So, when I wrote this post a week ago, I was mocking all of the opposition parties, especially the liberal ones and the Muslim Brotherhood.  But right away, the new “general guide” of MB had to go and prove how well founded my satire was!  Just read what Muhammad Badee’ (the new “general guide”) had to say yesterday about the direction of MB:

إننا نؤمن بالتدرج في الإصلاح، وأن ذلك لا يتم إلا بأسلوب سلمي ونضال دستوري قائم على الإقناع والحوار وعدم الإكراه؛ ولذلك نرفض العنف وندينه بكل أشكاله؛ سواءٌ من جانب الحكومات أو من جانب الأفراد، أو الجماعات اأو المؤسسات.

[We believe in gradual reform, and that will not be accomplished except through peaceful methods, and constitutional struggle, based on persuasion and dialogue and non-coercion. And therefore, we reject violence and we condemn it in all of its forms, whether from governments or individuals or groups or organizations.]

Now I really did not make this up, but it is good to show how useless and reformist MB is, at least on a leadership level. But given their belief in “gradual reform” and “constitutional struggle (نضال دستوري)” they really should change their name to: The Party of Moderate Progress within the Limits of the Law.