In his latest 15-minute audio message on Islamist forums, Al-Qaeda prominent leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has accused United States of America’s involvement in Egypt’s Mohamed Morsi ouster as well as empowering military, secularists and non-Muslims.
Zawahiri, who himself belongs to Egypt, said in his first public comment after military coup on the July 3 that Crusaders and secularists and the Americanised army have converged with Gulf money and American plotting to throw out Mohamed Morsi’s from the government.
Zawahiri also accused Egypt’s Coptic Christian minority of supporting the Islamist president’s ouster to attain “a Coptic state stripped from Egypt’s south.”
Zawahiri put allegations on Vice President Mohamed ElBaradei, the Nobel Laureate and former UN nuclear watchdog chief, who was an opposition leader during Morsi’s single year in office.
ElBaradei is the “envoy of American providence,” Zawahiri said, labelling the former International Atomic Energy Agency chief as “the destroyer of Iraq.”
Zawahiri criticised Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood movement for going soft on applying strict Islamic law, MSN Arabia said.
Morsi’s “Muslim Brotherhood government strove to please America and the secularists as much as it could, but they were not satisfied with it,” said Zawahiri from an unknown location.
“They did not trust it (Morsi’s government) because they did not forget the Brotherhood’s slogan: ‘Jihad is our war, and death in the path of God is our highest aspiration’,” he said.
“The Brotherhood abandoned that slogan, substituting it with the slogan ‘Islam is the solution,’ but the Crusaders and secularists did not forget,” he said.
“What happened is the biggest proof of the failure of democratic means to achieve an Islamic government,” he said of the coup.
However, the Al-Qaeda leader called them to be united for making Islamic law rule.
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