Hamas movement denounces Egypt over Morsi detention

The Islamic Resistance Hamas Movement strongly slammed Egypt on Friday after a Cairo court ordered ousted President Mohamed Morsi be detained for questioning over suspected collaboration with the group, considering it "A suspicious attempt to indulge Hamas into a dishonest political battle". A hamas leading figure Dr. Salah Al-Bardawil said in a statement issued here on today commenting on the news that Hamas is a unique resistance movement and a national liberation movement and not a terrorist movement and is defending the dignity of the Arab and Islamic nation with Egypt on top against the Israeli permanent attacks. " What is happening is presenting and depicting Hamas as an enemy to the Egyptian people and an attempt to issue a legislation to prosecute all proved contacting it, Hamas , said Al-Bardawil , stressing meantime that such a matter is strongly denounced and is a naive attempt to put facts upside down . "It is also a deviation of the compass from the real enemy that threatens the Egyptian people and the nation," said Dr. Salah Al-Bardawil . The Hamas leading figure has reaffirmed that hamas has and will and don't interfere in Egypt's internal crisis and regretted the way of dealing with Hamas which "All the Egyptian people really know that it, Hamas , is a thorn in the throat of the , Israeli , occupation". Al Bardawil strongly denied any relationship for "Hamas"  to Wadi Al-Natrun prison , saying: "fabrication which was released on the subject of prisons is completely null and void noting that no one of the sons of" Hamas "were in the prison in which President Mohamed Morsi,was detained and it has not been proved that a member of "Hamas " has  any relationship with this file." For his part, Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said in a similar statement,  "Hamas condemns this move since it is based on the premise that the Hamas movement is hostile." "This is a dangerous development, which confirms that the current powers in Egypt are giving up on national causes and even using these issues to deal with other parties -- first among them the Palestinian cause," he added. Elaborating Abu Zuhri said, "We call on the Arab League to uphold its responsibilities in the wake of these dangerous developments, and also call on the Arab people to express their position in the face of this dangerous incitement against the Palestinian resistance and people." Morsi will be quizzed on whether he collaborated with Hamas in attacks on police stations and prison breaks in early 2011, in which the Islamist and other political inmates escaped during the revolt against strongman Hosni Mubarak, according to a Friday report in the Egyptian official Middle East News Agency (MENA). The alleged crimes are being investigated by a Cairo court that was tasked to determine how inmates broke out of a prison late January 2011, after accusations Morsi's Islamist group sought the help of the Hamas rulers of Gaza. Egypt's state prosecutor has ordered that ousted President Mohamed Mursi be detained for questioning over suspected collaboration with Hamas, official MENA news agency reported Friday