'We are not going to remain neutral!'

"...Ahmed el-Zend, who was re-elected president of the association a few months ago, said in a televised address that if the group’s members had known Islamists would win most of the seats in Parliament after elections that ended in January, they would not have supervised the voting, and he suggested that they might refuse to oversee the runoff.“We used to stand at the edge of the judiciary and not go near politics,” he said. “But now Egypt is falling. We won’t leave matters for those who can’t manage them, with the excuse that we’re not people of politics. No, we are people of politics.”
Judge Zend accused the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt’s mainstream Islamist group, of seeking “to take the country apart and put it back together the way you want it” and of carrying out “a systematic plan meticulously designed to destroy this country: ‘It is either us, or no Egypt.’ ”..."