freshjiva
02-02-2011, 11:51 AM
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-01-27/muslim-brotherhood-could-win-in-egypt-protests-and-why-obama-shouldnt-worry/?cid=hp:mainpromo6
Fox News and other neoconservatives conveniently choose not to focus on these details regarding the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. Instead, they love breeding zombies of the American people by using the words "Muslim Brotherhood" to invoke images of terrorists who are out to get us all.
Some quotes from this article:
Technically illegal, [The Muslim Brotherhood] has an enormous social-welfare infrastructure that provides cheap education and health care. In Egypt’s unfair elections, it is always the only opposition that does well even against the heavily rigged odds.
The Egyptian Brotherhood renounced violence years ago, but its relative moderation has made it the target of extreme vilification by more radical Islamists. Al Qaeda’s leaders, Osama bin Laden and Ayman Zawahiri, started their political lives affiliated with the Brotherhood but both have denounced it for decades as too soft and a cat’s paw of Mubarak and America.
Many scholars of political Islam also judge the Brotherhood is the most reasonable face of Islamic politics in the Arab world today.
They should not be afraid of the Muslim Brotherhood. Living with it won’t be easy but it should not be seen as inevitably our enemy. We need not demonize it nor endorse it. In any case, Egyptians now will decide their fate and the role they want the Ikhwan to play in their future.
Fox News and other neoconservatives conveniently choose not to focus on these details regarding the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. Instead, they love breeding zombies of the American people by using the words "Muslim Brotherhood" to invoke images of terrorists who are out to get us all.
Some quotes from this article:
Technically illegal, [The Muslim Brotherhood] has an enormous social-welfare infrastructure that provides cheap education and health care. In Egypt’s unfair elections, it is always the only opposition that does well even against the heavily rigged odds.
The Egyptian Brotherhood renounced violence years ago, but its relative moderation has made it the target of extreme vilification by more radical Islamists. Al Qaeda’s leaders, Osama bin Laden and Ayman Zawahiri, started their political lives affiliated with the Brotherhood but both have denounced it for decades as too soft and a cat’s paw of Mubarak and America.
Many scholars of political Islam also judge the Brotherhood is the most reasonable face of Islamic politics in the Arab world today.
They should not be afraid of the Muslim Brotherhood. Living with it won’t be easy but it should not be seen as inevitably our enemy. We need not demonize it nor endorse it. In any case, Egyptians now will decide their fate and the role they want the Ikhwan to play in their future.