Exclusive: Egypt's ambassador to Britain has said the military-led offensive on the opposition set out to be no different from the British response to the 2011 London riots, but turned bloody when the Muslim Brotherhood started firing on the security forces.
An Egyptian security force kicks a Morsi supporter near Cairo University this week Photo: AP
"There is no difference with what David
Cameron did to deal with the demonstrations here in London," he
said. "If the demonstrators don't have any weapons, the police could
have reached them and taken them into custody. Nobody would have been hurt.
But when the demonstrators have pistols and guns and the police are lined up
with guns pointing at them, the authorities have to defend themselves. That
is the difference."
Speaking in Egypt's embassy in a Mayfair townhouse, Mr Kholy compared the
one-year rule of Mr Morsi to the Islamist takeover of the Iranian
state after the 1979 revolution and said that, like Nazism, the Muslim
Brotherhood ideology sought to dominate Egyptian society.
"Morsi was elected president and held office for one year but in that
time he tried to make everything Muslim Brotherhood controlled. Egyptian
culture over 5,000 years is a mix of religions and civilisations in which
the Islamic religion is one ingredient of the Egyptian character," he
said. "The Muslim Brotherhood are like a Nazi group that demand that
everything changes and people everything to their way."
However, Mr Kholy said that the roadmap offered by the interim government for
a return to democracy remained in place and that while the Muslim
Brotherhood could be banned, its political wing, the Freedom and Justice
Party, could contest the polls.
