(14.11.2013) Al-Monitor: What are the most important lessons learned from the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood to power, for both the Al-Nour Party and the political Islam movement in Egypt? Does [the Brotherhood’s] failure imply the failure of the Islamic project and a religious state?

Makhioun: I do not think that the Muslim Brotherhood and these practices represent the Islamic project or the Islamic movement in any way. Their affiliation with the Islamic movement is just a slogan. It is untrue and unfounded. Let’s not blame the Islamic movement for the Brotherhood’s mistakes.