CAIRO: Egypts Muslim Brotherhood on Friday criticised US Secretary of State John Kerry for saying the Egyptian military had been restoring democracy when it toppled president Mohamed Morsi.
We totally reject these statements and we are very disappointed in them, said Mohamed Ali Bishr, a senior brotherhood leader and a minister in Morsi's former government.
The United States is a country that speaks of democracy and human rights and they say something like that. I hope that they rethink their position and correct it, he told Reuters.
Morsi, a Brotherhood official who became Egypts first freely-elected leader in June 2012, was ousted on July 3 and replaced by an army-backed government.
The United States has avoided calling his removal a coup.
On Thursday, in the strongest words of US support yet for the new leadership, Kerry said the Egyptian army had been restoring democracy when it toppled Morsi.
The military was asked to intervene by millions and millions of people, all of whom were afraid of a descent into chaos, into violence, he told a Pakistani TV channel. And the military did not take over, to the best of our judgment so - so far.
Bishr said the US position disregarded the will of the Egyptian people.
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