Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Saad El Shater Speaks Up His Opinions



Saad El Shater
Captured by: Mariam Rizk

Saad El Shater, the son of Khairat El Shater (a prominent Muslim Brotherhood figure) was interviewed to know his opinions about various topics concerning the Muslim Brotherhood and AUC. This is a segment of the interview.


0.00 AUC students are supposed to be the leaders of the future so what happens outside the campus or outside the university should reflect inside or on campus because if you need a role in the future in the community you have to focus on the leaders of the future so it’s clear.
0.25 But the university says or claims that it is a liberal university, there is a policy that says no clubs should be formed on a religious or political basis, what do you think of this policy?
I disagree with the policy, I think they need to rethink of that policy because all the other universities, there are political clubs there, they have a lot of activities there and so on so they should reconsider that policy again here.
1.04 So you think that if there would be a club here for the Muslim Brotherhood it would a political oriented one not a religious oriented one?
Yes of course if there is a party here or a club representing the Muslim Brotherhood it should be based on a political background based on the part not on a religious basis.
 1.29 What about other Muslim brotherhood sons on campus, do you know some of them, do you meet often because you have like similar backgrounds, similar background of oppressive regime, as you were saying, and then of feeling of freedom afterwards so what do you think?
Actually there are no Muslim brotherhood sons here, even there is one or two members of the party here on campus and I rarely see them, my time and their time and there is nothing binding between us to meet like we don’t have regular meetings or so, so I rarely see them but they are my friends.
So there are some members of them Muslim brotherhood that are on campus
Yea there is one or two
Only one or two?
Yea
2.25 Aren’t they thinking of forming a group or aren’t they having already a group?
Actually their low number doesn’t let them do so, they cannot form a group of two so they don’t think of forming any group or anything
2.44 Ok so wasn’t there any other people who would believe in the Muslim Brotherhood but would have no opportunity to show that in the oppressive regime and then they had it now like these two might be the shown ones?
May be but it needs to take some time to think of it or I need some time to talk to them about it. It wasn’t clear the period ago.
3.16 Didn’t your father encourage you to try and form a group here?
Actually he’s so busy I rarely see him so he’s not interested in that detail of forming a group in the American University in Cairo but maybe there are some people who are responsible for universities in Egypt in the Muslim Brotherhood who are responsible for that part may be they are thinking of but none of them talked to me may be they think of it and they didn’t take an action towards it they only thought about it.
3.57 But there are Muslim Brotherhood basis in every university as you were saying that they got their popularity may be from the youth, wasn’t there any thoughts or didn’t they try to implement it?
Again there are no members here so they cannot build a base upon them so there are two members or one I don’t know the other who maybe graduated the last semester or something so they may be need but they don’t have the tools to start.
4.46 Do don’t you think there are other groups maybe clubs who would have the Muslim Brotherhood principals and mentality and they’re working on this basis but they are not saying we’re Muslim Brotherhood?
They say that help club is one of them but I actually I know most of its members and I partially know their vision and their activities and so on but I can’t clearly say that they are far away from being intoconnected or share a vision with the Muslim Brotherhood because Muslim Brotherhood is broader than this club or this club’s vision.

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