The announcement was made on Wednesday is a huge escalation of the fight between the government and the Brotherhood. An Egyptian court had banned the group in September.
Hossam Eissa, the minister of higher education, read out the cabinet statement after a long meeting, saying “The cabinet has declared the Muslim Brotherhood group and its organisation as a terrorist organisation.”
The decision is claimed to be in response to Tuesday’s deadly suicide bombing which targeted a police headquarter in a Nile Delta city which killed 16 people and wounded more than 100. The Brotherhood has denied being responsible for the Mansoura attack, for which an al-Qaida inspired group has claimed responsibility.
“Egypt was horrified from north to south by the hideous crime committed by the Muslim Brotherhood group,” Eissa said. “This was in context of dangerous escalation to violence against Egypt and Egyptians [and] a clear declaration by the Muslim Brotherhood group that it still knows nothing but violence.”
“It’s not possible for Egypt the state nor Egypt the people to submit to the Muslim Brotherhood terrorism,” he added.
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