Egyptian Brotherhood split on using force as Sisi poised to rule

Egypt's presidential candidate and former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi gestures during an interview with Reuters in Cairo May 14, 2014. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

ALEXANDRIA Egypt (Reuters) - While the Muslim Brotherhood's old guard doggedly call for peaceful resistance from their Egyptian courtroom cages, some youth members are seriously considering forceful retaliation against a state crackdown on their movement.

Young activists - many of whom are on the run and rarely sleep in one place for long to evade capture - complain that top leaders have lost touch with reality and failed to provide direction since then army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ousted the Islamist group from power last year.