By Abdel Rahman Youssef
ALEXANDRIA: Hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood members formed human chains across the Corniche Monday in support of the Syrian revolution.
About 4,000 answered the call made by the Brotherhood, said Ibrahim El-Sayed, member of the group’s administrative office in Alexandria and the protest’s coordinator.
“This is to support our brothers in Syria in their ordeal and to share with them their pain. Everything we can give will be given,” El-Sayed told Daily News Egypt.
“Internal affairs have been dominating [the group’s] activities lately and it has to be directed to international affairs. With the rising level of killing by Bashar [Al-Assad]’s regime, we have to support our brothers in Syria,” El-Sayed added.
El-Sayed said that a bank account was set for donations via the rescue committee at the Doctors’ Syndicate. Members of the group raised the account number on the placards they held across the Corniche, along with others reading “Save your brothers in Syria.”
Protesters demanded cutting relations with the Syrian regime and wanted the parliament to urge the government to take swift actions to stop the bloodshed.
They also wanted the Arab League to send joint Arab troops to Syria.
Members of the coordinating committee of the Syrian revolution participated in the protest. Committee’s spokesman Ahmed Abdel Karim Baloush told DNE that they came to support the Free Syrian Army and the revolutionaries inside Syria.
Baloush urged the Egyptian government and the ruling military council to “acknowledge the Syrian National Council as a legitimate representative of the Syrian people and to give them the Syrian Embassy in Egypt.”
He called on all “free Egyptians” to participate in a protest in front of Bibliotheca Alexandrina on Thursday to mark the first anniversary of the “Syrian Revolution of Dignity.”
