Behru JAn, you and I have different take on Egyptian crisis. I am following the events as they unfold. If you think that the Egyptian army is able to do away with MB by declaring them illegal, I have news for you Gamal Aboldnassar who was the Al Sisi of 1954, (head of the Armed forces) banned MB. Not only MB did not go away but came back an won the election. There is absolutely no political organization in Egypt that can come close to MB organization. Egyptian army is making the same mistake that Algerian army make some 12 years ago. Thousands of people have been killed following the Algerian army coup. There is no way there can be a democratic system in Egypt without the participation of the MB.
What is happening in Egypt is going to radicalize members of MB and that will not bode well for the democratic movement in the ME.
Safar jaan, I too am following the events as they unfold and I have no idea how declaring the MB illegal came into this equation at all. They may very well split the MB and declare the militant branch of it a terrorist group (as is the case with Hezbollah), but MB will not be dissolved because there's no reason to dissolve it or declare it illegal. By their own admission they only have one million members in a country of 80+ million people and even the 10's of thousands of protestors last week were not MB supporters, but supporters of a "democratically elected" president. That's number one.
Number two, the Brotherhood did go away under Nasser and did stay away for nearly 6 decades despite the rise of Islamism all over the region. The only thing that brought them to the forefront of Egyptian politics again was the will of the people (as a result of their denunciation of violence in the 70's), the political naivety of the Egyptian populace and the timeframe of the elections which did not allow other groups to organize. Those days are gone - the Egyptian populace is not as naïve as they were in 2011, they have been able to organize other groups and their will, the same will that brought MB to the forefront has now forced the MB to the gallows. The Tamarod youth movement for example has millions of members - by some accounts 10 times the member base of the MB and by their own account more than 20 times.
Number three, I have not heard the Algerian experience play into the Egyptian psyche or situation at all. Without a doubt, they're aware of what happened in Algeria, Turkey and Iran, but the latter two are the only ones that I have seen mentioned as models to emulate or avoid respectively. But all that aside, take Algeria's coup and their progress in the following two decades and compare it to Iran's demise in the last two decades (or the two decades immediately after IR's take-over). And please, when you do this comparison, keep in mind how rich Iran was in terms of natural resources, industrial base and skilled population in 1979 versus Algeria of 1991. Can you honestly tell me that this is even a choice that would warrant a second thought?! If you're concerned about the 100,000 or so lives lost in Algeria, please take into account the 1.0 million people who lost their lives in the Iran-Iraq war, the million people who have died on Iranian roads since, the 5 million people who have become addicts and may as well be dead and the over 2 million highly educated and highly skilled people that became victims of the brain-drain and tell me if we're keeping things in perspective.