An attack at a pro-Morsi protest in Cairo earlier this year (Twitter/@NewsBreaker & @Sommervillebbc).

The military-backed leaders of Egypt outlawed the state's strongest political movement following months of conflict with the government. 

The final straw was a suicide bombing at a police headquarters near Cairo. The 80-year-old Islamist group was blamed for the bombing, which claimed 16 lives. Another group named Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, however, claimed responsibility for the attack.

Since July, when the military removed the country's first democratically elected president Mohamed Morsi, the movement retaliated. Morsi was previously a Muslim Brotherhood leader.

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During the organization's protests, security forces killed hundreds of the Brotherhood's supporters. A large number of its leaders and thousands of its members have also been jailed.

The Muslim Brotherhood remains as it was," the leaders said in a statement. "It only knows violence as a tool."

Experts say the Egyptian government's crackdown is the most severe one of its kind in decades. The decision to name the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organizations forces hundreds of thousands of supporters to either denounce their movement or submit to prison.

The military now has the authority to violently overwhelm any of the political movement's protests and make it a crime to promote the Brotherhood through conversation.

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