14 DAY TRIAL // The hacker collective turned their anger against some websites belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood, one of the oldest and largest Islamist parties in Egypt.
According to The Hacker News, four of their main sites were taken down after the hackers used servers from Germany, France, Slovakia and the US to launch denial of service attacks on the locations.
“ Anonymous has decided to destroy the Muslim Brotherhood. We shall proceed to dismantle any form of its organization from the internet. Nothing will stop us. We will show no mercy,” revealed a statement from the hackers.
Anonymous released a video in which they demonstrate their reasons for attacking the sites.
“The Muslim Brotherhood has become a threat to the revolution Egyptians had fought for, some with their lives. They seek to destroy the sovereignty of the people of Egypt as well as other nations including the United States,” state the members of Anonymous.
“The Muslim Brotherhood started as a benevolent group of people with fair and just intentions. However, as decades went by, corruption seized its mission of good and turned it into a power-hungry organization bent on taking over soverign arab states in its quest to seize power from them.”
The hacktivist collective compares them to the Church of Scientology, but they also highlight the fact that they have nothing against Muslims and their religion. The members of the organization are their only targets.
“To those listening now, this is not a threat towards the religion of Islam. The Muslim Brotherhood, as well as terrorist organizations affiliating with the religion, defiled and destroyed the very essence of what the religion preaches. Therefore, the Muslim Brotherhood does not represent the true ideas of Islam. In our collective, many of us are Muslim, yet we fight against the corruption in society and the injustice that comes with it.”