Leaders of the International Brotherhood Organization are putting pressure on the committee investigating their activity to issue a report in favor of the organization.
They also accused Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates of pressuring London to cease the activities of the group.
Ibrahim Mounir, a leading figure residing in the United Kingdom, is meeting early next week with Sir John Jenkins, the British ambassador to Saudi Arabia who was assigned by the British prime minister to investigate the activities and ideas of the group.
The committee will submit its report to the prime minister in July for him to decide if the group’s activities would be stopped in the United Kingdom.
Mounir said in a press statement on Tuesday that British Prime Minister David Cameron is exposed to pressure from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt, countries that rejected the political role of Islamists after the Arab Spring.
Mohamed Sudan, member of the Freedom and Justice party’s foreign relations committee, said the investigating committee relies on reports from legal institutions.
“I am not worried,” he said, adding that the prime minister did not yet reply to a request by group leaders in Britain to explain its ideology.
He said the history of the group and studies conducted by many scholars around the world prove that it does not advocate violence and that it is a moderate group that resolves its differences with despotic authorities by peaceful means and dialogue.
Sudan said the British government has not changed its position towards the group yet.
“The work of the committee might trigger some sort of dispute between the British internal and foreign ministries,” he said. “But, it will be contained in a way or another.”
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
