An Al-Qaeda front group based in Iraq and Syria called for Egyptians to take up arms against their country’s military, in an audio message posted on the Internet on Saturday.
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) also dismissed the Muslim Brotherhood, the party of ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi, as “evil” for supporting democracy and seeking to win power through elections.
Following massive popular protests against the Islamist Morsi, the army removed him in a July 3 coup and imprisoned him.
Adnani also derided the Muslim Brotherhood as a “secular party in disguise as Islamists.”
The recording could not be independently verified.
ISIS has focused its activities on Iraq but, since peaceful protests against President Bashar al-Assad in early-2011 turned violent, also in neighbouring Syria.
In Iraq, it is widely blamed for a surge in violence in recent months that has left more than 3,800 people dead. And in Syria, it is seen as one of the most potent rebel groups fighting Assad’s regime.
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