CAIRO: A young Muslim Brotherhood group recently launched a “morality campaign at Egyptian universities that is reportedly attracting more crowds than their vocal demonstrations ever have.
Titled “Raqi Bi Akhlaqi (exalted by my manners), the five-week campaign was launched in 13 universities, including Al-Azhar.
In 2006, members of the same student group were widely criticized when they demonstrated on the Al-Azhar campus wearing black uniforms and performing a martial arts demonstration in what became known then as “the kung-fu militia.
A number of students were later expelled for participating in the demonstration.
The recent campaign’s manifesto forfeits the show of strength, and instead calls on students to focus on good behavior and stop “blindly imitating the West in both appearance and speech.
They also implored their fellow students to use Arabic in their conversations and to stop inserting English words.
“We love and cherish our Arab and Islamic identity and refuse any behavior imported from the West, the manifesto declared.
The students created a Facebook group for their campaign, which has already drawn large numbers of participants and visitors.
Their online group said that earlier this week, the campaign had attracted more than 5,000 students at the University of Assiut alone.
