicted by a new group that entered the Muslim Brotherhood, though they were no Brothers. They were a secret organisation, and a gang, such as Mahmoud Ezzat and the like,” Ahmed Mattar, an MB senior leader, said in the spill, carried by the website of Alarabiya news channel on Wednesday.

Matter had fled to the Balkans, and is affiliated to what is known as the ‘London Front” of the group led by Ibrahim Munir.

“They began to promote a group of people with limited capabilities, such as Mahmoud Hussein, Mahmoud Ghuzlan, Mahmoud Abdel Rahim, Mahmoud Ibrahim and Mahmoud Al-Ibiari, and whoever had the name of Mahmoud. They excluded others like Essam al-Erian, Abdelmonem Abul-Fotouh, Helmy al-Jazzar, and Mohamad al-Beltagi.”

Matter added that members of the group that joined the Brothers over the period 1954-1974, were born over the time from 1935 to 1949, “and they infiltrated into the MB under (late president) Nasser who banned the Brothers and their activities and tyrannised them.

“Therefor, a group of people joined the organisation at the time, being endorsed by the leadership which demanded they strictly observe the basic three Nos of the MB: No thinking, no creativity, no ambition. They were members of the secret organisation.”

Matter prayed the MB would get rid of them, saying that Mahmoud Ezzat is leading the organisation and the MB to “hell”.
According to Matter, the MB group came to be ruled by a “gang”, and none of the efficient leaders was included in late president Mohamed Morsi’s team: Only less qualified and experienced ones were selected.
When Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Egypt then, he asked about some well-known MB leaders, and wondered why they were not included in the ruling team, neither was their help sought.
The latest spill is one of many that have recently been circulated in a war of leaks since the eruption of a crisis between the ‘London Front’ and the ‘Istanbul Front’.