Should Egypt shut the door on reconciliation with young Muslim Brothers?

Cairo - Makram Mohammed Ahmed, former head of the Egyptian journalists syndicate, said that we should not shut the door on any future reconciliation with the youth of the Muslim Brotherhood who sincerely renounce extremism and violence, and that the state should definitely welcome them back to the ranks of good citizens, Makram said yesterday in a phone call with "Infraad" program aired on the "al-‘Asma" TV channel.  

Makram added that Muslim Brotherhood leaders are typically narrow-minded and adamantly opposed to any reconciliation with the state, pointing out that they are unwilling to submit to the new rules or live with the status quo.  “As for young Muslim Brothers who are willing to “walk the extra mile” to end this, we should never dismiss the idea of reconciliation with them,” he stressed. 

He asserted that there is a kind of an “organic relationship” between Muslim Brotherhood and what is happening right now in restive Sinai, ascribing it to the large amounts of funding the group receives from Qatar and Turkey.