I see Hafez Salama is dead and the adoring tributes have started, but here is a fun fact about the man. On January 4th 1952 he led the burning of the Coptic Church in Suez and butchered two Copts. He was part of a splinter group from the Brotherhood called Shabab Mohamed.

Shabab Mohamed is a fascinating group and unfortunately hardly studied. Here is what I wrote about the group in my study of Egyptian Islamism:

The first major break in the ranks of the Muslim Brotherhood started at the end of the 1930’s and culminated in the establishment of a competitive group: Shabab Mohamed in 1940. The break received hardly any scholarly attention because the group did not survive after 1952.

But it sheds light on the major weakness of the Brotherhood’s methodology, which would lead first to Sayed Qutb’s serious reexamination and later the emergence of the Qutbist intellectual current.

The Youth of Mohamed’s criticism of the Brotherhood, while highlighting both the lack of internal shura and financial corruption, raised the thorny issue of Hassan El Banna’s acceptance of working under a regime that ruled by other than what God has revealed.

Its discourse, which formed the basis of the Jihadi formula twenty five years later, focused on the question of ruling with other than what God has revealed and the means of change rejecting political participation in a secular political system.

The group lasted until immediately after the 1952 revolution, when it was banned by President Gamal Abdel Nasser.

Later in life, Hafez Salama participated in the massacre of Copts in El Zawya El Hamra in 1981.
Of course he was never punished for his crimes and don't expect to read this in any of the glowing tributes he will receive.