Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood Wants Its 'Harlem Shake' Video Removed From YouTube

The 'Harlam Shake' meme, which involves one lone person dancing to an electronic music song by Baauer, before a group of people begin dancing when the song "drops," began in Australia earlier this year, but soon spread around the world.

Now even Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, the controversial Islamist group that is tied to Egyptian President Mohammad Morsi, has gotten in on the act — even if they now appear to regret it.

Ahmad al-Mogheer, "an active member in the Brotherhood’s online communities" according to Al Arabiya, has confirmed he is the bare-chested man in the video below.

In the video al-Mogheer and others wear "masks" with the faces of opposition group National Salvation Front, apparently mocking what the video calls “Salvation’s Last Dance.”

Al-Mogheer has also confirmed on his Twitter account that he has asked for the video to be removed from YouTube, reportedly adding that the video had "achieved its goal."

Unfortunately for Mogheer, while the video appears to have been removed from the account it was originally uploaded to, copies of the video are still circulating widely online.

The Harlem Shake appears to be unusually popular in Egypt, as evidenced by a large number of YouTube videos.

AFP notes that 70 people made a Harlem Shake video outside the Muslim Brotherhood's Cairo headquarters last week that included anti-Islamist chants, a new twist in a growing number of protests against Morsi's government. In another incident, four Egyptian students who filmed themselves in public in their underwear for a Harlem Shake video were arrested.