Tarek al-Zumar

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Tarek al-Zumar is an Egyptian Islamist politician and the secretary-general of the Building and Development Party.{{Cite news|url=http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2013/06/28/tarek-el-zomor-elected-new-secretary-general-for-building-and-development-party/|title=Tarek El Zomor elected new secretary general for Building and Development party|work=Daily News Egypt|date=28 June 2013|accessdate=14 May 2014}} The party has a non-political wing named al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya. Al-Zumar was a member of Egyptian Islamic Jihad.{{Cite news|url=http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/101255/Egypt/Politics-/ElZomor-condemns-abduction-of-Nigerian-schoolgirls.aspx|title=El-Zomor condemns abduction of Nigerian schoolgirls|work=Ahram Online|date=14 May 2014|accessdate=14 May 2014}} His cousin is Aboud El Zomor, who was imprisoned along with him.

Al-Zumar was imprisoned in 1984 on suspicion of involvement in the assassination of Anwar Sadat and was released during the Egyptian Revolution of 2011.{{cite news |last1=Perry |first1=Tom |title=In free Egypt, Jihad leader says time for gun is over |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-egypt-islamist-militancy/in-free-egypt-jihad-leader-says-time-for-gun-is-over-idUSTRE72H62820110318 |work=Reuters |date=March 18, 2011}} Al-Zumar and his cousin received a hero's welcome from the Muslim Brotherhood when they were released from prison.{{cite news |last1=Watson |first1=Ian |last2=Fahmy |first2=Mohamed Fadel |title=Sadat's unrepentant killer aims for political future |url=http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/04/14/egypt.sadat.killer/index.html |work=CNN |date=April 14, 2011}}

On October 6, 2012, al-Zumar was invited to attend a speech by Mohamed Morsi on the anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, seen as one of Sadat's great accomplishments. His attendance overshadowed the content of Morsi's speech and offended many non-Brotherhood Egyptians.{{cite book |last1=Trager |first1=Eric |title=Arab Fall: How the Muslim Brotherhood Won and Lost Egypt in 891 Days |date=2016 |publisher=Georgetown University Press |page=167 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1g69zqg.15}}

On 14 July 2013 Egypt's prosecutor general Hisham Barakat ordered his assets to be frozen.{{Cite news|url=http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/asset-freeze-islamist-leaders-goes-action|title=Asset freeze for Islamist leaders goes into action|work=Egypt Independent|date=15 July 2013|accessdate=14 May 2014}} Afterwards, al-Zumar fled to Qatar.