The Special Organization of the 'Muslim Brotherhood'.. The New Hashish Users

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One morning in Cairo, an elderly man entered the building of a newspaper and asked the journalist specializing in Islamic groups for the address of Judge Ahmed Khazindar. The journalist was very surprised by the request and was provoked to learn more details.

Here, the mysteries of this strange request began to unfold. The man was Adel Kamal, an employee at a financial institution, and he was the one who provided Abdul Rahman Al-Sindi, the founder of the special organization of the Muslim Brotherhood, with the address of Judge Ahmed Khazindar on Riad Pasha Street in Helwan. The man had obtained it during a financial transaction between Khazindar and that institution, to participate in a crime that was not the first of this organization but was the first direct clash between it and the Egyptian state during the monarchy!

I do not know if the man's regret was sufficient at this late age, and if his repentance from this sinful act before meeting the Lord of the Worlds and paying the blood money to Khazindar's children was enough, but what is more important here is to understand the nature of this organization that Al-Sindi established based on a commission from Hassan Al-Banna. The organization was not just an armed group; it was more like a complex apparatus where different units met to integrate and perform the required role.

There was an informational aspect based on sleeper cells within state institutions, aimed at gathering information about the targets to be eliminated. Another aspect was based on summer camps, trips, and scouting teams, aimed at physically and bodily preparing the organization's members. A third aspect was based on armament, tasked with bringing in weapons and ammunition, which, ironically, came from British occupation camps, which the group claimed it had established this organization to resist. A fourth aspect was focused on manufacturing explosives and hand grenades, one of which was indeed used in the Khazindar incident!

The intriguing aspect of the establishment of the special organization was the extreme secrecy surrounding it. What is the reason for such a level of secrecy in creating a resistance organization against the occupation? Especially since resisting the occupation was a declared goal of all political parties and forces in Egypt. However, investing in the creation of a secret organization with jihadist concepts means that the group is working to serve an independent project of its own, not linked to the declared national goals of Egypt.

The establishment of the special organization was an announcement of the transition from the stages of initiation and expansion to the stage of empowerment and reaching power. It is no secret to anyone the political circumstances that Egypt was going through at that time, coinciding with the transfer of power from King Fouad to his young son, King Farouk. The regional circumstances were also evident, as the region was preparing for the declaration of the establishment of the State of Israel, not to mention the international circumstances, as the international stage was gearing up for the start of World War II.

The group then moved to the stage of masks, where there was a duality of positions, opinions, and societal discourse. It was no longer the virtuous group aiming to spread Islamic morals. These masks usually cause societal controversy that continues to this day. Those who defend the group here defend the advocacy group, while those who oppose speak of a ruthless and merciless killing machine.

This controversy even moved inside the group itself. In the case of Al-Khazindar, for example, it was found that the group was not wronged in the judicial ruling, and all the evidence was real and not fabricated, including the confessions of the accused from the Brotherhood. This led to a blame game between Banna and Al-Sandi regarding responsibility for this act, all accusations aimed at saving face and manipulating and hiding the truths. If Banna was truly angry, he could have dismissed Al-Sandi and dismantled the organization with a single word, but he did not do so because what happened served his project and reinforced his ideas, even if he denied it and claimed otherwise.

This is evidenced by the repetition of the same crime in the same manner with Mahmoud Fahmy Al-Nuqrashi, the Prime Minister of Egypt, whom the special organization decided to assassinate as punishment for his decision to dissolve the group. However, Banna's calculations this time were wrong, as he thought that the assassination of the Prime Minister would pass like any other transient incident. He hastened to announce his condemnation of the incident and published his famous phrase, 'They are not brothers, and they are not Muslims.' However, this condemnation was not enough to save him from punishment, in the same way he got rid of his opponents and adversaries!

The discussion about the special organization of the Brotherhood should not end, a group of new hashish users, which appears contrary to what it conceals, whether it is Hassan al-Sabbah or Hassan al-Banna, a group that has made a profession of killing under the pretext of liberating Egypt from British occupation, only to find it killing Egyptians, spreading among them fear, terror, suspicion, and discord, and the strangest thing is that it has not targeted a single British soldier throughout its history!