tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22261571.post3923647130513830313..comments2024-03-20T01:06:12.181-04:00Comments on MEI Editor's Blog: Banning the Brotherhood, AgainUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22261571.post-2220171692387328592013-09-26T20:11:35.572-04:002013-09-26T20:11:35.572-04:00From the first time it was banned? dissolved? the...From the first time it was banned? dissolved? the Gama'a was never again legalized. Members of the non-existent group formed and registered the FJP during the heady days when everyone was doing so. <br /><br />After being hammered by the opposition for brazenly operating an illegal organization subject to no oversight body, [the mother organization, the Gama'a] and after they put in place a new NGO law, they quickly and quietly registered an NGO classified like others as a Gami'a. The filing indicated a holding of only a few thousand dollars or a couple of million dollars. <br /><br />They threw this news out as a bombshell at some point when people were attacking them for having a big illegal organization in the era of "the rule of law." <br /><br />Since the Gama'a doesn't exist legally, it's funds are held in the names of individuals, businesses, and various institutions they are related to, all of this running into the billions. It is THIS money the government is going after.<br /><br />The fate of the FJP, I believe, is more related to the new laws that will restrict religiously based politically party...how that would be worded. The Salafi parties would face the same fate.<br /><br />If nothing else, the FJP would likely have to separate itself from any ties to the Gami'a as well as from the non-existent Gama'a. <br /><br />So, did they dissolve the already dissolved Gama'a or the fairly new NGO, the Gami'a or both? And yes, what about the FJP. Confused? Me, too!<br /><br />I suspect that most of the MB assets that are in cash or gold are hidden away in Qatar just as Mubarak's is thought to be in the UAE. But there is whole lot of property.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com