"The problem in the West is they are afraid from the Muslim Brotherhood because they know nothing about them”

Senior Hamas official Mahmoud Zahar said the Muslim Brotherhood was, "the most moderate organization, the most democratic organization, even more than the Western people," in a radio interview with Aaron Klein on WABC Radio New York on Sunday.

"Don't search for the devil," he said adding that "the problem in the West is they are afraid from the Muslim Brotherhood because they know nothing about them.”

In the interview, Zahar praised the Egyptian protests and said the Muslim Brotherhood will seek progressive democratic gains in the Egyptian parliament, "they are going to participate by one third of the number of the parliament." "This is the first step, but they are going to participate in the local councils in order to serve the people and to reconstruct what was destroyed by the corrupt systems."

Zahar indicated that the US "empire" will inevitably decline, "any state without morality will not survive. Morality is not only having money. Morality is having justice. You are not implementing the justice." "You are going sooner or later to suffer from the same problem when your power decreased and the power of others, for example, China, India, Japan, as your history (shows) becomes more supreme," he said.