Arab West Report Egyptian press summaries and media research for dialogue

"We have never come out of the Muslim Brotherhood's womb. 'Abd al-Mun'im Abū al-Futūh, Abū al-'Ilā Mādī and 'Isām al-'Iryān were originally members of the Jamā'ah Islāmīyah," said Hāshim in an interview to al-Ahrār newspaper.

He said he was against the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadāt and People's Assembly Speaker Rif'at al-Mahjūb and the attempts on the lives of 'Abd al-Halīm Mūsá and Zakī Badr (both were interior ministers).

He added that the Israeli aggression on the borders was the peak of provocation and a test of the reaction of a post-revolution Egypt towards the enemy.

Hāshim noted that secularists in Egypt are much less fierce than those in Turkey, adding the Islamist movements have to find a meeting point with them.