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In an Al-Sharq TV interview on November 30, 2014, Al-Gama'a Al-Islamiyya Leader Refai Taha said: "It is time we stopped using the word 'peaceful'." "If bearing arms is our only way to confront Al-Sisi, then so be it," Taha told the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood TV channel, which broadcasts from Turkey. Taha reached Turkey several months ago after having been deported from Sudan.
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Refai Taha: Let me commend the National Alliance in Support of Legitimacy, and its steadfastness and its peaceful attempts to bring down this coup. However, let me say to this alliance: Although your sacrifices for this country were, indeed, honorable, you are fighting a cowardly and cruel enemy, which pursues its own interests, so it is time we stopped using the word "peaceful."
By taking this peaceful path, you have helped the regime stabilize itself. It is time for us to declare that all options are open in the confrontation with this criminal regime, which does not care how many it has killed, wounded, or tortured, how many Muslim sanctities is has violated, or how many women have had their honor violated by it. It is time for us to say that all the options of the revolution are open, with no limits.
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It is time for the coup leaders to understand that the Egyptian people is capable of making more sacrifices. If they insist on their sinfulness, their tyranny, and their injustice, Egypt will find itself in a situation the consequences of which are known only to Allah. Responsibility for this dire future of our country will lie with the coup ringleaders and not with the Egyptian people.
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We say that a great future requires even greater sacrifices. The extent of our sacrifices for the sake of our religion, our country, our freedom, our honor, and our livelihood will determine the extent of freedom enjoyed by our future generations. But if we continue to take too many things into consideration, in a way that serves only to further stabilize the rule of the coup ringleaders…
Well, the people who support this strategy should reconsider their position, or else the Egyptians will sweep them aside, and will continue their revolution against this coup to the end.
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Al-Sisi thwarted the first free and fair elections, which the whole world recognized as such. He grabbed the man who was elected and treacherously threw him in prison. Then he, or the courts that he had established, released Hosni Mubarak, who humiliated the Egyptian people for 30 years…
Interviewer: Everybody knows that, but…
Refai Taha: This is a very peculiar paradox.
Interviewer: Nobody disputes that we must topple this regime The only question is: Should we bear arms or not?
Refai Taha: That is not the question. If bearing arms is our only way to confront Al-Sisi, then so be it. He was the one who took up arms and came in a tank. He uprooted and burned the Egyptian people throughout the country. Are we waiting for him to run over us with his tanks every now and again? Are we waiting for Al-Sis's tanks to run over the entire people, while we face this regime with our bare chests? Absolutely not. If he bears arms, we will bear arms. He should stop his state-sponsored terrorism first.
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