The banned opposition party said it was willing to hold talks with anyone hoping to improve Egyptian society, as long as President Hosni Mubarak stepped down.
Egypt's banned opposition Muslim Brotherhood has expressed readiness to hold talks on a 'transition arrangement' in the violence-wracked nation on condition that embattled President Hosni Mubarak steps down, the organisation's supreme leader has said.
"We have a single point demand, that unjust, tyrant and corrupt Mubarak has to quit," Mohammed Badie, the chief spiritual guide of the Egyptian organisation, told Al Jazeera as tens of thousands of people held a biggest ever rally termed 'day of departure' in Cairo's historic Tahrir Square,
demanding ouster of the beleaguered Egyptian President.
Ten days into the turmoil in Cairo appears to have emboldened the Muslim Brotherhood leadership as they surface after decades of being underground.
The Muslim Brotherhood spiritual chief made an unannounced appearance on Al Jazeera saying "we stand with all political forces supporting dialogue with whoever wants to implement reforms in Egypt, but only after the exit of
Mubarak."
Banned for decades and treated as pariah, the Muslim Brotherhood has suddenly find itself shot into prominence and within sight of its long cherished dreams of attaining power in moderate secular country like Egypt.
The wave of protests have come as boon to the organisation as it is now being recognised and is playing an open role in the politics in Egypt.
A major boost for the organisation came last night with the new vice president, Omar Suleiman, inviting it for negotiations over Egypt's future and transition to democracy.
The step amounted to a stunning concession to a group dubbed as 'bloody radical' and which the present regime considered its worst enemy.
Brothers — recognised in Egypt by sporting close cropped beards — are dominating the anti-government protest often praying in the middle of street battles.
The Brotherhood was founded in 1920 and outlawed in 1954 and has recently renounced violence and its strain of Islam appears far short of radicalism of Afghan Taliban.
Though some of the prominent al Qaeda leaders and commanders have Brotherhood roots, the Jihadist militant groups have been critical of the organisation for participating in elections.
The al Qaeda number two, Ayman al-Zawahiri, an Egyptian by birth, is considered one of the leading figures of Muslim Brotherhood.
But now, the new leaders of the organisation appear to be keen to distance themselves from radical Jihadists, and organisation's supreme guide in his interview said his outfit was ready to join a broader dialogue in Egypt along with other opposition parties.
His sole demand was that Mubarak should quit.
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